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Airs: Sunday 11:00 AM- 11:30 AM
Host: Maria Hinojosa
Produced by: NPR
Link: Latino USA
E-mail: lusa@www.utexas.edu


This Week on Latino USA

Building a Green Economy

Latino USA contributor Lily Percy reports on how the Sustainable South Bronx organization helps people out of poverty by finding them living wage, green-collar jobs.

Nora Vargas

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks to Nora Vargas, executive director of the Latino Issues Forum of California to discuss ways in which the Latino community can become more green.

Go Green East Harlem Cookbook

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer about his, Go Green East Harlem cookbook.

Commentary: Michele Serros

Commentator Michele Serros shares how her family was living green long before it was considered trendy.

Latino USA, Sundays from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM on WUSF 89.7(2), your NPR Station.


Show Description and Host Information

Maria Hinojosa

Latino influences and contributions continue to have an increasingly important impact on the evolving identity, life, and reality of the U.S. Latino USA acts as a forum for connections and reflects the experience of a changing population from a Latino viewpoint. Maria Hinojosa, urban affairs correspondent for CNN, author of Raising Raul (Viking Press, 1999) and frequent lecturer hosts this forum.