Perhaps no historical location in Orange County reflects more our diverse and complex roots than Mission San Juan Capistrano, established in 1776 by Junipero Serra. OC World host Joone Kim-Lopez interviews Executive Director Mechelle Lawrence Adams to learn more about this extraordinary place and how the focus now turns to an energetic leader seeking to shape the role of the Mission in the 21st Century.
OC World Host Joone Kim-Lopez explores groundwater issues with Michel Markus, General Manger of the Orange County Water District, and Cathy Green, President OCWD Board of Directors. The system is the world’s largest purification system for indirect potable reuse, providing up to 130 million gallons of water per day to roughly 2.5 million residents in north and central Orange County. It takes highly treated wastewater from the Sanitation District and purifies it. Through a three-step process of micro filtration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet light with hydrogen peroxide.
OC World Host Joone Kim-Lopez interviews Andrew Yang, former 2020 presidential election candidate and one of the Founders of the new Forward Party. Part 1 Part 2
OC World YouTube Rick Reiff, Orange County Business Journal OC World YouTube Editor-at-Large Interviews Chapman University Professors Joel Kotkin & Marshall Toplansky "The Coming of the Neo-Feudalism”
OC World host Joone Kim-Lopez interviews giant-screen filmmaker Greg MacGillivray about his new book, Five Hundred Summer Stories: A Life in IMAX®, and about a life dedicated to giving his audience an experience that transforms how they see the world and themselves. As the first documentary filmmaker to earn $1 billion in ticket sales, his career is a storyteller that has led to a place of purpose and inspiration.
OC World host Joone Kim-Lopez Interviews Gustavo Arellano, LA Times Reporter / Columnist
OC World host Joone Kim-Lopez interviews Valerie Amezcua, the first woman to be elected as mayor in the City of Santa Ana’s 153-year history. Amezcua and her family have an extensive history in the City, and in this exclusive interview she discusses such issues as homelessness, police relations and public safety, and more.
He has been called the greatest living art forger in the world. Arrested as an art forger in 1989, Southern California resident Tony Tetro became in 1991 the only living American artist slapped with a court order mandating that he clearly sign his name to the back of every work he creates, so they can’ be passed off as originals and sold for outrageous sums of money to unwary art collectors. With a new book about his life recently published, and a documentary in the works, Tetro and his co-author Giampiero Ambrosi discuss the life of an art forger.
OC World Producer Dr. Manuel Gómez interviews artist Celia Herrera Rodriguez, whose work reflects a full generation of Chicano, Native American, and Mexican identities. Rather than merely reflecting the tensions and moods of our times, her work reveals a long rad to ancestral memories that help some indigenous peoples find their way back home.
Perhaps one of the more innovated ways for California to reach its goal of 100 percent clean-energy future is to educate its’ future workforce—college students—on sound sustainability practices and advancements. At least, that’s the theory of two Chapman University professors who received $5 million seed funding from the state to launch the inaugural Orange County Sustainability Decathlon.
