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Designing Healthy Communities: PBS Series To Air On KRWG-TV And CLC-TV As Part Of Las Cruces Effort

  

  As part of the City of Las Cruces’ Plan4LasCruces community engagement, KRWG-TV and CLC-TV will air the 4-part PBS TV series, “Designing Healthy Communities.” The series will be available for viewing on KRWG-TV.  It will also air on CLC-TV (Comcast cable channel 20) and streamed on CLCTV.COM.

"Designing Healthy Communities" narrator Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, looks at the impact our built environment has on key public health indices – obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression.

Dr. Jackson connects bad community design with burgeoning health costs, then analyzes and illustrates what citizens are doing about this urgent crisis by looking upstream for innovative solutions.

The KRWG-TV schedule is as follows:

Part 1-Retrofitting Suburbs:  Sunday, 8/14-4pm

Part 2-Rebuilding Places of the Heart:  Sunday, 8/14-5pm

Part 3-Social Policies in Concrete:  Sunday, 8/21, 4pm

Part 4-Searching for Shangri-La:  Sunday, 8/21, 5pm

The CLC-TV schedule is as follows:

Each hour-long segment will air at 8 p.m. MDT on consecutive Thursdays.

Episode 1 - Thursday, July 28: Retrofitting Suburbs

Episode 2 – Thursday, Aug. 4: Rebuilding Places of the Heart

Episode 3 – Thursday, Aug. 11: Social Policies in Concrete

Episode 4 – Thursday, Aug. 18: Searching for Shangri-La

In addition, each segment will air and stream various times throughout the week. 

For more information, contact Brian Byrd with the City of Las Cruces at 575-528-3209 orbbyrd@las-cruces.org