Model Cities: Corporatocracy Seeks Submissive Wild For True Love – By Jack Eidt
Do Forests Drink Water Meant for Humans? By Jack Eidt
Santa Ana Mountains: Vestige of Wild Coastal Southern California
San Onofre Shake Rattle and Leak: A Life Epicentric
Sustainable Biofuels? From Agro-Fueled Land Conflicts to Algae – By Jack Eidt
Model Cities: Corporatocracy Seeks Submissive Wild For True Love – By Jack EidtNeo-colonialism in Honduras: Paul Romer's Charter Cities movement advocates suspension of sovereignty and democracy in the service of unfettered capitalism. Resistance members and indigenous and labor organizations prepare to fight this libertarian dream on the Coast of Trujillo.
Read More Do Forests Drink Water Meant for Humans? By Jack EidtWesleyan University academics argue "unnatural" forests, resulting from fire suppression policies, deplete water supplies and should be cut back. We disagree.
Read More Santa Ana Mountains: Vestige of Wild Coastal Southern CaliforniaFollowing the footsteps of Willis E. Pequegnat, a biologist from the 1930s who explored the wild Santa Ana Mountains in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties, this video field journal logs the wonders and threats to this thriving resource.
Read More San Onofre Shake Rattle and Leak: A Life EpicentricEdison estimates a $65 million cost to replace the failed steam generators, with an overall $100 million associated losses. Edison has already backed off assertions of a June opening, due to lingering safety concerns. Meanwhile, an earthquake study moves forward, albeit with less outside oversight than that of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.
Read More Sustainable Biofuels? From Agro-Fueled Land Conflicts to Algae – By Jack EidtCan scientists engineer a biofuel that will replace the environmental and climate destroying and evermore expensive fossil fuels central to the functioning of our urbanized civilization? The answer is no and yes.
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Caribbean Garífuna: Disguised Warriors Dance WanaraguaThe masked dance ritual called Wanaragua, takes place as part of the New Year's celebration among the Garífuna villages on the Caribbean Coast of Central America.
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Hello Urbanism: Southern California Sprawl Grows UpSouthern California's new Sustainable Communities Strategy plan posits that as a region, we have to grow up, not out. That doesn't mean Hong Kong skyscrapers, but more apartments near light-rail stations and vibrant mixed-use areas like the ones in downtown Pasadena.
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Ecological Urbanism: A City Green Re-Imagination – By Jack EidtWe must view the fragility of the planet, the disaster of our resource addiction, the warming of the earth's atmosphere as an immune response to our daily environmental mis-stepping, a call for a re-conceptualization of our cities. We must demand a retrofitting of our urban environments to live together more efficiently, giving credence to community, allowing space for the open wild in us and them.
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Panama Hydroelectric “Clean Energy”: Village of the DammedHuge new hydroelectric dam projects now underway call for damming pristine rivers and flooding virgin rainforest, home of the Ngäbe People. The Panamanian government deems it vital for economic growth, with multinational corporations cashing in. Even the UN has awarded carbon credits predicated on "sustainably" produced energy.
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Tow-Truck Driver Philosophy – By Jerry CollamerYesterday, I needed a tow. A long tow. Requiring me to ride-along to the mechanic in the cab of the tow truck. A very nice tow-truck.
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