An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Wildlife Crossings: Animals Survive with Bridges and Tunnels
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Henry Miller’s Free Association into the Surreal
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La Loba: Wild Woman, Luminous Wolf
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Vandana Shiva: Maintaining Biodiversity and the Seeds of Freedom
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African Garden Cities: Urbanization Without Planning for People
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WilderUtopia in 64 Languages
Chasing Ice: The New “Inconvenient Truth”
Arctic Melting Before Our Eyes - In his new film on the disappearance of Arctic glaciers, “Chasing Ice,” author, award-winning photographer and reformed climate-change denier James Balog used time-lapse photography to capture global warming in progress.
Read MoreEcological Urbanism
A City Green Re-Imagination - We must demand an ecological retrofitting of our urban environments to live together more efficiently, giving credence to community, allowing space for the open wild.
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Environmental Health Archive
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Vandana Shiva: Maintaining Biodiversity and the Seeds of Freedom
Posted on May 11, 2013 | No CommentsHistorically, farmers have stored, traded and shared choice seed from one season to the next. According to Dr. Vandana Shiva, this practice ended with the introduction of patented genetically engineered seeds. Saving seeds now exposes the farmer to costly fines and lawsuits for patent infringement and has resulted in many farmer suicides. -
Matthew Pallamary: Wolf’s Healing Advice for the Boston Bombings
Posted on April 24, 2013 | No CommentsMatthew Pallamary, Dorchester native and author of several fiction and non-fiction books on the South American indigenous perspective, examines healing from the collective shadow exemplified by the Boston Marathon bombings and managing the spirit of the "wolves within." -
Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Plantations Threaten US South
Posted on March 22, 2013 | No CommentsTell the USDA "NO WAY" on Genetically Engineered Trees! The USDA is accepting public comments on a request by GE tree company ArborGen to commercially sell hundreds of millions of freeze tolerant genetically engineered eucalyptus trees annually for vast plantations across Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. -
Turkey Day: The Seldom Answered Question of Self-Determination
Posted on November 22, 2012 | No CommentsFor that first Thanksgiving in 1621, Governor William Bradford sent “four men fowling” to provide for the feast for which a few dozen pilgrims and some hundred Native Americans would gather. For some reason, consumption of wild turkeys became customary on the day of thanks for North America. -
California’s Proposition 37: Labeling Monsanto’s War on Life
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 1 CommentYou are what you eat...but what if you don't know what you are eating? This November, Californians will vote on "the right to know" what is being eaten. As well, "The World According to Monsanto" looks at the risks of biotechnology to our environment and food supply. -
Vandana Shiva: Industrial Agriculture Destroys Life
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 1 CommentAt a time when industry has set its eyes on the superprofits to be harvested from seed monopolies through patented seeds and seeds engineered with toxic genes and genes for making crops resistant to herbicides, people are seeking food freedom through organic, nonindustrial food. -
Dietary Fasting: Detoxification, Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation – By Jack Eidt
Posted on June 19, 2012 | 4 CommentsWe are cut off from the healing calm of nature, we drive in gridlock inhaling carbon monoxide, and spend our leisure enclosed in a cold dark movie theater or dine at all-you-can-eat fried-food-extravaganzas. Hence, people often undertake a number of calorie-limiting diets and fasting regimes, which also may include connecting with the forests and oceans or communing with animals out in the wilds. -
Fukushima Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA and Beyond – Dr. Mark Sircus
Posted on June 7, 2012 | No CommentsRight after Chernobyl blew its top, Edward Teller said on the ABC Evening News in late April 1986, “The chances of a real calamity at a nuclear power station are infinitesimally small. But should it happen, the consequences are impossible to imagine.” Now after Japan's Fukushima disaster, radiation continues to spread across the Pacific to North America with unimaginable consequences. -
Chumash Healing With Spirit: A Tribute to Cecilia Garcia
Posted on May 26, 2012 | 1 CommentTo honor the soul transition of Chumash teacher and healer Cecilia Garcia, we share an article written by her and USC Professor Jim Adams on mind, body and spirit healing. -
Health Freedom Expo – Long Beach, CA – March 2nd-4th
Posted on February 27, 2012 | No CommentsThe Health Freedom Expo is a dynamic three-day event featuring the most prominent keynote speakers, 90+ informative lectures and interactive workshops and 200+ exhibitors showcasing the finest in healthcare products and introducing cutting-edge discoveries in natural health. -
Self-Healing with Chumash Native Plant Medicine
Posted on October 21, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe late Cecilia Garcia taught Chumash traditional spirit healing with prayers, laughter, dreaming, herbal medicines and aromatherapy, leading to mending the body's physical processes. -
Dr. Cousens: Holistic Approach to Overcoming Radiation
Posted on April 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsPersonal and collective action items to protect ourselves from the ongoing worldwide radiation pollution from Gabriel Cousens MD. -
Impending Nuclear Storm: News Beyond Fukushima – 6 April 2011
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThreats: Mounting stresses on the containment structures filled with radioactive cooling water made vulnerable to rupture; explosions from the release of hydrogen and oxygen from seawater, and fuel rods continuing to melt. -
Danger and Risk from Nuclear Fission Products
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 3 CommentsSome believe low, cumulative doses of radiation from dietary exposures are one-hundred to one-thousand times more dangerous than brief, high exposures as in the case of atomic bomb blasts or x-rays. It is known, in fact, that exposure to nuclear fission products impair the body’s defenses against cancer by depleting it of protective enzymes such as superoxide dismutase. -
Human Hubris Fuels Nuclear Catastrophe
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 3 CommentsFour of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth. Fire burns out of control at Reactor No. 4's pool of spent nuclear fuel, with six spent fuel pools at risk, all sites too hot to deal with. -
Japanese Nuclear Disaster Worsens
Posted on March 14, 2011 | 1 CommentJapanese officials have admitted that nuclear rods inside three of the Fukushima reactors are melting. -
Radiation Fallout Detoxification Protocols
Posted on March 14, 2011 | 2 CommentsRadioactive fallout from the three melting Japanese nuclear reactors will reach the US in about a week, necessitating health protocols. -
Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Disaster Unfolds
Posted on March 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsJapan's earthquake and tsunami have triggered meltdowns at several nuclear reactors, increased radiation levels, evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people in the face of radiation exposures already being reported. -
World’s Dirtiest Oil – Alberta Tar Sands
Posted on March 8, 2011 | 12 CommentsThe world's dirtiest oil is produced by strip mining the Athabascan Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada, destroying an area of Northern Boreal forest and wetlands the size of Florida, with toxic settling ponds that pollute rivers fished by First Nations people, requiring pipelines to the Gulf Coast and hauling routes through the Northern Rocky Mountains. -
Stop Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Coup Over Organics – By Ronnie Cummins
Posted on February 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto's Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation's 25,000 organic farms and ranches, USA's organic consumers and producers are losing the battle to Monsanto's dominance over Obama's corporate-friendly USDA. -
Overcoming Our Carcinogenic Industrialized Society
Posted on February 4, 2011 | 1 CommentAs the President's Cancer Panel report says, about 41 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some time in their lives, and some 21 percent will die of it. In the last few years "[a] growing body of research documents a myriad established and suspected environmental factors linked to genetic, immune, and endocrine [hormonal] dysfunction that can lead to cancer and other diseases." -
Re-envisioning LA Sprawl – Multi-Modal, Multi-Layered, Costing Multi-Billions – By Jack Eidt
Posted on October 26, 2010 | 2 CommentsOne method to rescue this unsustainable, fossil-fuel-addicted, disease-inducing polluted mega-metropolis from its sterile streetscape of cars, exhaust, and non-descript sidewalk-life, is to provide alternative transportation that cuts out the need for parking and forces people to walk. -
Genetically Modified Foods – Weird Science Harming Health – By Jack Eidt
Posted on October 5, 2010 | 2 CommentsShopping in grocery stores without understanding origins and processes involved in food production can be hazardous to your health. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) were originally allowed into our foods without labeling despite US Food and Drug Administration scientists warning that they could create unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects, including allergens, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems. -
Big Oil Burns Money to Stop Climate Legislation – By Jack Eidt
Posted on September 8, 2010 | 1 CommentCalifornia's Proposition 23 pits two Texas oil companies, Valero and Tesoro, billionaire-brothers Koch Industries, and a host of fossil fuel industry supporters, aiming to "suspend the implementation" of the state's landmark global warming legislation, AB 32. -
BP Dead-Zone in the Gulf, Delta Mass Fish-Kill
Posted on August 24, 2010 | No CommentsKeep in mind the ongoing scientific research regarding the undersea plume of oil and dissolved methane gas in the Gulf of Mexico from 3,200 to 4,300 feet below the surface. Studies estimated it more than a mile wide, 650 feet thick and at least 35 kilometers (22 miles) long, but probably longer, as the researchers had to break off because of Hurricane Alex.
