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• Model Cities: Corporatocracy Seeks Submissive Wild For True Love – By Jack Eidt
  15 May 2012 10:58 AM | No Comments

  Neo-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.

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• Do Forests Drink Water Meant for Humans? By Jack Eidt
  09 May 2012 8:00 AM | 1 Comment

  Wesleyan University academics argue "unnatural" forests, resulting from fire suppression policies, deplete water supplies and should be cut back. We disagree.

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• Santa Ana Mountains: Vestige of Wild Coastal Southern California
  05 May 2012 8:00 AM | No Comments

  Following 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.

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• San Onofre Shake Rattle and Leak: A Life Epicentric
  04 May 2012 7:40 PM | No Comments

  Edison 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.

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• Sustainable Biofuels? From Agro-Fueled Land Conflicts to Algae – By Jack Eidt
  28 April 2012 8:00 AM | 1 Comment

  Can 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 Wanaragua
  27 April 2012 8:00 AM | 1 Comment

  The 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 Up
  18 April 2012 8:00 AM | 1 Comment

  Southern 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 Eidt
  17 April 2012 9:00 AM | No Comments

  We 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 Dammed
  13 April 2012 7:43 PM | No Comments

  Huge 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 Collamer
  13 April 2012 8:00 AM | No Comments

  Yesterday, 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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