Comments for WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com coexisting into the great unknown Sun, 19 May 2013 15:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Adams on Kerouac: The Buddha’s First Noble Truth Unveiled at Big Sur by Henry Miller's Free Association into the Surreal | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/performance/sound/adams-on-kerouac-the-buddhas-first-noble-truth-unveiled-at-big-sur/#comment-62637 Henry Miller's Free Association into the Surreal | WilderUtopia.com Sun, 19 May 2013 15:45:24 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4017#comment-62637 [...] From George Wickes in the Paris Review: Championed by critics and artists, venerated by pilgrims, emulated by beatniks, he is above everything else a culture hero—or villain, to those who see him as a menace to law and order. He might even be described as a folk hero: hobo, prophet, and exile, the Brooklyn boy who went to Paris when everyone else was going home, the starving bohemian enduring the plight of the creative artist in America, and in latter years the sage of Big Sur. [...]

]]> Comment on Suburban Sprawl: Serpentine Sameness from the Skies by Wildlife Crossings: Animals Survive with Bridges and Tunnels | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/land/suburban-sprawl-sameness-from-the-skies/#comment-62624 Wildlife Crossings: Animals Survive with Bridges and Tunnels | WilderUtopia.com Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:24 +0000 http://wilderutopia.com/?p=351#comment-62624 [...] No Room to Run: The Confining Nature of Sprawl - Photo By Christoph Gielen [...]

]]> Comment on The Art of Bill Ohrmann: Montana Rancher, Voice for the Wild by Jack Eidt http://www.wilderutopia.com/landscape/urban-art/art-of-bill-ohrmann-gentle-rancher-voice-for-the-wild/#comment-59980 Jack Eidt Mon, 13 May 2013 04:23:36 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=6127#comment-59980 Thanks, John. I stopped by in March on the advice of my cousin from Niarada, and was really inspired by your parents. I love Bill’s work and got a good laugh out of his attitude. Thanks for helping him put out his beautiful creations!

Jack

]]> Comment on The Art of Bill Ohrmann: Montana Rancher, Voice for the Wild by John Ohrmann http://www.wilderutopia.com/landscape/urban-art/art-of-bill-ohrmann-gentle-rancher-voice-for-the-wild/#comment-59859 John Ohrmann Sun, 12 May 2013 22:47:55 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=6127#comment-59859 I am Bill Ohrmann’s son, John, and periodically I google my Dad’s name to see if there is any new press about him that we haven’t heard about. Which is how I came across your site. Thank you for your inclusion of my Dad. I especially appreciate that you used Erica Fredrickson’s piece from the Indy. Of the many articles that have been written about him recently, I think she ‘got’ him best of all.

]]> Comment on Dietary Fasting: Detoxification, Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation – By Jack Eidt by www.pkv-beratung.org http://www.wilderutopia.com/health/dietary-fasting-detoxification-spirit-healing-and-rejuvenation-by-jack-eidt/#comment-59315 www.pkv-beratung.org Sat, 11 May 2013 13:12:35 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=3753#comment-59315 Thanks for your personal marvelous posting!
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]]> Comment on Vandana Shiva: Industrial Agriculture Destroys Life by Vandana Shiva: Maintaining Biodiversity with Seeds of Freedom | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/health/vandana-shiva-industrial-agriculture-destroys-life/#comment-59311 Vandana Shiva: Maintaining Biodiversity with Seeds of Freedom | WilderUtopia.com Sat, 11 May 2013 13:01:07 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4282#comment-59311 [...] concentrated control over the seed sector in India as well as across the world is very worrying. This is what connects farmers’ suicides in [...]

]]> Comment on Lady Lazarus: The Hurt Imagination of Sylvia Plath by Rhonda http://www.wilderutopia.com/performance/literary/lady-lazarus-the-hurt-imagination-of-sylvia-plath/#comment-58466 Rhonda Thu, 09 May 2013 15:05:55 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=6235#comment-58466 “Dying is an art
Like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real”

Thanks for this, I have always loved Ms Plath. And Ms. Sexton, as well.

]]> Comment on Permaculture: Land-Based System of Human Rewilding by Earth Sheltered Homes: Energy-Efficient, Living With the Land | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/permaculture-land-based-system-of-human-rewilding/#comment-57774 Earth Sheltered Homes: Energy-Efficient, Living With the Land | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 07 May 2013 22:10:04 +0000 http://wilderutopia.com/?p=906#comment-57774 [...] Sheltered Homes are] one part of a low-impact or permaculture approach to life. This is about living in harmony with both the natural world and ourselves, doing [...]

]]> Comment on China’s Urbanizing Utopia: Ghost Cities and Propaganda Theme Parks by African Garden Cities: Urbanization Without Planning for People | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/land/chinas-urbanizing-utopia-ghost-cities-and-propaganda-theme-parks/#comment-57764 African Garden Cities: Urbanization Without Planning for People | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 07 May 2013 18:28:29 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4894#comment-57764 [...] and a need to provide mixed-use buildings in the outskirts of Luanda, the capital city. Today, this development is empty. The neighboring slum dwellers are unable to afford the expensive apartments, and better-off [...]

]]> Comment on China’s Utopian-Growth Overdose: Cities for Nobody by Chinese Mega-Cities Contrasted with Calvino's 'Invisible Cities" | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/land/chinas-utopian-growth-overdose-cities-for-nobody/#comment-57733 Chinese Mega-Cities Contrasted with Calvino's 'Invisible Cities" | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 07 May 2013 09:34:25 +0000 http://wilderutopia.com/?p=744#comment-57733 [...] The rapid industrialization of China includes proliferation of megacities, including Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu and Wuhan. In all, 43 cities have populations of one-million-plus today, with a projected 221 by 2025, a mass migration of millions from the impoverished Chinese countryside, leading to significant urban social and environmental problems. [...]

]]> Comment on Agricultural Urbanism: Designing Cities as Edible Ecosystems by Permaculture: A Land-Based System of Human Rewilding | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/agricultural-urbanism-designing-cities-as-edible-ecosystems/#comment-57679 Permaculture: A Land-Based System of Human Rewilding | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 07 May 2013 07:54:03 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4751#comment-57679 [...] Agricultural Urbanism: Designing Cities as Edible Ecosystems [...]

]]> Comment on Earthship Biotecture: Self-Sufficient, Off-the-Grid Communities by Earth Sheltered Homes: Energy-Efficient, Living With the Land | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/earthship-biotecture-self-sufficient-off-the-grid-communities/#comment-57628 Earth Sheltered Homes: Energy-Efficient, Living With the Land | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 07 May 2013 00:03:44 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4495#comment-57628 [...] the roof of a structure. Alternative builders craft a type of in-hill structure known as an Earthship. In Earthship construction, tires rammed with earth are used as structural materials for three of [...]

]]> Comment on Chasing Ice: The New “Inconvenient Truth” – Arctic Melting Before Our Eyes by Robert Haw: Overcoming Climate Disaster with a Carbon Tax | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/climate/chasing-ice-capturing-climate-change-in-the-arctic/#comment-57150 Robert Haw: Overcoming Climate Disaster with a Carbon Tax | WilderUtopia.com Sat, 04 May 2013 01:58:46 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4796#comment-57150 [...] wealth is illusory because full-cost accounting hasn’t been practiced – for example the high cost on the biosphere of burning coal, oil and gas. Most of us are cost-conscious in making decisions, [...]

]]> Comment on Scary Nuke News: San Onofre Wants Live Tube-Rupture Experiment by Edison's Reef: A Not So Glowing Report | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/nuclear-energy/scary-nuke-news-san-onofre-wants-live-tube-rupture-experiment/#comment-55761 Edison's Reef: A Not So Glowing Report | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:44:31 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=5990#comment-55761 [...] Scary Nuke News: San Onofre Wants Live Tube-Rupture Experiment [...]

]]> Comment on Scariest Workplace in the USA, Shut Down, Still Scary – By Jerry Collamer by Edison's Reef: A Not So Glowing Report | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/politics/blond-county/scariest-workplace-in-the-usa-shut-down-still-scary-by-jerry-collamer/#comment-55760 Edison's Reef: A Not So Glowing Report | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:42:08 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4310#comment-55760 [...] Scariest Workplace in the USA, Shut Down, Still Scary – By Jerry Collamer [...]

]]> Comment on Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen Dance the Living Gods of Haiti by Haitian Vodou: Summoning the Spirits | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/performance/film/maya-deren-divine-horsemen-dance-the-living-gods-of-haiti/#comment-55738 Haitian Vodou: Summoning the Spirits | WilderUtopia.com Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:58 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=3684#comment-55738 [...] Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti explores the Vodou religion of Haiti, filmed by Maya Deren during 1947-1951, and edited posthumously [...]

]]> Comment on Emily Dickinson: A Mystic of Stillness Who Mocked Heaven by Lady Lazarus: The Hurt Imagination of Sylvia Plath | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/performance/literary/emily-dickinson-a-mystic-of-stillness-who-mocked-heaven/#comment-53713 Lady Lazarus: The Hurt Imagination of Sylvia Plath | WilderUtopia.com Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:01:47 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4985#comment-53713 [...] to contemporaries such as Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and W.D. Snodgrass, with influence from Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce and Henry James. She colored her “confessions” with [...]

]]> Comment on Matt Pallamary: Guaraní Shaman’s Quest for “Land Without Evil” by Matthew Pallamary: Wolf's Healing Advice for the Boston Bombings | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/performance/literary/matt-pallamary-guarani-shamans-quest-for-land-without-evil/#comment-53265 Matthew Pallamary: Wolf's Healing Advice for the Boston Bombings | WilderUtopia.com Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:02:19 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4847#comment-53265 [...] Book Award for mainstream fiction and was chosen as a Reading Group Choices selection. It has been adapted into a full-length stage and sky show by Austin’s Sky Candy and Agent Red, directed by Agent Red and Sky Candy co-founder and Artistic [...]

]]> Comment on Dear Mr. President, Let’s Move Forward on Climate by Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/politics/dear-mr-president-lets-move-forward-on-climate/#comment-52311 Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:42:18 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=5747#comment-52311 [...] of 100 groups from across Southern California led 1,200 people into the streets of downtown LA demanding the President act today to solve the climate crisis. The same day, tens of thousands of people did the same across the [...]

]]> Comment on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Urban Approaches to Zero Waste by Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/reduce-reuse-recycle-urban-approaches-to-zero-waste/#comment-52309 Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:37:52 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=3220#comment-52309 [...] must learn that our trash is a resource, and reduce our needs, reuse what we can, and recycle the rest for a cleaner tomorrow. Consider the [...]

]]> Comment on Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild by Earth Day Sustainability Movement http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/earth-day-sustainability-movement-heals-humanity-in-the-wild/#comment-52308 Earth Day Sustainability Movement Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:34:24 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=6197#comment-52308 [...] Jack Eidt Wilderutopia.com [...]

]]> Comment on Dietary Fasting: Detoxification, Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation – By Jack Eidt by Earth Day Sustainability Movement http://www.wilderutopia.com/health/dietary-fasting-detoxification-spirit-healing-and-rejuvenation-by-jack-eidt/#comment-52306 Earth Day Sustainability Movement Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:34:08 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=3753#comment-52306 [...] trail of the deer, to the place unmarked. Consider Biblical accounts of Moses, Elijah, and Jesus fasting for 40 days and nights in mountain and desert wilderness, facing thirst, hunger, wild animals and other temptations. As [...]

]]> Comment on Vision of Sustainable Mobility? High-Speed Rail Challenges California – By Jack Eidt by Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/transportation-sustainability/vision-of-sustainable-mobility-high-speed-rail-challenges-california-by-jack-eidt/#comment-52253 Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:33:34 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=4143#comment-52253 [...] projects like long-distance high-speed rail, despite financial and environmental challenges, should be [...]

]]> Comment on Life and Death: Lakota Spiritual Practice by Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/traditions/life-and-death-lakota-spiritual-practice/#comment-52252 Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:29:06 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=1207#comment-52252 [...] and desert wilderness, facing thirst, hunger, wild animals and other temptations. As well, the traditional Native American Vision Quest encourages deep communion with the fundamental forces and spiritual energies of creation, where [...]

]]> Comment on Dietary Fasting: Detoxification, Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation – By Jack Eidt by Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com http://www.wilderutopia.com/health/dietary-fasting-detoxification-spirit-healing-and-rejuvenation-by-jack-eidt/#comment-52251 Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild | WilderUtopia.com Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:26:49 +0000 http://www.wilderutopia.com/?p=3753#comment-52251 [...] trail of the deer, to the place unmarked. Consider Biblical accounts of Moses, Elijah, and Jesus fasting for 40 days and nights in mountain and desert wilderness, facing thirst, hunger, wild animals and other temptations. As [...]

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