An Array of Utopian Flowers
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What Every SoCal Beach Town Suffers: Parking
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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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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 impacts Archive
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Keystone XL Pipeline: 40 SoCal Groups Call for Environmental Rethink
Posted on April 16, 2013 | 3 CommentsThe State Department has issued a flawed environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that ignores its far-reaching impacts on climate and our environment. Tar Sands Action Southern California has prepared a commentary on behalf of 40 groups to be submitted to the State Department demanding a comprehensive reassessment of the significant and irreversible impacts on the environment not taken into account in the draft report released on March 1st. Make your comment by April 22nd! -
Trestles Beach: National Treasure or Toll Road Off-Ramp?
Posted on March 12, 2013 | 1 CommentWorld-renowned San Onofre and Trestles have been synonymous with California surfing since the 1930s. A movement to pave over the park and beach with a toll road was rejected by in 2008. We now have the opportunity to have it recognized for its historical contributions by being listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and stop that toll road project for good. -
Vision of Sustainable Mobility? High-Speed Rail Challenges California – By Jack Eidt
Posted on September 17, 2012 | 3 CommentsDespite an eventual pricetag of $68 billion and numerous engineering, environmental and political challenges, the California bullet train offers a promising vision of sustainable mobility, posing less impacts and competitive costs than expanding airports and freeways. -
Extreme Water: Tapping the California Desert to Feed Growth Addiction?
Posted on May 19, 2012 | 1 CommentCadiz Inc potentially lucrative groundwater mining proposal for the Mojave Desert intends to water lawns and pools for suburban Southern California at the expense of taxpayers and ultimately the desert ecosystem. -
Panama Hydroelectric “Clean Energy”: Village of the Dammed
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsHuge 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. -
Shale Gas Boom Triggers Poisoned-Water Gold Rush
Posted on February 25, 2012 | 1 CommentThe dirty water produced from fracking has triggered a gold rush among water-treatment companies, with the private water industry profiting while downplaying its environmental, public health and economic risks. -
Tar Sands Documentary: White Water, Black Gold
Posted on October 27, 2011 | 2 CommentsCanada is the number one oil supplier to the US and is pushing to increase that role using the Alberta Tar Sands, slated to mine and strip an area of Boreal Forest the size of Florida, impacting land resources and indigenous communities, producing bitumen-crude that will foul the global climate. -
Collamer: Foreclosing on Nature
Posted on September 29, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe human commodification of nature often overlooks small, seeming inconsequential values, someday leading to the earth's foreclosure and unavoidable eviction. -
Dam, You’re One Ugly Hurdle…
Posted on September 29, 2011 | No CommentsGo ask any fish how it feels to have your road home permanently blocked by a "clean" "green" "renewable" "low-cost" hydroelectric dam. -
Bolivia: Indigenous Protesters March Against Amazon Superhighway
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 5 CommentsA highway to facilitate traffic from Brazil through Bolivia is to bisect an enormous tropical national park, severely impacting self-governed indigenous communities. No regulations exist for consulting these communities where initiatives affect their territories. They are marching for 35 days from the Amazon jungle to La Paz, the capital, in protest. -
Finland’s Nuclear Waste: 100,000 Years of Poison Into Eternity
Posted on August 18, 2011 | 1 CommentInto Eternity is a feature documentary film by Danish director Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the plan to construct Onkalo Waste Repository deep underground, designed to last 100,000 years, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant. -
Fracking Study: Contamination Happens
Posted on August 11, 2011 | 5 CommentsFor years the drilling industry has insisted there has never been a proven case in which hydraulic fracturing, or natural gas fracking, has led to contamination of drinking water. Now Environmental Working Group has unearthed a 24-year-old case study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that unequivocally says such contamination has occurred. -
Newhall Ranch: Feds OK Massive Flood Plain Development
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe US Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers resolved their differences and advanced one of the largest sprawling developments ever contemplated in California on 12,000 acres along the Santa Clara River in northwest Los Angeles County. Newhall Ranch would create a city for 60,000 on a six-mile stretch of the wild, open, agricultural, free-flowing river flood plain. -
Honduras: Patuca River Dams Threaten Indigenous Survival
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 5 CommentsThe Moskitia is the largest, most biodiverse expanse of tropical wilderness north of the Amazon Basin – and the Indigenous Peoples who live there are determined to keep it that way. Unfortunately, no greater threat exists to the natural wealth hidden in the "Mesoamerican Biological Corridor" than the gigantic, transnational Patuca II, IIA, and III Dams. -
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. -
China’s Utopian-Growth Overdose: Cities for Nobody
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 2 CommentsChina's planned mega-city for 42 million people has created vacant rows of overpriced high rise apartments and office buildings, sprawling malls without tenants or shoppers, freeways and transit lines constructed for no one. -
Natural Gas Fracking: Environmental Backlash Grows
Posted on March 8, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" as a method for natural gas drilling investigated recently by ProPublica and displayed in the documentary film Gasland, have led to a nationwide backlash against this dangerous fossil fuel touted as a "clean burning alternative to oil." -
Nature: Extreme Weather Linked to Greenhouse Gas Levels
Posted on February 17, 2011 | 4 CommentsTwo Studies in the Journal of Nature show that climate warming is responsible for extreme weather events, directly linked with rising greenhouse gas levels. -
ProPublica: EPA to Study Pollution from Natural Gas Fracking
Posted on February 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe EPA wants to study impacts on drinking water of each stage involved in hydraulic fracturing, where drillers mix water with chemicals and sand and inject the fluid into wells to release oil or natural gas. -
Destructive Progress: Brazil-Peru Transoceanic Highway – By Jack Eidt
Posted on November 3, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe 2011 completion of the 3,400-mile Transoceanic Highway nears, connecting the Amazonian state of Acre in Brazil with the southern Pacific Coast of Peru.
