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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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.
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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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indigenous peoples Archive
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Idle No More: Round Dance for Mother Earth
Posted on February 4, 2013 | 2 CommentsIdle No More has awakened indigenous voices from all over North America, blockading highways and border crossings, flash-mobbing in shopping malls, facing arrest and imprisonment. At issue are sovereignty and treaty rights, dancing and demonstrating for Mother Earth: for the protection of the air, the water, and the land, motivating native peoples out of their idleness and into the streets. -
Overcoming Cultural Colonialism: Journey to Understand “Ikland”
Posted on January 12, 2013 | No CommentsIkland recounts a quest to re-connect with the Ik people. For producer Cevin Soling, they represented the last outpost of imagination in a world devoid of myth. Soling and his crew risked their lives by traveling through war-ravaged northern Uganda to reach them. Their experience was alien and surreal in ways only Jonathan Swift might have imagined... -
Bolivia: Global Warming Endangers Kallawaya Healers
Posted on December 13, 2012 | 1 CommentThe Kallawaya cosmovision is based upon thousands of years of experiential knowledge about their environment and shared among many other communities across the High Andes. At the center of the cosmovision is the notion that humanity must live in harmony with the environment. Illness is the result of a spiritual dissonance caused by some sort disconnect between a person and his or her environment. One of the main tenets of the Kallawaya cosmovision is an ethic of reciprocity that is applied equally to people, communities, and the environment. -
Stories of a Maya Rebirth: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
Posted on September 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe documentary "Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth" presents an alternative worldview to industrial capitalism consuming the earth, following six young Maya into their daily and ceremonial life, revealing their determination to resist the destruction of their culture and environment. -
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. -
Mythology of the Crow: Love Trials of the Magic Buffalo Wife
Posted on May 23, 2012 | No CommentsAn Apsáalooke Crow man falls in love and has a child with the magical Buffalo Woman, which requires him to prove his love and devotion to her and her Buffalo Nation. -
Papua New Guinea: Logging’s “Big Damage” to Forests and Humanity
Posted on January 19, 2012 | 2 CommentsA documentary from David Fedele allows Papua New Guinean villagers to tell their own story of broken promises and destruction from Malaysian companies logging of their forests. -
Soyal Ceremony: Hopi Kachinas Dance at Winter Solstice
Posted on December 22, 2011 | No CommentsThe Soyal Ceremony begins on the shortest day of the year, and symbolizes the second phase of Creation at the Dawn of Life. Its prayers and rituals implement a plan of life for the coming year, ceremonially turning back the sun toward its summer path. -
South American Indigenous Rights: Voice of the Mapuche
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsIn this independent documentary, the Mapuche vision of the world is the basis to understand the struggle to protect their land and culture. The music, the paintings, the poetry, the language, the rituals, the traditions, and the strength of nature and the ancestors are present in "The Voice of the Mapuche". -
Mexico’s Huichol People: Sustaining the Worlds of Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí
Posted on November 5, 2011 | No CommentsA documentary in two parts about an independent school Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí of the Wixáritari, in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. The school focuses on preservation of their ancient culture and providing life tools for the young, enabling their participation in the official educational system of Mexico. -
Brazilian Amazon: Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam Stopped For Now
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 2 CommentsA Brazilian judge has ordered construction suspended on the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon. Norte Energia, the consortium behind the dam's construction, is expected to appeal the decision. Send a message to Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, urging her to defend the Amazon and its people by stopping the Belo Monte Dam. -
David Swallow Jr: People Connected Through Spirit and Sacred Places
Posted on October 8, 2011 | No CommentsDavid Swallow speaks of a new era, learning from the prophecies of Crazy Horse. After a large flash lights the sky, charcoal and ashes fallen to cover the earth, new grass will grow and the waters clear, and God's children will play together. Follow the spiritual leaders into the sacred places for guidance, to experience a land without modern-day illusion. In the spirit world we are all connected, the fire that generates life without end. -
Inuit People: Melting Ice, Shifting Stars, North not North
Posted on September 24, 2011 | No CommentsInuit communities, elders and hunters, speak regarding social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic and their conception of poles shifting, winds different, stars unrecognized. A Labrador Inuit Aurora Borealis myth illuminates their traditional connection with the stars. -
Warao of Guyana: The Origin of the Pleiades
Posted on August 31, 2011 | No CommentsA myth from the Warao People who inhabit the rainforests of the Orinoco Delta of northeastern Venezuela and western Guyana. The term Warao means "The Boat People," referring to their intimate connection with water. Here a hunter takes on an ogress in a story of the origin of the Pleiades. -
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. -
Yellowstone and Glacier Through Native Eyes
Posted on August 4, 2011 | No CommentsFor more than 12,000 years, the intermountain West's native peoples have called the lands known as Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks "home." This program explores modern indigenous perspectives on these great wilderness areas and explores the cultural divide that separates modern times from the not-so-distant past. -
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. -
Australia’s Wild Kimberley Fights Industrialization
Posted on July 13, 2011 | 1 CommentTraditional Goolarabooloo and Jabirr Jabirr land custodians from the Kimberley, Western Australia, have voiced concerns about the proposed $30 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at Walmadan or James Price Point. They say turning their coast into a gas hub will have devastating impacts on wildlife and nearby communities. -
Life and Death: Lakota Spiritual Practice
Posted on July 9, 2011 | 3 CommentsLakota spiritual leaders speak about dealing with a world out of balance, life after death, and overcoming drugs, money and emptiness. Lakota history and the Seven Sacred Rites are discussed. -
Lakota Vision: White Buffalo Calf Woman and World Harmony
Posted on July 9, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe supernatural appearance of White Buffalo Calf Woman tells of her divine revelations to the Lakota people regarding the Seven Sacred Rites to bring about spiritual rebirth and world harmony. -
Hopi Butterfly Dance: Ceremonial Gratitude
Posted on June 17, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Butterfly Dance is a Hopi ceremony petitioning for rain, and health for all living things, thanking the beautiful butterfly for pollinating plant life. -
Hopi Legend Part 3: Wildfire of Purification and Old Spider Woman
Posted on June 9, 2011 | 4 CommentsMytho-Historical Prophecy: Facing certain destruction by a massive wildfire raging down from the high peaks, the Oraibi village leader consults Old Spider Woman on overcoming the state of koyaanisqatsi, or life out of balance, that had befallen the land. -
Hopi Legend Part 2: The Yaayapontsa Dance of Fire
Posted on May 29, 2011 | 2 CommentsFollowing the dances of the kachinas in the wayward village of Pivanhonkyapi suffering the imbalance of Koyaanisqatsi, the dreaded Yaayapontsa arrive to purify the world with fire. -
Hopi Legend: Koyaanisqatsi and World Destruction
Posted on May 25, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe Hopi curse of Koyaanisqatsi marks the total disintegration of the life of harmony and balance. The subject of a 1982 tone poem of modern day environmental devastation by Godfrey Reggio, also shown in the mythological destruction of the ancient Hopi city of Pivanhonkyapi. -
Chumash Legend: Hole in the Blanket
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 1 CommentThe world covered in a blanket of darkness, the rock, plant, and animal people found through cooperation and council to give thanks for the goodness of Mother Earth and Grandfather Sun, and let the light shine down.
