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.
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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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Los Angeles Archive
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End Corporate Personhood: LA Joins National Movement to Repeal Citizens United
Posted on May 2, 2013 | No CommentsWe, the People of the USA, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Join the National Day of Action on May 10th with two marches in Los Angeles. -
Los Angeles River Revitalization: A City Rediscovers its Flow
Posted on April 9, 2013 | 1 CommentThe LA River, an over-engineered concrete "water-freeway," is undergoing a long-term greening and revitalization. A 32-mile greenbelt, developed through numerous projects, promises to improve the health of the ecosystem and the value of the river as a regional public amenity, while managing flows and protecting properties. -
Word to the President: Action on Climate and Keystone Now!
Posted on February 13, 2013 | 1 CommentJoin the largest climate change rally in history on Sunday, February 17th, with tens of thousands converging on Washington DC and solidarity marches in Los Angeles and across the country to demand: "Solve the climate crisis! Take a stand, Mr. President!" -
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. -
Forward on Climate: February 17th Rallies in DC and Los Angeles
Posted on January 21, 2013 | 12 CommentsOn Sunday, February 17th, at 1 pm, in solidarity with the Washington DC "Forward on Climate" rally, join Tar Sands Action Southern California, Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign, and Food and Water Watch, along with many more other environmental organizations as they march in downtown Los Angeles to deliver a message - “Solve the Climate Crisis! Take a Stand Mr. President!” -
Urban Ecology: Promoting Life in the Concrete Jungle
Posted on November 30, 2012 | No CommentsIn the growing field of urban ecology, scientists study cities as if they were ecosystems. With cities launching efforts to slash carbon emissions, reduce water use and improve habitats, scientists are beginning to evaluate how such policies affect the overall health of the urban environment. -
Who Bombed Earth First! Organizer Judi Bari?
Posted on November 29, 2012 | No CommentsOscar-entry documentary chronicles the unsolved mystery of the car bombing of Old-Growth Forests Activists and their later arrest by the FBI for their own injuries. The film also illustrates the Redwood Summer movement to save the Headwaters Forest of Northern California and Judi Bari's victorious 1st Amendment lawsuit. -
A Los Angeles Rail~Volution: A City in Sustainable Transition – By Jack Eidt
Posted on October 23, 2012 | No CommentsThe Rail~Volution Conference rolled into Los Angeles to illustrate how transit projects energize neighborhoods, meeting a significant demand for multi-density housing walkable to restaurants, offices, and shops. They can transform the landscape and mindset, in this case, of auto-addicted Southern California. One stop at a time. -
Sustainable Mobility: Rail~Volution Los Angeles 2012
Posted on October 10, 2012 | 1 CommentRail~Volution is a network, movement and conference that brings together community advocates, developers, and civic planners energized by a mix of ideas, cultures, and transit projects unique to the greater Los Angeles region, on the 14th to 17th of October 2012. -
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. -
Electric Streetcars: Back to the Urban Future
Posted on August 25, 2012 | No CommentsThe movement toward revitalization of downtown areas in the United States with streetcars brings 19th century urbanism together with 21st century sustainability, despite the usual fossil fueled detractors. -
Dirty Realism: The Anti-Social Satire of Charles Bukowski
Posted on August 18, 2012 | No CommentsI go outside - and all up and down the street - the green armies shoot color - like an everlasting 4th of July, - and I too seem to swell inside, - a kind of unknown bursting, - a feeling, perhaps, that there isn't any - enemy - anywhere -
Adams on Kerouac: The Buddha’s First Noble Truth Unveiled at Big Sur
Posted on August 11, 2012 | 1 CommentComposed for the opening of LA's Disney Hall, Adams references Kerouac's evocation of the first of Buddha's Four Noble Truths in his piece, celebrating the freedom of the California coast at Big Sur. -
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Urban Approaches to Zero Waste
Posted on March 15, 2012 | 16 CommentsCities in the US have begun moving toward zero waste by diverting up to 90% of discarded materials from landfills, conserving and recovering them as resources. -
Sound Motel: Experimental Musings in Los Angeles
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsEagle Rock's Welcome Inn transformed into a micro-concert grand finale for Los Angeles's Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival on Sunday, January 29th. The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound produced this free, six-hour event. -
mapping sound. – Bowed Guitar Tributaries of Los Angeles
Posted on January 21, 2012 | No CommentsJust Intoned tunings sound off, with a 2009 tribute to slain microtonal guitarist Rod Poole, from SASSAS at the Schindler House, Los Angeles. -
2012 Transformations: Radical Intention Setting in Los Angeles
Posted on January 3, 2012 | No CommentsDeborah Eden Tull will hold a gathering at the Hub in Santa Monica on January 22nd to set a radical agenda for transformation in 2012. -
Tar Sands – Keystone XL Pipeline Activist Resources
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsAs the Tar Sands Oil Mining and the associated Keystone XL and Northern Gateway Pipelines push forward, education and collaboration are necessary to stop these destructive projects and demand a sustainable and clean energy policy today. -
Tonantzin Transforms into Our Lady of Guadalupe
Posted on December 17, 2011 | 1 CommentThe future St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin explained to the Bishop of Mexico City how the Virgin appeared to requested a temple be built at Tepeyac in her honor. -
Virgin of Guadalupe: The Apparitions of An Aztec Goddess
Posted on December 14, 2011 | 1 CommentA Mexican Indian Catholic convert experiences visions of an obscure Aztec goddess, Tonantzin, challenging his faith. Thereafter the goddess becomes associated with the Virgin Mary in post-Spanish-conquest church. -
Alberta Oil Sands & Healing Our Impact (from the Fuel Addiction)
Posted on November 21, 2011 | 1 CommentSPECIAL SCREENING & Q/A on Alberta Tar Sands Oil & Healing Our Impact (By Breaking the Fuel Addiction) with Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian First Nations actress and activist, December 6, Los Angeles Area -
LA Screening: “Tipping Point – The End of Oil” – Dec 6th
Posted on November 16, 2011 | 6 CommentsPlease join WilderUtopia and Burbank Green Alliance in welcoming Canadian First Nations actress and activist Tantoo Cardinal at a special Los Angeles area screening and discussion on Alberta Tar Sands Oil on December 6, 2011 in Pasadena. Rae Breaux from Tar Sands Action will also be on hand to discuss the campaign. -
Drums and Dance of Día de los Muertos
Posted on November 1, 2011 | 1 CommentIn pre-Hispanic Nahua culture (Aztec and the many other peoples of Central Mexico), life was seen as a dream, and only in dying could a human truly awaken. Death would set free the soul. -
Olvera Street Day of the Dead – Los Angeles with an Aztec Flair
Posted on October 31, 2011 | 2 CommentsOlvera Street near downtown Los Angeles burst with color, reverence, and dance for the annual Dia de los Muertos celebration and procession. -
Occupy Los Angeles: Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
Posted on October 18, 2011 | No CommentsAll machines have their friction, but when the friction comes to have its own machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such as machine any longer.
