An Array of Utopian Flowers
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An Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’
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Green Banking: Toward A Regenerative Economy
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THE BOTTLE SCAM: Land, Water, and Indigenous Rights – Plastic Plague Pt. 5
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THROWAWAY SOCIETY: Economics & Inequity of (Plastic) Consumption – Plastic Plague Pt 4
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The BirdHouse: Reconnecting People & Place through Arts & Ecology
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Archive for September, 2011
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.
Manhattan’s Lower East Side: Underground Trolley Reclamation for Park
Posted on September 25, 2011 | 1 CommentMuch as The High Line transformed an old freight line into an urban greenway, the proposed conversion of the six-decades-disused trolley terminal on the Lower East Side into a park called Delancey Underground, will inevitably be known as the Low Line.
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.
Child Labor: The Dark Side of Chocolate
Posted on September 22, 2011 | 4 CommentsChocolate often originates from the hands of children working as slaves. In Côte D’Ivoire and other cocoa-producing countries, an estimated 100,000 children labor in the fields, many against their will. Action taken now demands that Hershey "Raise the Bar" on their fair trade labor practices.
Diego Rivera and the Fall and Rise of Detroit
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 5 CommentsViewed today, Rivera's "Detroit Industry" murals might have prefigured Detroit's downfall, but also envision a renaissance. It harkens to the earth, the races living and working in harmony, where much of the city has been cleared of slums and allowed to regrow with food crops, grasses and trees.
‘Zonie Goof Darkens Southwest, and More… By Jerry Collamer
Posted on September 10, 2011 | No CommentsA zonie-tech aka Arizona electrical technician, flipped the wrong switch, shorting out a huge chunk of SoCal, and Baja, and 1-nuke plant. Stop laughing. It just happened.
Shoshoni: Grizzly Bear Song
Posted on September 6, 2011 | 1 CommentShoshoni Elder Oldhands performs a song given to him by spirit to bring awareness to the struggle of our relatives the Bear Nations, to stay alive in an ever shrinking World. It was the Bear people that showed us how to use the Earth's Medicine. It is their Wisdom that can save us. All My Relations
Bear Dancing into Autumn: Hunting the Big Dipper
Posted on September 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn a blending of an Iroquois and Cree legend, with autumn approaching, four brothers had the same dream for four nights. They saw a vision of themselves tracking and killing the monster bear. Believing the dream to hold the truth, the brothers followed it into the sky.
Yellowstone is Bear Country By Jerry Collamer
Posted on September 4, 2011 | No CommentsJerry Collamer imagines a healthy coexistence with bears on a recent trip to Yellowstone by a member of the WilderUtopia crew...
Grizzly Bears and Humans: Habitat Protection Ensures Coexistence
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsThe paths of grizzly bears and humans often collide, with fatal consequences for both parties. Despite protected lands such as national parks, the former's survival depends upon establishing roaming corridors across private land and highways. The Vital Ground Foundation is doing just that.
