An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Permaculture Lessons From Fire: Restoring Paradise with Matthew Trumm
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Samoan “Chief Tuiavii” on the Desperation of ‘The Papalagi’
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Candidate Forum for Environmental Justice in South LA with Fatima Iqbal-Zubair
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Flood Control to Free Rivers: The Tale of Water on Tongvalands
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Ocean Desalination vs Conservation and Human Rights
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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 November, 2011
Warming World: Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsThe COP17 climate meeting in Durban, South Africa, is themed “Saving Tomorrow Today.” The environmental impact of hydroelectric dams in Africa and beyond places tomorrow’s ecosystem sustainability at risk.
Iroquois Thanksgiving Address
Posted on November 24, 2011 | 8 CommentsThis prayer is a gift from the Haudenosaunee People (The Iroquois Nation), words of Thanksgiving with ancient roots dating back to when the Great Law of Peace was brought to the people by the Peace Maker, the Iroquois prophet, statesman, and lawgiver, who counseled an end to warring between the tribes.
Amory Lovins: Efficiency and Renewable Energy will Reinvent Fire
Posted on November 23, 2011 | 5 CommentsReinventing Fire maps pathways for running a 158%-bigger U.S. economy in 2050 but needing no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and no new inventions.
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
Climate 2030: National Blueprint for Clean Energy Economy
Posted on November 21, 2011 | 4 CommentsReducing oil dependence. Strengthening energy security. Creating jobs. Tackling global warming. Addressing air pollution. Improving our health. The Union of Concerned Scientists has outlined a US national blueprint for a clean energy economy.
Will a Magical Toll Road Get Us Out Alive?
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsAnd while we're in a wishing mode, a resident living down here in the shadow of San Onofre Nuke Plant (SONGS) recommends paving a Toll Road through the backcountry of San Onofre State Beach and the San Mateo Creek Watershed, as the ultimate solution to us escaping SONGS' unscheduled meltdown.
South American Indigenous Rights: Voice of the Mapuche
Posted on November 18, 2011 | 1 CommentIn 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".
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.
Pipeline Delay: Sustainability Threat from Tar Sands Oil Remains
Posted on November 14, 2011 | 4 CommentsPlanned expansion of mining the Florida-sized Alberta Boreal Forest for tar sands bitumen crude oil, destroying habitats and indigenous societies, will continue despite the delay in the Keystone XL pipeline.
Winona LaDuke – The Pipeline for the One Percent
Posted on November 14, 2011 | 1 CommentKeystone XL, touted to bring jobs and energy security, will do neither. Even if the pipeline never spilled, even if the tar sands weren’t an environmental atrocity, this would still be a bad deal for the US public.
Guatemala: “Genocidal” General Elected to Fight Drug War
Posted on November 8, 2011 | 4 CommentsGuatemala's former President Pérez Molina, accused of being an intellectual and material author of torture, disappearances, executions, massacres and indeed genocide. He ended up resigning for corruption charges three years later.
Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: Climate Game Over
Posted on November 7, 2011 | 7 CommentsWhile thousands surrounded the White House, a hundred people marched through downtown Los Angeles in solidarity calling for Obama to reject the 1,700-mile tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Mexico’s Huichol People: Sustaining the Worlds of Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí
Posted on November 5, 2011 | 2 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.
Drums and Dance of Día de los Muertos
Posted on November 1, 2011 | 4 CommentsIn 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.
