An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Is Nuclear Waste at San Onofre Safe?
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![EcoJustice Radio and Adventures In Waste look at Single Use Consumption Culture and how proposed #AB1080 and #SB54 legislation in California attempts to reduce plastic pollution and support recycling and […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Single-Use-Plastic-Greenpeace-36x36.jpg "Reducing Single-Use Culture Through Legislation – National Zero Waste Conference")
Reducing Single-Use Culture Through Legislation – National Zero Waste Conference
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Extraction: Fracking and Drilling for Plastic Dreams – Plastic Plague Pt 1
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![This is Installment One of our National Zero Waste Conference series meant to elevate the voices featured during the two-day event in Berkeley, California (postponed this year). Our guest, Leslie […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/EcoJustice-Radio-logo-36x36.jpg "Connecting Waste and Climate Change – National Zero Waste Conference")
Connecting Waste and Climate Change – National Zero Waste Conference
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal releases ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ this June, 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, 2012
Riding the Sky with Reindeer Shamans of Siberia
Posted on September 30, 2012 | 1 CommentIn Siberia, shamans combine a distinctive imagery of reindeer and of bird-flight. Their costumes sometimes include imitation reindeer antlers, occasionally tipped with wings or feathers, placed on the headdress. Like the participants in the Eveny (Evenki) midsummer ritual, shamans may ride to the sky on a bird or a reindeer.
Vicki Kirschenbaum: Legislation Can Stop Global Warming
Posted on September 29, 2012 | 5 CommentsVicki Kirschenbaum of Citizens Climate Lobby advocates for legislation that puts a fee on carbon pollution to stop global warming. This would spur energy conservation, create incentives for investment in renewables, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce the devastating environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels.
Honduras: Neo-Colonial “Free Market” Charter Cities, Democracy Not Included – By Annie Bird
Posted on September 25, 2012 | 5 CommentsFree marketeers and Libertarians advocate for the world's first Charter City, with authoritarian governance, facilitated by a military coup, coordinated using political sway with business partners, using public funds from the IDB for infrastructure plans, and built on land "purchased" from indigenous communities, small farmers and the state of Honduras.
Scariest Workplace in the USA, Shut Down, Still Scary – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 2 CommentsCalifornia's San Onofre Nuke Plant, although switched off, leaks radioactivity, and threatens a population of 8 million. It should be shut down permanently, today.
California’s Proposition 37: Labeling Monsanto’s War on Life
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 1 CommentYou are what you eat...but what if you don't know what you are eating? This November, Californians will vote on "the right to know" what is being eaten. As well, "The World According to Monsanto" looks at the risks of biotechnology to our environment and food supply.
Vandana Shiva: Industrial Agriculture Destroys Life
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 1 CommentAt a time when industry has set its eyes on the superprofits to be harvested from seed monopolies through patented seeds and seeds engineered with toxic genes and genes for making crops resistant to herbicides, people are seeking food freedom through organic, nonindustrial food.
Detropia: Detroit as Utopia or Dystopia?
Posted on September 18, 2012 | 3 CommentsCaroline Libresco: DETROPIA sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the brink of dissolution. These soulful pragmatists and stalwart philosophers strive to make ends meet and make sense of it all, refusing to abandon hope or resistance.
Vision of Sustainable Mobility? High-Speed Rail Challenges California
Posted on September 17, 2012 | 4 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.
Austria: Operatic Spectacles Rise from the Lake at the Bregenz Festival
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe Seebühne, a floating opera stage of bewildering proportions rises every summer from Austria's Lake Constance, the centerpiece of the annual Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival). It has staged productions such as Verdi's "Aida," Giordano's "André Chénier," Bernstein's "West Side Story," and next year will be Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
Wild Eco Lodge: Sweden’s Primitive Kolarbyn
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsSet in a wild forest near the Skärsjön Lake, the Kolarbyn Eco-Lodge is Sweden’s most primitive hotel, offering twelve electricity-free "nature huts" allowing communion with the Swedish landscape without actually camping.
John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes – A Meditative Journey
Posted on September 10, 2012 | 2 CommentsJohn Cage’s 1948 magnum opus for prepared piano, takes the listener through an hour-long journey told as a meditative story. Influenced by the Hindu aesthetic theory of rasa, or emotional character, it intones the listener toward tranquility.
Stories of a Maya Rebirth: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
Posted on September 8, 2012 | 1 CommentThe 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.
Ecuador: Battle Between Living Systems and Oil at Yasuní National Park
Posted on September 4, 2012 | 2 CommentsEcuador abandons a plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation, putting Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. Unable to raise sufficient financing, President Correa plans to move forward with oil drilling in this wild Amazonian region, putting wildlife and willfully uncontacted tribes at risk.
Bryan Killett: Jumpstart a Clean Energy Economy and Cool the Climate
Posted on September 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsRising CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels has resulted in extreme weather and economic danger. A revenue neutral fee and dividend plan could spur a clean energy industrial revolution and reduce global warming.
