An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Wixárika/Huichol People: Protecting Sacred Lands of Mexico
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Samuel Beckett, Confessions and the Human Condition
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“Bleeding Kansas” and Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Jesse Marquez: Public Preparedness for Threats from Refineries, Ports, and Freeways
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Urban Oil Drilling and the Intersection Between Faith and Environmentalism
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Daily Dose of the Wild
Twittering From the Trees
‘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 February, 2015
Pablo Picasso: Dangerous Art and Political Posturing in Paris
Posted on February 25, 2015 | 2 Comments"Art is never chaste," said Pablo Picasso. "Art is dangerous." One of the 20th century’s greatest painters was born in Málaga, Spain, but Jonathan Jones argues he came into his own amid the sleaze and bohemianism of Paris – the only city that could have matched his peerless imagination.Fracking Boom Surrounds Sacred Chaco Canyon
Posted on February 19, 2015 | No CommentsThe fracking boom threatens Puebloan and Hopi ancestral homelands around New Mexico's sacred Chaco Canyon and local Diné communities are fighting drilling, pipeline projects and just general industrialization of their region without bringing real economic development. See the videos from the Solstice Project.Pod Cars: Autonomous Vehicles vs. Personal Rapid Transit
Posted on February 17, 2015 | 6 CommentsThe age of the pod car might be upon us, but not necessarily as the long-envisioned Personal Rapid Transit. Good for amusement parks and Google's main campus, as well as small newly-built cities or airport shuttles, PRT systems have too many limitations in dense urban areas. The real future for the pod car, like it or not: Autonomous (Self-Driving) Vehicles.Coffee and Climate Change: Morning Java Won’t Survive
Posted on February 11, 2015 | No CommentsClimate change affects coffee crops throughout the world, with extreme weather and virulent pests causing damage to yields and ruining the industry. Thus, kicking our addiction to oil will benefit coffee farmers as well as consumers.Free Trade Cities in Honduras: A Dangerous Experiment
Posted on February 2, 2015 | 3 CommentsThe tiny forgotten Pacific port town of Amapala, among volcanic island sands and stifling heat, is proposed as the site of a radical libertarian experiment: an autonomous free trade city, a haven for multi-national corporations. And the locals are not celebrating.