An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Behold the Kraken, Destroyer from the Depths of the Sea
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The People’s Budget LA and Reimagining Public Safety
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Know Justice, Know Peace: 21 Generations
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THE FUTURE: Solutions, Policy, & Resistance Around Plastic – Plastic Plague Pt 7
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Ecosystem Restoration: “The Great Work of Our Time”
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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!
EcoJustice Radio Archive
How Urban Forestry Can Cool the Climate and Promote Social Equity
Posted on October 25, 2019 | 1 CommentThis episode of EcoJustice Radio we speak with Los Angeles's North East Trees organization regarding the powerful effect urban forests have on the health and well-being of our communities and the climate in general. We also look into programs that are working within those communities to provide equitable solutions, green jobs, and open spaces.
Youth Climate Strike Takes Over Downtown Los Angeles
Posted on October 14, 2019 | 1 CommentThe September 20th Los Angeles Youth Climate Strike was organized by a coalition of groups and led by Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles. EcoJustice Radio's Jessica Aldridge and production team joined the action at Downtown LA's Pershing Square, where anywhere from 10-20,000 people gathered for speeches and music, and then all marched through the streets to City Hall. This caused absolute pandemonium on the crowded city streets, but all happened peacefully and with grace from all involved.
Bottles And Cans Recycling: A Social Contract In Peril
Posted on September 27, 2019 | 1 CommentSusan V. Collins, President of Container Recycling Institute, speaks with host Jessica Aldridge about how California underwent a recent wave of redemption center closures (those places where consumers can drop off their recyclable beverage containers for cash). So what needs to happen to fix the California bottle bill?
Shaping our Water Future: Through Water Quality, Equity & Nature Based Solutions
Posted on September 13, 2019 | 1 CommentLos Angeles currently imports a whopping 70% of their water. And getting it to LA is the largest use of electricity in the state of CA. When water is not captured and utilized within the system, it traverses through the city and out to the ocean. In order to shape a strong water future, we must manage the flow in way that ensures high quality, social equity, and solutions based in nature.
Sustaining the Legacy of the Tongva: Before and After “Los Angeles”
Posted on September 5, 2019 | No CommentsGrandmother Gloria Arellanes speaks on the heritage of the Tongva people, who inhabited and stewarded the area referred to as the "Los Angeles Basin" as well as the Southern Channel Islands. Grandmother Gloria offers her insights about the state of our world, youth, elderhood and the intergenerational cycle of learning, as well as how we might honor proper protocols, First Nations and all that is Sacred, amidst the backdrop of increasing urbanity, and the numerous perils now facing our environment.
Preserving the Wild in the Anthropocene Era – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on August 27, 2019 | No CommentsHear from David Lamfrom, Director of California Desert and National Wildlife programs at the National Parks Conservation Association, who discusses with EcoJustice Radio the particular challenges of protecting and preserving our national parks in the Anthropocene era, including this current stage of global industrialization.
Pakistan: Connecting Climate Change, Women Empowerment, and Art
Posted on August 23, 2019 | No CommentsAyla Sohail, Climate Change and Livelihood Project Coordinator at PODA, Potohar Organization of development and advocacy in Pakistan, speaks with Jessica Aldridge from EcoJustice Radio on how climate change, women's empowerment, and art activism come together in her home country.![Carry Kim talks with Rev. Adelia Sandoval, the Spiritual Leader for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians/Acjachemen Nation. The Acjachemen people are the indigenous people of Orange County in Southern […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Adelia-Sandoval-Acjachemen-Wisdom-Day-Jack-Eidt-115x115.jpg "Earth-Honoring Traditions of the Acjachemen with Spiritual Leader Adelia Sandoval")
Earth-Honoring Traditions of the Acjachemen with Spiritual Leader Adelia Sandoval
Posted on August 14, 2019 | 1 CommentCarry Kim talks with Rev. Adelia Sandoval, the Spiritual Leader for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians/Acjachemen Nation. The Acjachemen people are the indigenous people of Orange County in Southern […]
Pasture Based Carbon Farming with SonRise Ranch – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on July 30, 2019 | 1 CommentCarry Kim speaks with Doug Lindamood, from SonRise Ranch in San Diego County, California. He and his family own and operate this pasture based livestock operation dedicated to changing industrial, factory farming into a local, sustainable, integrity, food movement through education and outreach one family at a time.
Green New Deal Tour Comes to Los Angeles – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on July 22, 2019 | 1 CommentIn the spring of 2019, the Sunrise Movement, building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across the US, put on the Road To A Green New Deal Tour, visiting eight cities across the US to share what a Green New Deal would look like in different communities as well as spotlighting local politicians and organizers throughout the country.
Public Banking and a Sustainable Economy – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on July 10, 2019 | No CommentsEllen Brown writes that public banking is the only way to finance the transition to a green economy. EcoJustice Radio's Mark Morris speaks with Madeline Merritt, Core Organizer for Public Bank LA and Member of California Public Banking Alliance.
Women in Politics and the Environment – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on June 27, 2019 | No CommentsOn this show, Jessica Aldridge talks with Aura Vasquez, Environmental and Social Justice organizer and Candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 10, on how we change the “old boys club” and what this could mean for bringing social equity to the table.
LA’s Sweatshops & the Fight for Garment Workers – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on June 19, 2019 | 1 CommentLos Angeles is the nation’s garment production capital and the city’s second largest manufacturing sector, yet workers face injustice, usually associated with the developing world, right here in one of the largest cities in the United States. Jessica Aldridge interviews Mar Martinez from the Garment Worker Center a worker rights organization leading an anti-sweatshop movement to secure social and economic justice for tens of thousands of Los Angeles garment workers.
The Steep Environmental and Social Costs of the Fashion Industry
Posted on June 11, 2019 | 2 CommentsWhen we get dressed in the morning, most of us don’t consider the environmental costs and human rights issues that may be attached to the clothing on our bodies. Jessica Aldridge interviews two women who have made it their business to not only consider how to clean up the global fashion industry, advocating for environmentally-supportive and equitable solutions to water pollution, pesticides, microfibers, and waste associated with making, washing, and disposing of our clothing.
Mobilizing a Climate Revolution – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on April 4, 2019 | No CommentsMassive climate disruption continues to strike all over the world, one disaster after another, droughts, wildfires, typhoons, mega-floods, with glaciers melting and methane escaping from deep under the permafrost. The UN IPCC said we have 12 more years to stabilize greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere to avoid runaway climate change. We need solutions to this problem to spark a climate revolution. Jessica Aldridge speaks with NASA climate scientist and author Peter Kalmus and Sam Berndt also a scientist and a coordinator of the Sunrise Movement Los Angeles.
Apache Stronghold: The Spiritual Movement to Save Oak Flat – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on February 4, 2019 | No CommentsJoin Stephanie Mushrush and Carrie "Cc" Curley Strong as they share about the Apache Stronghold spiritual movement to Save Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel). Apache Stronghold, led by Wendsler Nosie, Sr. for the last decade, is a spiritual movement to protect the Apache Way of life: their sacred sites and cultural and spiritual heritage. The movement is committed to preventing Resolution Copper, a foreign mining corporation & subsidiary of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, from desecrating the San Carlos Apache Nation's ancestral lands.
Creating Resilient Ecosystems & Regenerating the Planet – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on December 26, 2018 | No CommentsErik Ohlsen is the director of the Permaculture Skills Center, a vocational training school that offers advanced education in ecological design, landscaping, farming, and land stewardship. Creator of the the Eco-Landscape Mastery School online training program, Erik is also founder of Permaculture Artisans which specializes in design and installation of ecological landscapes and farms throughout California. Carry Kim interviews him on EcoJustice Radio.
Nuclear Waste: The Los Angeles Meltdown & Cover-Up – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on December 17, 2018 | 1 CommentThe Nov. 2018 Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties burned 96,949 acres, destroyed 1,643 structures, killed three people, and prompted the evacuation of more than 295,000 people. The fire started at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, site of one of the worst nuclear accidents in history.
Mauna Kea Movement to Protect Sacred Sites – Part II – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on December 13, 2018 | 1 CommentKumu Mikilani provides an update on the status of Mauna Kea and the inspired movement to stop the construction of the 30-meter TMT telescope, anticipated to be the Northern Hemisphere's singular largest telescope sponsored by CalTech, University of California and the countries of India, Japan, and Canada. Twelve telescopes have already blighted what native Hawaiians consider their most sacred mountain and pinnacle of their origination cosmologically.
Protecting Mauna Kea, Hawai’i’s Tallest Sacred Mountain – Part I
Posted on December 12, 2018 | 3 CommentsKumu Mikilani Young discusses with Carry Kim from EcoJustice Radio about the proposed, highly controversial 30-meter TMT telescope which would be built atop "ceded" conservation lands on Mauna Kea, considered the most sacred mountain for native Hawaiians or Kanaka Ma'oli. The TMT telescope would be the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere and is being spearheaded by the University of California, the California Institute of Technology as well as: Japan, China, India and Canada.![Tejon Ranch Centennial Specific Plan (or Centennial) is a massive planned city in a unique, rare, fire-prone wilderness of grasslands and mountains, a residential and commercial development in LA County. […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Centennial-1-Nick-Jensen-115x115.jpg "Centennial Project: Suburbs Sprawl, Health & Environment Suffers – EcoJustice Radio")
Centennial Project: Suburbs Sprawl, Health & Environment Suffers – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on November 26, 2018 | No CommentsTejon Ranch Centennial Specific Plan (or Centennial) is a massive planned city in a unique, rare, fire-prone wilderness of grasslands and mountains, a residential and commercial development in LA County. […]
EcoJustice Radio – How Indigenous People Will End Tar Sands Pipelines – Episode 23
Posted on November 12, 2018 | No CommentsCarry Kim from EcoJustice Radio talks with Lydia Ponce, a Mayo-Quechua Indigenous activist, member of AIM (American Indian Movement), and Co-Director of Idle No More SoCal. She also works as SoCal 350 Engagement Director
The State of Recycling in California and Beyond – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on October 24, 2018 | No CommentsEcoJustice Radio guest, Nick Lapis, Director of Advocacy of Californians Against Waste (CAW), advocates at the state and local levels to create, promote, and implement the standards and policies necessary for waste reduction and recycling.
EcoJustice Radio – This is Zero Hour – Episode 21
Posted on October 17, 2018 | No CommentsYoung people are mobilizing on climate change as the generation that will inherit its various outcomes and crises. They organized a national day of action called “This is Zero Hour” which seeks to amplify young voices who are working on environmental issues in their communities. Episode Hosted by Mark Morris with guests Arielle Cohen, Gavin Pierce, and Ryanne Mena.
EcoJustice Radio – San Onofre as Nuclear Waste Dump – Episode 20
Posted on September 3, 2018 | No CommentsSince it closed for safety violations in 2012, the dangers of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) between Orange County and San Diego have only continued to loom.
