An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
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Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
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A Farm Grows in LA: Urban Farming with Avenue 33
Posted on December 11, 2020 | 1 Comment -
Amazon Defenders Part Two: Criminalizing Activism – The Steven Donziger Case
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Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration
Posted on November 27, 2020 | No Comments
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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!
Amazon River Basin Archive
Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
Posted on December 17, 2020 | 2 CommentsEcoJustice Radio celebrates the land and water protectors of the Amazon Rainforest in a Four-Part series called Amazon Defenders. In Part Three we discuss the Indigenous rights movement for community and ecosystem health in Brazil and the six US-based financial institutions complicit in deforestation, fires, and rainforest destruction.
Amazon Defenders Part Two: Criminalizing Activism – The Steven Donziger Case
Posted on December 3, 2020 | 2 CommentsEcoJustice Radio investigates the story of New York based attorney Steven Donziger who represented Ecuadorian communities demanding justice in a $9.5 billion decision against Chevron-Texaco for one of the largest-ever oil disasters. Through brazen judicial activism against him, Chevron has turned Mr. Donziger into a Corporate Political Prisoner
Amazon Defenders Part One: Protecting Biodiversity from Big Oil
Posted on November 19, 2020 | 2 CommentsEcoJustice Radio celebrates the land and water protectors of the Amazon Rainforest in a Four-Part series called Amazon Defenders. We begin Part One in the Western Amazon to understand how activists are confronting the dirty legacy of oil extraction, stopping the expansion of new oil leases, and protecting the rainforest biodiversity.
Amazon Oil, Biodiversity and Human Rights in “Yasuni Man”
Posted on July 12, 2018 | No CommentsIn this episode of EcoJustice Radio, host Jack Eidt speaks with Ryan Killackey, filmmaker of the award-winning documentary film set in the Ecuadorian Amazon, "Yasuni Man." Plus, Zoe Cina-Sklar, campaigner for the #EndAmazonCrude effort by Amazon Watch, shares how California communities can play a powerful role in the fight for a just transition off fossil fuels.
Amazon Oil Drilling and the LA Connection – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on February 2, 2018 | No CommentsIs driving your car in LA destroying the Amazon rainforest? Hear Zoe Cina-Sklar, Campaigner for Amazon Watch, discuss the "End Amazon Crude" campaign and discover the numerous connections between LA's oil addiction and preservation of the rainforest.
Field Guide to Adventures in Tropical Botany
Posted on May 16, 2017 | No CommentsField Guides to the Wild intrigue Naomi Pitcairn, sharing her adventures in scientific documentation of the wonders of nature, in this case the botanical wealth of the American Tropics.
“Embrace of the Serpent” Film: Journey of Healing and Ethnobotany
Posted on April 11, 2016 | 2 CommentsEthnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, one of the most important plant explorers of the 20th century, served as a key inspiration in a recent film called "Embrace of the Serpent." In December 1941, Schultes entered the Amazon to study how indigenous peoples used plants for medicinal, ritual, and practical purposes. After nearly a decade of fieldwork, he made significant discoveries about the sacred hallucinogen ayahuasca. In total, Schultes would collect more than 24,000 species of plants including some 300 species new to Western science.
Thirty-Four Colombian Tribes Face Extinction
Posted on June 1, 2014 | 4 CommentsThe Nukak People of Colombia have been forced from their homes by illegal armed groups, in the latest attack against the country’s most recently-contacted tribe. Mining, palm oil, cattle ranching and coca threaten the majority of the country's 102 indigenous communities.
Ayahuasca: Fake Shamans and The Divine Vine of Immortality
Posted on July 18, 2013 | 9 CommentsEvery day, more and more tourists arrive in Iquitos, Peru, seeking spiritual enlightenment or a psychedelic experience first made popular by William Burroughs and the Beatniks in the 1960s. Unfortunately, some well-paid "shamans" lack the experience or understanding of the powerful and sacred botanical brews used for thousands of years for healing and divination. And the gringos-on-holiday often get over their heads in the wilds of the Amazon.
Matthew Pallamary: Wolf’s Healing Advice for the Boston Bombings
Posted on April 24, 2013 | 1 CommentMatthew Pallamary, Dorchester native and author of several fiction and non-fiction books on the South American indigenous perspective, examines healing from the collective shadow exemplified by the Boston Marathon bombings and managing the spirit of the "wolves within."
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.
Rainforest Wilt: Drought in the Amazon Has Long-Term Effects
Posted on April 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Amazon Rainforest experienced a devastating drought in 2010, increasing its emission of greenhouse gases, endangering its role as a global climate balance.
