An Array of Utopian Flowers
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A Global Perspective on Permaculture Design with Warren Brush
Posted on November 19, 2021 | 1 Comment - Greening Without Gentrification: Expanding Parks and Protecting Communities
Posted on November 12, 2021 | No Comments - Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields, The Veteran-Farmer Movement
Posted on November 5, 2021 | No Comments - Deadly Waters – Oil Spills & The Future of Offshore Drilling
Posted on October 29, 2021 | No Comments - Criminalizing Activism – Steven Donziger vs Chevron
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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!
Chumash people Archive
Montecito Mudslides, Climate Chaos Impact Chumash People – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on February 9, 2018 | No CommentsMarcus Lopez Senior, member of the Barbareno Chumash Nation in California, speaks with Jack Eidt from SoCal 350 on climate chaos and the impacts on the Chumash people from fires, mudslides, colonization, land theft, gentrification, and offshore drilling.
Morro Bay Estuary and Its Nine Volcanic Sisters
Posted on October 31, 2016 | 1 CommentMorro Bay, the bounty of sea, dune, bay, and estuary ebb and flow against the sacred Nine Volcanic Sisters, the rocky Morros. Small town charm coexists with protected parkland and one of the few remaining functioning wetland estuaries in overpopulated California, a direct counterpoint to its channelized and endlessly pumped and polluted waterways. The landscape invites migrating birds and tourists, fosters endangered plants and animals, and allows fish populations to thrive.Chumash Story: Seeds of Creation and the Rainbow Bridge
Posted on May 12, 2014 | 8 CommentsHutash, the Earth Mother, created the first Chumash people on the island of Limuw, now known as Santa Cruz Island. They were made from the seeds of a Magic Plant.Chumash Elder Speaks on Healing Humanity and the Climate
Posted on February 23, 2014 | 4 CommentsArt Cisneros is a Chumash elder and firekeeper. The Chumash People are the original native peoples of the central California Coast. Art holds the sacred space for their annual Tomol crossing to Limu on the Channel Islands. Lately, he has undertaken a series of ceremonies focused on healing humanity's relationship with the climate, responding to the ongoing drought and extreme weather, prayers that he shared with the people at the Great March for Climate Action LA Launch on March 1, 2014, in the Port of Los Angeles.California Condor: Overcoming Extinction, A Symbol of Renewal
Posted on March 6, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe California Condor Recovery Program has defied the odds to rescue from oblivion the last of the prehistorics and icon of Native Californian cosmology. Threats such as lead ammunition, microtrash, and sprawling land development threaten these impressive gains of an endangered species. The film "The Condor's Shadow" documents this struggle.Chumash Healing With Spirit: A Tribute to Cecilia Garcia
Posted on May 26, 2012 | 1 CommentTo honor the soul transition of Chumash teacher and healer Cecilia Garcia, we share an article written by her and USC Professor Jim Adams on mind, body and spirit healing.Chumash Stories: Julie Tumamait-Stenslie Speaks at Ojai
Posted on January 4, 2012 | 6 CommentsVideo: Chumash elder and storyteller Julie Tumamait Stenslie told myths and legends from her Ventureno Chumash tradition at the Ojai Foundation.Self-Healing with Chumash Native Plant Medicine
Posted on October 21, 2011 | 6 CommentsThe late Cecilia Garcia taught Chumash traditional spirit healing with prayers, laughter, dreaming, herbal medicines and aromatherapy, leading to mending the body's physical processes.Chumash Sky and Earth Deities and Cosmological Rock Art
Posted on October 20, 2011 | 7 CommentsDepicted on high mountain cave pictographs, the Chumash saw the stars as powerful, competitive sky beings that affected human life and the balance of the universe.Newhall Ranch: Feds OK Massive Flood Plain Development
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe US Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers resolved their differences and advanced one of the largest sprawling developments ever contemplated in California on 12,000 acres along the Santa Clara River in northwest Los Angeles County. Newhall Ranch would create a city for 60,000 on a six-mile stretch of the wild, open, agricultural, free-flowing river flood plain.Chumash Legend: Hole in the Blanket
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe world covered in a blanket of darkness, the rock, plant, and animal people found through cooperation and council to give thanks for the goodness of Mother Earth and Grandfather Sun, and let the light shine down.
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