An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Sacred Giants: The Urgency of Reforesting Old Growth Trees
Posted on August 13, 2021 | No Comments - Chaparral: California’s Misunderstood Biodiversity Hotspot
Posted on August 6, 2021 | No Comments - Changing the Climate: Investing in a Regenerative Economy
Posted on July 30, 2021 | No Comments - Online Shopping: The Impacts to Air, Land, & Social Justice
Posted on July 23, 2021 | No Comments - Sunken Seaweed: The Future of Regenerative Ocean Farming
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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!
gentrification Archive
LA River Revitalization: The Story of Master Plan Gone Awry
Posted on April 2, 2021 | 1 CommentEnvironmental and social justice groups speak with EcoJustice Radio on the lack of vision and environmental, land use, and community protections in the LA River Revitalization Master PlanEcoJustice Radio – Overdevelopment and Community Pushback in Inglewood – Episode 14
Posted on June 20, 2018 | No CommentsHear from Woodrow Curry, lifelong resident and lead organizer for the grassroots coalition Uplift Inglewood, talking with host and executive producer of EcoJustice Radio Mark Morris about the ongoing community pushback against overdevelopment in the area.Is Day of the Dead Culture in SF’s Mission Endangered?
Posted on October 30, 2016 | 1 CommentIn San Francisco, the Mission District has celebrated Day of the Dead every year in since the early 70’s with altars in Garfield Park, serving as a community graveyard for the night and through art, music, other live performances and a walking procession. With the neighborhood in transition from rapid gentrification, will this vibrant culture rite continue? Yes, for now... Photos by Jack Eidt from 2015.The Supreme Love of the Church of John Coltrane
Posted on December 4, 2015 | 1 CommentDiscover the African Orthodox Church of St. John Coltrane, Founded on the Divine Music of A Love Supreme. Evicted in 2016 from its original Fillmore neighborhood in San Francisco from gentrification, it has moved to the Western Addition/NOPA, which once was once the epicenter of the city's jazz scene.L.A. River Must Transform as Watershed, Transportation Corridor
Posted on September 29, 2015 | 2 CommentsTakeaways from a recent Green Festival Expo discussion on the Los Angeles River Revitalization include that the job of planning for water resiliency belongs to all of us, not Frank Gehry regardless of his recent charge, and we must also consider how public access, parkland, ecosystem restoration, cargo and passenger rail, bicycle greenways, and anti-gentrification environmental justice will fit into the mix. Collaboration is the key.On Labor and Inequality: Reign of the One Percenters
Posted on September 9, 2015 | No CommentsIn honor of Labor Day and the continuing inequality in the U.S. economic system, Christopher Ketcham's essay was published a Occupy Wall Street was taking off in 2011. The problem continues: money given out in Wall Street bonuses in 2014 was twice the amount all minimum-wage workers earned combined.Will Self: Talentless Hipsters and Commodification Culture
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 3 CommentsThis awful cult of talentless hipsters has its Mecca in Los Angeles, according to Will Self. He asserts his generation took the avant-garde and turned it into a successful rearguard action by the flying columns of capitalism’s blitzkrieg. What to make of the commodification and democratization of culture, and where to go from here?Green Urbanism: Balancing Environmental Justice with Gentrification
Posted on August 9, 2014 | 2 CommentsIs it possible for urban planners to make places more attractive and healthy, without then making them more expensive? Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow investigates recent research into the ongoing debate about environmental gentrification.Rio’s Favela Pacification: Militarized Gentrification With Benefits?
Posted on July 3, 2014 | No CommentsThe Brazilian government’s militarized efforts to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to some people living there, while others question the violent tactics and the whether it will make a difference. We provide counterpoint to Joshua Hammer's 2014 investigation.
