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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Archive

EcoJustice Radio – Waste Colonization and Plastic Pollution – Episode 19
Posted on August 26, 2018 | No Comments
How do we confront the swirling gyres of plastic pollution dumped into our oceans? In this show, we examine the social and environmental implications of wasted resources, and follow two interrelated approaches to solving the problem from an indigenous woman doing exemplary work in New Zealand and an LA-based plastics pollution fighter.
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Plastic Ocean: Deep Sea Garbage Endangers Marine Ecosystem
Posted on July 8, 2013 | 2 Comments
While the Great Pacific Garbage Patch continues to grow, a paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows that trash is accumulating in the deep sea, particularly in Monterey Canyon, off the coast of California. This causes dire impacts to the marine ecosystem and humans who thrive from it.
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Midway Atoll: The Plastic Plight of the Albatross
Posted on October 9, 2012 | 26 Comments
A short film follows artist Chris Jordan to investigate the thousands of albatrosses dying from ingestion of plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. The Albatross journey across the sea takes them over the world’s largest dump: slowly rotating masses of partially-submerged trash between San Francisco and Hawai’i.
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An Array of Utopian Flowers
- Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
  Posted on January 9, 2021 | 1 Comment
- Seventh Generation: The Voice and Leadership of Indigenous Youth
  Posted on January 7, 2021 | No Comments
- Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
  Posted on December 17, 2020 | 2 Comments
- 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
  Posted on December 3, 2020 | 2 Comments
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‘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!

Featured Stories
- Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
  Posted on January 9, 2021 | 1 Comment
  Jack Eidt from WilderUtopia.com had a chat with novelist Max Talley about the recent book he curated and contributed two stories to, called Delirium Corridor, A Dark Anthology, from Borda Books/Santa Barbara Literary Journal.
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- Seventh Generation: The Voice and Leadership of Indigenous Youth
  Posted on January 7, 2021 | No Comments
  EcoJustice Radio spoke with emboldened and empowered youth activists, Alexis (Lex) Saenz and Yulu Wek of the International Indigenous Youth Council. Listen to their stories of reclaiming and living into […]
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- Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
  Posted on December 17, 2020 | 2 Comments
  EcoJustice 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.
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- A Farm Grows in LA: Urban Farming with Avenue 33
  Posted on December 11, 2020 | 1 Comment
  Avenue 33 Farm is reestablishing Indigenous farming methods to an urban Los Angeles hillside using permaculture and regenerative principles. Listen to the interview on EcoJustice Radio.
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- Amazon Defenders Part Two: Criminalizing Activism – The Steven Donziger Case
  Posted on December 3, 2020 | 2 Comments
  EcoJustice 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
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- Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration
  Posted on November 27, 2020 | No Comments
  In this EcoJustice Radio episode we talk about cultural fire with Elizabeth Azzuz from the Cultural Fire Management Council, traditional Native methods of prescribed burning to protect forests and heal degraded ecosystems.
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- Amazon Defenders Part One: Protecting Biodiversity from Big Oil
  Posted on November 19, 2020 | 2 Comments
  EcoJustice 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.
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- The Fight for Self Determination between Armenia and Azerbaijan
  Posted on November 6, 2020 | No Comments
  In this episode of EcoJustice Radio, we seek to gain a broader understanding of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We discuss the fight for self determination over the region known as Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh, with guests Vache Thomassian, Glendale Board Member of Armenian National Committee of America and Dr. Djene Bajalan, Assistant Professor at Missouri State University.
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- LA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community
  Posted on October 29, 2020 | No Comments
  Recently, the City of Los Angeles public utility admitted that its Valley Generating Station had been leaking methane gas into the community for three years. The utility knew about the leaks as part of efforts to fix two compressors, but failed to notify the community. Veronica Padilla-Campos, Executive Director of Pacoima Beautiful joins EcoJustice Radio for, “Broken Trust: LA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community.”
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- Radical Mycology: The Future is Fungi with Peter McCoy
  Posted on October 16, 2020 | 1 Comment
  EcoJustice Radio speaks with Peter McCoy, Founder of Mycologos, the world's first mycology school, and Founder and Creative Director of Radical Mycology, a mushroom and fungi advocacy foundation. He and host Carry Kim discuss the grassroots movement and social philosophy behind using regenerative natural mushroom farming to promote ecological restoration and create food and medicines.
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