An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Amazon Defenders Part One: Protecting Biodiversity from Big Oil
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The Fight for Self Determination between Armenia and Azerbaijan
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LA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community
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Radical Mycology: The Future is Fungi with Peter McCoy
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After the Burn: The Benefits of Bioremediation with Taylor Bright
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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!
Malaysia Archive
Palm Oil and Orangutans – The Oily Truth & What We Can Do
Posted on January 23, 2020 | 1 CommentOn this EcoJustice Radio episode, we discuss what is happening in Indonesia and elsewhere around Palm Oil extraction, expansion, and exploitation. Our guest has been involved with orangutans for 46 years and has been working tirelessly to secure and protect the orangutan populations through creating more regenerative and equitable solutions around Palm Oil production.
Baram Dam: Protecting Wild Borneo, One Blockade at a Time
Posted on December 19, 2015 | No CommentsIn the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, rampant industrial destruction is being stopped by people banding together to protect their communities, and the land. The Baram Dam proposal was just put on hold in response to a two year protest. But threats, and the corruption behind them, will continue.
An Orangutan’s Journey Though Palm Oil Killing Fields
Posted on December 8, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe film "Green" documents deforestation and orangutan extinction in the Indonesian rainforest. It is a silent film (without narration) presenting the treasures of rainforest biodiversity and the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations.
Indonesia: Peat Swamp Forest Protection Key to Climate
Posted on July 22, 2014 | 3 CommentsDuring the dry season in Sumatra, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of Indonesian peatland fires burn for months, releasing its massive storehouse of organic carbon. Those fires are a direct result of decades of forest and peatland destruction, which must be protected writes Loren Bell, saving ecosystems, air quality, and the global climate.
Papua New Guinea: Rainforest World of Sustainable River Guardians
Posted on January 9, 2013 | 5 CommentsThe Sacred Land Film Project captured a revival of a canoe ceremony with feasting, dancing and carving, honoring their sacred Ramu River. The region is part of the third largest intact rainforest ecosystem left on earth, where sustainable agriculture and forestry practices have allowed societies to thrive for thousands of years, now threatened by multinational logging interests and corrupt governmental entities.
Elephants in Borneo: Need Lowland Forest Range
Posted on March 9, 2012 | 2 CommentsForest fragmentation and destruction is imperiling the Bornean elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis), according to a new paper published in PLoS ONE. Using satellite collars to track the pachyderms for the first time in the Malaysian state of Sabah, scientists found elephants sensitive to habitat fragmentation from palm oil plantations and logging.
Papua New Guinea: Logging’s “Big Damage” to Forests and Humanity
Posted on January 19, 2012 | 2 CommentsA documentary from David Fedele allows Papua New Guinean villagers to tell their own story of broken promises and destruction from Malaysian companies logging of their forests.
