An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Spoken Word: Challenging Mainstream Discourse on Climate
Posted on July 9, 2021 | 1 Comment - Stone Age Skills and Why Do We Need this Ancient Wisdom?
Posted on July 2, 2021 | 2 Comments - From Incarceration to Farming with ALMA Backyard Farms
Posted on June 18, 2021 | 2 Comments - Revitalizing Detroit One Hive At A Time with Detroit Hives
Posted on June 11, 2021 | 4 Comments - Wolakota Buffalo Range: Bringing Back Tatanka with Wizipan Little Elk
Posted on June 4, 2021 | 2 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!
Permaculture Archive
Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
Posted on February 25, 2021 | 2 CommentsTwo Los Angeles arborists talk urban forestry with EcoJustice Radio, and about the need to plant and care for trees to strengthen urban ecosystems and heal the climate.Ecological Succession: Moving Toward Regeneration with Linda Gibbs
Posted on February 12, 2021 | 3 CommentsPermaculture Educator Linda Gibbs from Woodshed Gardens speaks with EcoJustice Radio on Ecological Succession, Fire Resiliency, and Soil Regeneration Principles.A Farm Grows in LA: Urban Farming with Avenue 33
Posted on December 11, 2020 | 2 CommentsAvenue 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.Radical Mycology: The Future is Fungi with Peter McCoy
Posted on October 16, 2020 | 3 CommentsEcoJustice 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.After the Burn: The Benefits of Bioremediation with Taylor Bright
Posted on October 2, 2020 | 2 CommentsListen to applied mycologist, educator, and ecosystem restoration practitioner Taylor Bright, speak with Carry Kim from EcoJustice Radio in detail about post-fire remediation and regeneration, particularly mycoremediation, where fungi-based technology is used to decontaminate the environment and heal the water and soil.Permaculture Lessons From Fire: Restoring Paradise with Matthew Trumm
Posted on September 17, 2020 | 2 CommentsHear Permaculture Designer/Educator & consultant Matthew Trumm of Treetop Permaculture discuss lessons learned during the Camp Fire which burned through the town of Paradise, California, in November 2018. At the time, it was the most devastating wildfire in California history, burning 240 square miles in its wake.Ecosystem Restoration: “The Great Work of Our Time” with John D. Liu
Posted on May 21, 2020 | 11 CommentsEcosystem Restoration Camps, part of John D. Liu's "Great Work of Our Time," are a methodology to regenerate degraded lands on a planetary scale. Carry Kim speaks with John, Ecosystem Ambassador and Founder and Advisory Council Chair of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation.The BirdHouse: Reconnecting People & Place through Arts & Ecology
Posted on April 8, 2020 | 1 CommentOn this episode of EcoJustice Radio, we visit with the members of an inspiring community garden and culture-space called The BirdHouse, in Hollywood, CA.Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things
Posted on February 9, 2019 | 4 CommentsWe have forgotten the flocks of passenger pigeons that blotted out the sun, the herds of bison that shook the ground, and the untamed places in which we destroyed them. This is ecological amnesia. This capacity to forget, this fluidity of memory, has dire implications in a world dense with people, all desperate to satisfy their immediate material needs. Yet, the way forward is land and water protection and regeneration, permaculture, and community reconnection with the wild.Creating Resilient Ecosystems & Regenerating the Planet – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on December 26, 2018 | 1 CommentErik Ohlsen is the director of the Permaculture Skills Center, a vocational training school that offers advanced education in ecological design, landscaping, farming, and land stewardship. Creator of the the Eco-Landscape Mastery School online training program, Erik is also founder of Permaculture Artisans which specializes in design and installation of ecological landscapes and farms throughout California. Carry Kim interviews him on EcoJustice Radio.Convivial Degrowth: An Ecologic Reckoning for an Ailing Planet
Posted on December 6, 2014 | No CommentsThe model planners and economists touted as "sustainable development" has only exacerbated ecologic distress and community dislocation through its focus on wealth-creation. The needs of our ailing planet facing an impending 11 billion population calls for ecology and human welfare to dominate economy, but how to achieve this in a world bought and paid for by finance capitalism?Starhawk: Hope in the Time of Climate Change
Posted on December 3, 2014 | 1 CommentAs the full moon approached and the winter solstice upcoming ~ on Sun Dec 7, 2014 in LA, Starhawk joined a conscious community including SoCal 350 Climate Action Coalition, collectively co-creating a vision of a just transition away from climate- and ecosystem-damaging fossil fuels and industrial agriculture to a sustainable permaculture-oriented new world!Soil and Nutrition: No-Till Organics and Carbon Sequestration
Posted on September 14, 2014 | 3 CommentsEveryone needs vitamins and minerals like potassium, calcium, magnesium and others to stay strong and healthy. Courtney White describes in an excerpt from his book Grass, Soil, Hope how industrial farming has decreased these essential nutrients in our food and using regenerative agriculture practices we can get them back while offsetting a large amount of greenhouse gases.Permaculture: Sustainable Antidote to Agribusiness and Consumer Culture
Posted on October 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsBill Mollison (born 1928 in Tasmania, Australia) is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher and naturalist, and one of the foremost advocates for permaculture, or permanent agriculture. Following is a documentary on Mollison and his ideas.Communal Utopia: The Farm in Rural Tennessee
Posted on October 9, 2013 | 16 CommentsOnce the largest hippie commune in the US, the Farm persists as an intentional community in rural Tennessee, based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. It now advocates permaculture, sustainable and renewable energy, a vegetarian diet, and midwifery.Earth Sheltered Homes: Energy-Efficient, Living With the Land
Posted on May 6, 2013 | 8 CommentsEarth Sheltered, energy-efficient houses are bright, airy, dry and quiet. Though popular now among advocates of passive solar and sustainable architecture, Earth Sheltering has been around for nearly as long as humans have constructed their homes.Detroit Works: Urban Farming and Reforestation as Neighborhood Preservation
Posted on August 9, 2012 | 21 CommentsDetroit Future City, the long-term planning vision for the long-rusting Motor City, embraces the urban farming, permaculture, and ecological urbanism movements seen in cities across the United States, to chart the way to more a prosperous and sustainable future.2012 Transformations: Radical Intention Setting in Los Angeles
Posted on January 3, 2012 | No CommentsDeborah Eden Tull will hold a gathering at the Hub in Santa Monica on January 22nd to set a radical agenda for transformation in 2012.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.Permaculture: Land-Based System of Human Rewilding
Posted on May 21, 2011 | 9 CommentsPermaculture is an integrative approach to re-creating sustainable cities, towns and villages, emulating ecologic relationships from wild nature. The practice encompasses architecture, horticulture, energy, waste management, and urban planning.The (un)Quiet Revolution: Permaculture (Documentary)
Posted on May 15, 2011 | 1 CommentThe documentary, 'Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution' investigates communal-self-reliance and economic-environmental sustainability through permanent (agri)culture or permaculture.
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