An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
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Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
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A Farm Grows in LA: Urban Farming with Avenue 33
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Amazon Defenders Part Two: Criminalizing Activism – The Steven Donziger Case
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Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration
Posted on November 27, 2020 | No 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!
Peru Archive
Amazon Defenders Part One: Protecting Biodiversity from Big Oil
Posted on November 19, 2020 | 2 CommentsEcoJustice 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.
Field Guide to Adventures in Tropical Botany
Posted on May 16, 2017 | No CommentsField Guides to the Wild intrigue Naomi Pitcairn, sharing her adventures in scientific documentation of the wonders of nature, in this case the botanical wealth of the American Tropics.
China’s Latest Earth Assault: Trans-Amazonian Railway
Posted on May 23, 2015 | 1 CommentEnvironmentalists push back against more Chinese-financed plans to construct 5,300km (3,300-mile) route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to cut transport costs
Peru: lllegal Gold Mining versus Biodiversity and Ecotourism
Posted on April 9, 2014 | 2 CommentsA gold rush that accelerated with the onset of the 2008 global recession compounds the woes of the Amazon basin, laying waste to Peruvian rain forest and spilling tons of toxic mercury into the air and water.
Ayahuasca: Fake Shamans and The Divine Vine of Immortality
Posted on July 18, 2013 | 9 CommentsEvery day, more and more tourists arrive in Iquitos, Peru, seeking spiritual enlightenment or a psychedelic experience first made popular by William Burroughs and the Beatniks in the 1960s. Unfortunately, some well-paid "shamans" lack the experience or understanding of the powerful and sacred botanical brews used for thousands of years for healing and divination. And the gringos-on-holiday often get over their heads in the wilds of the Amazon.
Operation Condor: Eradicating South American “Communism” at Any Cost
Posted on March 14, 2013 | 2 CommentsIn the name of the struggle against terrorism, a special operation -- code named CONDOR - was conducted in the 1970s and 80s in South America. Its targets were left wing political dissidents, the organised labour and intellectuals. Condor soon became a network of military dictatorships, supported by the US State Department, the CIA and Interpol. A trial began in early March in Buenos Aires to attempt to bring to justice former dictators and military officers.
Other Worlds Documentary: The Cosmology of Ayahuasca
Posted on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments"Other Worlds," a documentary by French filmmaker Jan Kounen, is an informative journey into the cosmology of ayahuasca shamanism practiced in the Peruvian Amazon.
Destructive Progress: Brazil-Peru Transoceanic Highway
Posted on November 3, 2010 | 4 CommentsWith completion of the 3,400-mile Transoceanic Highway, the Amazonian state of Acre in Brazil now connects with the southern Pacific Coast of Peru, unleashing numerous impacts to the environment and indigenous people.
