An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Regenerative Responses: Growing The Soil Carbon Sponge
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How Urban Forestry Can Cool the Climate and Promote Social Equity
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Sampling of Found Sound – Composer Pierre Henry
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Youth Climate Strike Takes Over Downtown Los Angeles
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Bottles And Cans Recycling: A Social Contract In Peril
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal releases ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ this June, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
rivers Archive
On Wild Rivers, Hydroelectric Dams, and Whitewater Rafting the American
Posted on May 20, 2017 | 2 CommentsPristine beauty, danger, and wild risk make Whitewater River Rafting on the Middle Fork of the American River a must-face-seeming-death for paddlers. Despite a healthy Sierra Nevada snowpack, this free-flowing river stretch brings up questions of water sustainability and the zombie Auburn Dam proposal, among others. Why is dam removal an important movement? And what about the folly of plans to build 3,700 new not-so-clean hydroelectric dams across the world?
Flint, It’s People, It’s River, Overcomes
Posted on March 8, 2016 | No CommentsThe documentary “Here’s To Flint” examines the origins of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and the determined efforts of residents, activists and researchers to learn the truth about the city’s lead-contaminated drinking water.
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.
DamNation: On Dam Removal, Salmon and Wild Flowing Rivers
Posted on April 8, 2014 | 1 CommentDamNation explores the history of dams in the US and the movement to tear down these "engineering marvels" and rediscover the wild flowing rivers and the ecosystems they nourish.
LA River: An Urban Ecosystem Makeover in Transition
Posted on September 16, 2013 | 1 CommentAfter seven years of study, federal officials have recommended a $453-million plan that would restore an 11-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River but leave much of its banks steep and hard to reach. Advocates will continue to press for a more ambitious alternative that would bring more people to the river, improving parks and recreation as well as ecosystems.
Reclaiming Houston: Greening of the Bayou
Posted on February 10, 2012 | 2 CommentsEven Houston, the fossil-fuel-driven, no-zoning-free-market-build-here-there-everywhere-city has found its sustainable voice with the water-park-wildlife-habitat reclamation of Buffalo Bayou.
Honduras: Patuca River Dams Threaten Indigenous Survival
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 9 CommentsThe Moskitia is the largest, most biodiverse expanse of tropical wilderness north of the Amazon Basin – and the Indigenous Peoples who live there are determined to keep it that way. Unfortunately, no greater threat exists to the natural wealth hidden in the "Mesoamerican Biological Corridor" than the gigantic, transnational Patuca II, IIA, and III Dams.
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