An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Ecological Succession: Moving Toward Regeneration with Linda Gibbs
Posted on February 12, 2021 | 2 Comments - Recipe for Abuse: Palm Oil, Child Labor, and Girl Scout Cookies
Posted on February 5, 2021 | 1 Comment - Ch´ol Creation Story: The Origin of Life on Earth
Posted on February 4, 2021 | 2 Comments - Dam-Free: Indigenous Peoples Reclaim the Klamath River
Posted on January 28, 2021 | 2 Comments - Corridor of the Surreal: Silver Webb and Jack Eidt Talk ‘City of Illumination’
Posted on January 27, 2021 | 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!
rivers Archive
Flood Control to Free Rivers: The Tale of Water on Tongvalands
Posted on August 27, 2020 | 1 CommentEcoJustice Radio discusses the history of water upon Tongvalands aka Los Angeles: from free-flowing rivers to concrete-engineered flood control and back again Tim Brick of the Arroyo Seco Foundation and and Parker Davis of the Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery.On Wild Rivers, Hydroelectric Dams, and Whitewater Rafting the American
Posted on May 20, 2017 | 3 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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