An Array of Utopian Flowers
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![Carry Kim talks with Rev. Adelia Sandoval, the Spiritual Leader for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians/Acjachemen Nation. The Acjachemen people are the indigenous people of Orange County in Southern […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Adelia-Sandoval-Acjachemen-Wisdom-Day-Jack-Eidt-36x36.jpg "Earth-Honoring Traditions of the Acjachemen with Spiritual Leader Adelia Sandoval")
Earth-Honoring Traditions of the Acjachemen with Spiritual Leader Adelia Sandoval
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Pasture Based Carbon Farming with SonRise Ranch – EcoJustice Radio
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Green New Deal Tour Comes to Los Angeles – EcoJustice Radio
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Public Banking and a Sustainable Economy – EcoJustice Radio
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Women in Politics and the Environment – EcoJustice Radio
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‘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!
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![Tejon Ranch Centennial Specific Plan (or Centennial) is a massive planned city in a unique, rare, fire-prone wilderness of grasslands and mountains, a residential and commercial development in LA County. […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Centennial-1-Nick-Jensen-115x115.jpg "Centennial Project: Suburbs Sprawl, Health & Environment Suffers – EcoJustice Radio")
Centennial Project: Suburbs Sprawl, Health & Environment Suffers – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on November 26, 2018 | No CommentsTejon Ranch Centennial Specific Plan (or Centennial) is a massive planned city in a unique, rare, fire-prone wilderness of grasslands and mountains, a residential and commercial development in LA County. […]
Autonomous Cars Will Drive Sustainable Cities Backward
Posted on March 26, 2017 | No CommentsUrban sustainability depends upon reducing energy from automobile usage and maximizing transportation efficiency through public trains, streetcars, electric buses, and people movers. The companies developing autonomous cars could not care less: they offer on-demand private transport for the masses, with specific intent to move people back to cars.
Arcosanti: Paolo Soleri’s Visionary Eco-City Prototype in Arizona
Posted on January 18, 2013 | 6 CommentsA visionary eco-city in the Arizona desert, Arcosanti is an urban laboratory created by Paolo Soleri. Based on the concept of Arcology, or ecological architecture, it presents a compact, sustainable, energy-efficient urban form that confronts environmental destruction, economic collapse, and social dislocation.
BioMilano: Italian Eco-Vision Grows 26-Storey Vertical Forest
Posted on January 15, 2013 | 2 CommentsBosco Verticale or Vertical Forest, the first phase of BioMilano, a re-envisioning of Milan, Italy, with an eye toward ecological urbanism, integrating tree and skyscraper, city and wild.
Detroit Works: Urban Farming and Reforestation as Neighborhood Preservation
Posted on August 9, 2012 | 18 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.
Singapore: Gardens By The Bay Sprout Supertrees and Horticultural Conservatories
Posted on July 25, 2012 | No CommentsGigantic steel, concrete and wire trees rise from manicured serpentine gardens, human-blessed symmetry reaching skyward. At the bay’s edge, two sustainably-designed domes invite visitors to explore world biomes and horticultural paradises. A public amusement park, ecological urbanism designed to invite the populace to rediscover the earth, a visit to Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay evokes a green wonderland, human-designed, artistically crafted, growing "wild" and sort-of-natural.
Hello Urbanism: Southern California Sprawl Grows Up
Posted on April 18, 2012 | 3 CommentsSouthern California's new Sustainable Communities Strategy plan posits that as a region, we have to grow up, not out. That doesn't mean Hong Kong skyscrapers, but more apartments near light-rail stations and vibrant mixed-use areas like the ones in downtown Pasadena.
Ecological Urbanism: A City Green Re-Imagination
Posted on April 17, 2012 | 12 CommentsWe must view the fragility of the planet, the disaster of our resource addiction, the warming of the earth's atmosphere as an immune response to our daily environmental mis-stepping, a call for a re-conceptualization of our cities. We must demand a retrofitting of our urban environments to live together more efficiently, giving credence to community, allowing space for the open wild in us and them.
How to Build a Greener City – By Michael Totty
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsWe must re-create cities greener and more sustainable from the ground up. The goal: compact living environments requiring less resources that maximize utilization of land, water and energy. Here are some suggestions.
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.
Philadelphia Green Building: Net-Zero Mixed-Use River Redevelopment
Posted on January 25, 2012 | No CommentsA pioneering green developer in Philadelphia plans the largest "Passive House" mixed-use energy-net-zero redevelopment along the banks of the Schuylkill River.
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.
