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’
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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!
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The Pagan Spring Fertility Origins of May Day
Posted on May 1, 2019 | 1 CommentMay Day (May 1) marks the return of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, with origins in ancient agricultural rituals to ensure fertility, handed down from the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Later permutations included the Celtic festival of Beltane and Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half a year from All Saints Day (November 1), and cross-quarter day with pagan overtones. Today, this ancient festival survives, including gathering wildflowers and decorating a May tree or Maypole, around which people dance, and some use it for political protest in association with International Workers Day.Orwell’s Dystopian Vision Happening Now
Posted on August 16, 2014 | 1 CommentJohn Pilger writes on how George Orwell's dystopian vision of the future in 1984 is happening today in the form of media manipulation and unnecessary wars, and the movement goes unchallenged.Maori War Dance Commemorates Battle Victory Against British
Posted on July 5, 2014 | 1 CommentThe Maori People of Tauranga staged a 150-year commemoration of a victory in the last major battle against the British in a losing effort from the New Zealand Wars, that resulted in significant confiscation of their lands and autonomy.J. G. Ballard: Atrocity Exhibition and the Modernist Motorcar Dystopia
Posted on December 27, 2013 | 2 Comments"The Atrocity Exhibition" is J.G. Ballard’s instruction manual in how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. Watch the piece on Ballard and the Motorcar, that careens across the landscape of his controversial novel, "Crash."Biofuels from Seaweed: A More Sustainable Energy Source?
Posted on July 1, 2013 | No CommentsMany millions are being invested in seaweed research from Vietnam to Israel to Chile because producing biofuels in the sea overcomes many of the serious problems with conventional biofuels.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.
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