Vital Ground Foundation Archive

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• Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
  Posted on February 25, 2021 | 2 Comments

  Two Los Angeles arborists talk urban forestry with EcoJustice Radio, and about the need to plant and care for trees to strengthen urban ecosystems and heal the climate.

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• The Call to Decolonize: Thoughts, Actions, and Spaces
  Posted on February 18, 2021 | No Comments

  Listen to Marria Evbuoma of Race to Zero Waste in San Francisco talk with EcoJustice Radio about the social justice meaning and importance of decolonization in thoughts, actions, and spaces.

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• Ecological Succession: Moving Toward Regeneration with Linda Gibbs
  Posted on February 12, 2021 | 2 Comments

  Permaculture Educator Linda Gibbs from Woodshed Gardens speaks with EcoJustice Radio on Ecological Succession, Fire Resiliency, and Soil Regeneration Principles.

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• Recipe for Abuse: Palm Oil, Child Labor, and Girl Scout Cookies
  Posted on February 5, 2021 | 1 Comment

  EcoJustice Radio discusses the dangers palm oil plantations present to tropical rainforest biodiversity and Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. We talk with Olivia Chaffin, […]

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• Ch´ol Creation Story: The Origin of Life on Earth
  Posted on February 4, 2021 | 2 Comments

  Here we re-tell the creation myth of Ch'ujtiat from the Ch'ol People. Stories director Gabriela Badillo’s 68 Voices, 68 Hearts, a series of one-minute animations that preserve indigenous Mexican stories with narration provided by native speakers.

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• Dam-Free: Indigenous Peoples Reclaim the Klamath River
  Posted on January 28, 2021 | 2 Comments

  An agreement announced in November 2020 paves the way for demolition of four hydroelectric dams on the Lower Klamath River, the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This would reopen […]

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• Corridor of the Surreal: Silver Webb and Jack Eidt Talk ‘City of Illumination’
  Posted on January 27, 2021 | No Comments

  Jack Eidt talks with Silver Webb on his surreal trip to the Underworld story "City of Illumination," published by Borda Books in Delirium Corridor, A Dark Anthology, curated by Max Talley. It includes fifteen tales of psychological suspense, altered states, noir crime, and the surreal. 

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• Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
  Posted on January 9, 2021 | 2 Comments

  Jack Eidt from WilderUtopia.com had a chat with novelist Max Talley about the recent book he curated and contributed two stories to, called Delirium Corridor, A Dark Anthology, from Borda Books/Santa Barbara Literary Journal.

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• Seventh Generation: The Voice and Leadership of Indigenous Youth
  Posted on January 7, 2021 | 1 Comment

  EcoJustice Radio spoke with emboldened and empowered youth activists, Alexis (Lex) Saenz and Yulu Wek of the International Indigenous Youth Council. Listen to their stories of reclaiming and living into […]

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• Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
  Posted on December 17, 2020 | 2 Comments

  EcoJustice Radio celebrates the land and water protectors of the Amazon Rainforest in a Four-Part series called Amazon Defenders. In Part Three we discuss the Indigenous rights movement for community and ecosystem health in Brazil and the six US-based financial institutions complicit in deforestation, fires, and rainforest destruction.

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