An Array of Utopian Flowers
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An Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’
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Green Banking: Toward A Regenerative Economy
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THE BOTTLE SCAM: Land, Water, and Indigenous Rights – Plastic Plague Pt. 5
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THROWAWAY SOCIETY: Economics & Inequity of (Plastic) Consumption – Plastic Plague Pt 4
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The BirdHouse: Reconnecting People & Place through Arts & Ecology
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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!
wildlife Archive
Palm Oil and Orangutans – The Oily Truth & What We Can Do
Posted on January 23, 2020 | No CommentsOn this EcoJustice Radio episode, we discuss what is happening in Indonesia and elsewhere around Palm Oil extraction, expansion, and exploitation. Our guest has been involved with orangutans for 46 years and has been working tirelessly to secure and protect the orangutan populations through creating more regenerative and equitable solutions around Palm Oil production.
Anthropocene Arrives, Climate Collapses, and No One Cares
Posted on February 17, 2018 | 2 CommentsClive Hamilton writes on how governments, people, corporations, the world continues to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy.
Wolves Howl in 21 Different Tongues, So to Speak
Posted on March 24, 2017 | 1 CommentAs US Republicans take aim at wolves in Alaska, research into their vocalizations found multiple identifiable "dialects" that establish differences between species.
Wild Cuba: Accidental Eden, Endangered
Posted on November 30, 2015 | No CommentsCuba may have been restricted politically and economically for the past 50 years, but its borders have remained open to wildlife for which Cuba’s undeveloped islands are an irresistible draw.
Last Wild Bison Persist Despite Montana Wildlife Politics
Posted on March 12, 2014 | 2 CommentsA twenty-year old activist blocked the access road to Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap, preventing more of the last wild bison from being shipped to slaughter. As well, the Montana Supreme Court recently supported efforts to expand bison migratory habitat north of the park in the Gardiner Basin.
Sylvia Earle: Ocean Ecosystem Sustainability By 2050
Posted on December 9, 2013 | 2 CommentsHumans are consuming the ocean’s resources at an alarming rate. How do we sustain this vital ecosystem for generations to come? National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle outlines some of the ways to protect the health of the earth's biggest ecosystem.
Dead Sparrow Awakening – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on December 4, 2013 | No CommentsJerry Collamer muses on the sanctity of life, the impact and burden of death, and the awakening of a child to the reality of the world.
Welcome to Loliondo: Maasai Struggle Against Game Hunters for Land Rights
Posted on November 27, 2013 | No CommentsThe Loliondo Game Controlled Area (LGCA), one of Tanzania’s most well-known Maasai community concessions and wildlife destinations, is in the spotlight as local stakeholders and outside financial interests clash over its natural resources. Watch "Welcome to Loliondo," a documentary on how the Maasai confront the threat of safari tourism taking away their land.
Hunters Beware: The Wild Things are Taking it Back
Posted on September 19, 2013 | No CommentsIn the Court of the Forest, the captured hunter is released into the wild...naked, to seek his sport-kill with nothing but his wits.
Jay Mallonee on Roaming with the Wolf Pack
Posted on August 26, 2013 | 2 CommentsPolitics, not sound wolf scientific research, has influenced the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s efforts toward removing gray wolves across the country from the protection of the Endangered Species Act. Jay Mallonee, researcher from Wolf & Wildlife Studies, has found that left alone, wolves regulate their own populations with highly sophisticated social interactions within the pack. Unfortunately, the hunting and ranching lobbies don't support the theory we should learn to live with top predators as a necessity for ecosystem health.
BaVenda of South Africa: How Animals Got Their Color
Posted on July 30, 2013 | 1 CommentThe BaVenda (also known as Venda), a Bantu tribe living in Southern Africa, tell a traditional myth about how the meerkat gave all the animals their special colors.
Inuit People: Melting Ice, Shifting Stars, North not North
Posted on September 24, 2011 | No CommentsInuit communities, elders and hunters, speak regarding social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic and their conception of poles shifting, winds different, stars unrecognized. A Labrador Inuit Aurora Borealis myth illuminates their traditional connection with the stars.
