Jack Eidt, Author at WilderUtopia

Reverend Eddie Anderson, EcoJustice Radio

The People’s Budget LA and Reimagining Public Safety

June 18, 2020 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Reverend Eddie Anderson discusses the People’s Budget Los Angeles with EcoJustice Radio host Jessica Aldridge. He defines what it means to re-imagine policing and public safety, and how to ensure reinvestment back into Black communities. The institutions that run the USA continue to benefit from the repercussions of long-standing, systemic oppression and racism. How do we reinvent and re-imagine the power structures? How do we change the economic system and fund a budget that is community-centered?

Culture, EcoJustice Radio

Know Justice, Know Peace: 21 Generations

June 11, 2020 by Jack Eidt 4 comments

Listen to Rene Mims and Jaijae Kabasa, respected elders, community leaders and musicians speak with EcoJustice Radio from The World Stage in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park. They share with host Carry Kim deep ruminations on the past 21 generations of African American enslavement, the seeds of racism, and how it continues unabated today.

EcoJustice Radio

THE FUTURE: Solutions, Policy, & Resistance Around Plastic – Plastic Plague Pt 7

May 28, 2020 by Jack Eidt 8 comments

THE FUTURE: EcoJustice Radio explores how Solutions, Policy, & Resistance around plastic can elevate, inspire, and drive change at a systems-level approach. This is Part 7 of a special seven-part series called, “The Plastic Plague: Connecting the Dots between Extraction, Inequity, and Pollution.”

John D. Liu, ecosystem restoration, EcoJustice Radio

Earth, EcoJustice Radio

Ecosystem Restoration: “The Great Work of Our Time” with John D. Liu

May 21, 2020 by Jack Eidt 31 comments

Ecosystem Restoration Camps, part of John D. Liu’s “Great Work of Our Time,” are a methodology to regenerate degraded lands on a planetary scale. Carry Kim speaks with John, Ecosystem Ambassador and Founder and Advisory Council Chair of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation.

EcoJustice Radio

THE PARADIGM SHIFT: Reduction, Recycling, & Technology – Plastic Plague Pt. 6

May 14, 2020 by Jack Eidt 7 comments

THE PARADIGM SHIFT – EcoJustice Radio explores how reduction, recycling, and technology can create a paradigm shift that is solution oriented, equitable, and achievable. This is Part 6 of a special seven-part series called, “The Plastic Plague: Connecting the Dots between Extraction, Inequity, and Pollution.”

Planet of the Humans - Jeff Gibbs, Michael Moore

Energy, Environmental Issues

An Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’

May 14, 2020 by Jack Eidt 0 comments

The Michael Moore-produced, Jeff Gibbs video, Planet of the Humans, uses the capitalism onslaught that has caused disaster across the planet as an Earth Day opportunity to lob spitballs at environmental movements and prominent advocates. While it can’t even manage any more cogent solutions than vague assertions about curbing population and over-consumption, it also fails to see the monster who stands before it: the system, which needs to be overcome, immediately.

EcoJustice Radio, Sustainability

Green Banking: Toward A Regenerative Economy

May 8, 2020 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Now is the time to invest in a regenerative economy that supports climate finance at scale. Our banking and investment practices can proactively regenerate the planet and foster a clean, green economy that is both socially conscious and sustainable. EcoJustice Radio speaks with Tom Duncan of Earthbanc.

Author: Jack Eidt