The Outpost, Author at WilderUtopia

Chumash Elder Speaks on Healing Humanity and the Climate

February 23, 2014 by The Outpost 4 comments

Art Cisneros is a Chumash elder and firekeeper. The Chumash People are the original native peoples of the central California Coast. Art holds the sacred space for their annual Tomol crossing to Limu on the Channel Islands. Lately, he has undertaken a series of ceremonies focused on healing humanity’s relationship with the climate, responding to the ongoing drought and extreme weather, prayers that he shared with the people at the Great March for Climate Action LA Launch on March 1, 2014, in the Port of Los Angeles.

Energy

Stanford Scientist Plans US Transformation to Clean Energy

February 23, 2014 by The Outpost 2 comments

Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson and his colleagues recently developed detailed plans to transform the energy infrastructure of New York, California and Washington states from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable resources by 2050.

Tar Sands

XL Dissent: Activists Speak Out for Clean Energy, Mother Earth

February 8, 2014 by The Outpost 1 comment

While activists in Los Angeles and across the US spoke out against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Dave Pruett writes on its threatened environmental triple-whammy, poorly documented in the latest State Department environmental report heading toward the President’s desk. Protests are planned March 1-2 in Washington DC as part of “XL Dissent” and March 1 in Los Angeles with the Great March for Climate Action.

narcotrafficking, deforestation, Honduras

Earth

Honduras: Narcotrafficking Leads to Native Dispossession, Deforestation

February 7, 2014 by The Outpost 4 comments

In the isolated region of La Mosquitia, Honduras, narco-traffickers act as shock troops in the assault on native Miskitu, Tawahka, and Pech homelands, ruthlessly dispossessing residents and rapaciously converting forest commons to private pasture primed for sale to multinational corporations.

$hydraulic fracturing fracking California$

Energy

Fracking California: Oil Boom Bonanza a Dirty Desert Mirage

January 30, 2014 by The Outpost 2 comments

The latest target of the unconventional oil craze is California hydraulic fracturing (fracking) the Monterey Shale in the central and southern parts of the state. With wildly optimistic predictions of an economic bonanza, the oil is carbon-intensive, requires massive amounts of fresh water, creates industrial pollution and seismic risk, and is impossible to regulate effectively because of significant scientific unknowns.

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Design

Small Architecture: On Glass Houses Built Over Stone

January 29, 2014 by The Outpost 2 comments

In 2012, Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz quit their jobs for a time to build a West Virginia mountain hideaway cabin, a tiny summer house made with recycled windows. This is the result.

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Humanity

Dominican Republic: Modern Day Sugarcane Slavery

January 26, 2014 by The Outpost 7 comments

On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Watch the documentary film, “The Price of Sugar.”

Author: The Outpost