The Outpost, Author at WilderUtopia

Empowering Community Through Urban Farming – EcoJustice Radio

June 27, 2018 by The Outpost 5 comments

Learn how our “wasted resources” have direct social, economic and environmental impacts and how local groups are creating local solutions. This episode’s guests are tackling the environmental issues of soil health and wasted organics, all the while building community roots and social equity through local composting and thriving urban farms.
This episode’s guests are tackling the environmental issues of soil health and wasted organics, all the while building community roots and social equity through local composting and thriving urban farms.

EcoJustice Radio

EcoJustice Radio – Overdevelopment and Community Pushback in Inglewood – Episode 14

June 20, 2018 by The Outpost 0 comments

Hear from Woodrow Curry, lifelong resident and lead organizer for the grassroots coalition Uplift Inglewood, talking with host and executive producer of EcoJustice Radio Mark Morris about the ongoing community pushback against overdevelopment in the area.

EcoJustice Radio

EcoJustice Radio – Food Equity, Food Recovery, and the Climate Connection – Episode 13

June 17, 2018 by The Outpost 0 comments

Each year, up to 40% food in the United States is not eaten from production to plate contributing to the largest source of waste in our landfill (organics) and the second largest source of anthropogenic methane gas in California. All the while, there are 1.5 million Los Angelenos who are food insecure.

Humanity

The Lucrative and Violent Curse of Coltan Mining in Congo

March 3, 2018 by The Outpost 5 comments

One of Africa’s most rare-minerals-rich countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo, has endured Belgian colonization, slavery, and continuing atrocities, where militant groups control the extraction of “conflict resources.” The tech industry turns these extracted raw materials into components of mobile phones and computers. Yet the cost is deadly.

Sound, Urban Land

Iannis Xenakis and the Notion of a Cosmic Utopia

February 21, 2018 by The Outpost 1 comment

Iannis Xenakis, the Greek-French experimental composer and protege designer for the famous architect Le Corbusier, advanced theories of the vertical “Cosmic” city as the only sustainable way forward. Here, he wrote this essay in 1966, decrying decentralization (read: suburban sprawl) in favor of building up, up, up…5 million inhabitants to be housed in a single megastructure, a hyperbolic paraboloid of more than 3,000 meters high and 50 meters wide.

Climate, Earth

Anthropocene Arrives, Climate Collapses, and No One Cares

February 17, 2018 by The Outpost 2 comments

Clive 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.

EcoJustice Radio

Amazon Oil Drilling and the LA Connection – EcoJustice Radio

February 2, 2018 by The Outpost 0 comments

Is driving your car in LA destroying the Amazon rainforest? Hear Zoe Cina-Sklar, Campaigner for Amazon Watch, discuss the “End Amazon Crude” campaign and discover the numerous connections between LA’s oil addiction and preservation of the rainforest.

Author: The Outpost