An Array of Utopian Flowers
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The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
Posted on November 27, 2022 | No Comments - Indigenous Voices from the Northeast: Past, Present and Future
Posted on November 26, 2022 | 1 Comment - Microplastics Are Everywhere: What’s The Risk?
Posted on November 22, 2022 | No Comments - Solving the Climate Crisis Through Global Soil Health with Didi Pershouse
Posted on November 20, 2022 | No Comments - Visionary Art of Lakota Sundance Chief Marvin Swallow
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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!
EcoJustice Radio Archive
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Indigenous Voices from the Northeast: Past, Present and Future
Posted on November 26, 2022 | 1 CommentJoin our EcoJustice Radio guest, Jennifer Lee, Northern Naragansett Grandmother, bark basket maker, and culture bearer, Board Member of the Nolumbeka Project, as she provides histories, insights and perspectives of Native Peoples of the Northeast. -
Microplastics Are Everywhere: What’s The Risk?
Posted on November 22, 2022 | No CommentsDr. Scott Coffin has been studying plastic since 2014. He is a toxicologist and Research Scientist at California State Water Resources Control Board speaks with EcoJustice Radio about how microplastics are entering our environment, as well as ways to reduce exposure and solutions to the plastic plague. -
Solving the Climate Crisis Through Global Soil Health with Didi Pershouse
Posted on November 20, 2022 | No CommentsDidi Pershouse of Land & Leadership Initiative shares with EcoJustice Radio how Nature leads in restoring global soil health by creating a soil sponge, in collaboration with other plant, animal, and insect species and countless microorganisms. -
Circular Fashion: Designing for Equity & Environment
Posted on November 2, 2022 | No CommentsThe Circular Fashion movement gives new life and adds value to clothing and to help people loving clothes they already own for much longer. Listen to the EcoJustice Radio interview with Karri Ann Frerichs of Circular Fashion LA. -
Sow A Heart Farm: Regeneration and Rethinking Food Systems
Posted on October 26, 2022 | No CommentsBy increasing biodiversity, integrating animals, organic regenerative farming creates healthy soil that keeps water and carbon in the ground. Check out this interview with Mollie Engelhart from Sow a Heart Farm on her journey from vegan chef to regenerative farmer. -
Poetry & Politics: City on the Second Floor with Matt Sedillo
Posted on October 18, 2022 | No CommentsOne of the best political poets today, Matt Sedillo discusses and recites poetry from his book City on the Second Floor. -
Re:wild Your Campus: Supporting Health, Biodiversity, and Climate
Posted on October 11, 2022 | No CommentsThe organization Re:wild Your Campus empowers students to convert university campuses and schools to organic land care across the continent and they are succeeding. Listen to Rose Williamson and Sheina Crystal of Re:wild Your Campus as they share their aims to continue until toxic herbicides have been eliminated at every school on this continent. -
Reclaiming Land, Culture, & Narrative Through Black, Indigenous, & Queer Stewardship
Posted on October 3, 2022 | 1 CommentShelterwood Collective, a Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ-led community forest and retreat center in Sonoma County, California, advocates that ecosystem health can be achieved by communities who are in deep relationship with the Earth and with one another. -
Historic Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti
Posted on September 26, 2022 | No CommentsWe air news review excerpts covering historic political transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti with members of the No Alibi Collective from UCSB. Hosted by Elizabeth Robinson, commentators are Jack Eidt, Santa Barbara Professors Gerard Pigeon and Katia McClain, and Hector Javkin. -
Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration
Posted on September 20, 2022 | 3 CommentsEcoJustice Radio talked about cultural fire with Elizabeth Azzuz from the Cultural Fire Management Council, traditional Native Karuk methods of prescribed burning to protect forests and heal degraded ecosystems. -
How to Establish a Food Forest with Jim Gale
Posted on September 11, 2022 | No CommentsWe talk with Jim Gale to discuss his organization Food Forest Abundance, dedicated to food ecosystems for the individual and family through establishing yards and urban fields for growing agricultural provisions, to improve self-reliance and connection with the land. -
Port Arthur Texas: Community Resistance vs. the Climate Change Nexus with John Beard
Posted on September 4, 2022 | 1 CommentJohn Beard Jr., of Port Arthur Community Action Network, is mobilizing the Gulf Coast for health and safety protections on the oil and gas industry that has caused high levels of illness and risk for accidents from industrial facilities located near residents and vulnerable ecosystems, all subject to major impacts from climate-change-fueled hurricanes and floods. -
Going Local: Drought Resilience and Soil Regeneration
Posted on August 29, 2022 | No CommentsRegardless of dire conditions, drought is not a fixed conclusion: it is a sign. A sign of imbalance in our relationships to soil and the water cycle. -
Lost Children of Turtle Island – The Impact of Indian Boarding Schools
Posted on August 20, 2022 | 1 CommentIndigenous Activists SunRose IronShell and Manape LaMere speak on Indian Boarding Schools, and how bringing home remains tells the children's stories of generational trauma. -
Life Over Lithium: Protecting the Sacred Site Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass)
Posted on August 15, 2022 | No CommentsGary McKinney, Spokesman for The People of Red Mountain and Lead Scout for the American Indian Movement-Northeast Nevada, reveals to EcoJustice Radio the true cost of lithium and what we might do to protect the Northern Paiute & Western Shoshone sacred site of Peehee Mu’huh to ensure Indigenous peoples and their legacies are not irreparably harmed by the world’s growing hunger for lithium. -
Exposing PFAS “Forever Chemicals” – Global Contamination & One Lawyer’s Battle For Justice
Posted on August 8, 2022 | No CommentsRob Bilott is the leading attorney to bring light to the dangers of PFAS and its many variations. He fought and won a 20+ year battle against Dupont for the poisoning of over 70,000 people in West Virginia and Ohio. His work was even captured in the 2019 feature film, Dark Waters where he was portrayed by Mark Ruffalo. Rob has continued his groundbreaking work and is looking at the potential of a nationwide class action lawsuit as newer versions of PFAS emerge, unregulated and as dangerous as ever. -
The Wild Yards Project: Transforming Lawns into Biodiverse Habitats
Posted on August 1, 2022 | No CommentsHear David Newsom of the Wild Yards Project share about the rewards and challenges of re-creating urban and suburban cultivated spaces into abundant, biodiverse, resilient and equitable spaces with native plants. Wild Yards Project is inspiring globally, transforming built-spaces locally, and providing resources for people worldwide to begin where they are in restoring and healing the lands where they live. -
A Vessel for Empowerment: Overcoming Superstorm & Petrochemical Invasions with Roishetta Ozane
Posted on July 25, 2022 | 1 CommentThe hurricane vulnerable Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom and our EcoJustice Radio guest Roishetta Ozane has a plan to overcome all of them. -
Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
Posted on July 18, 2022 | 3 CommentsWorld-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach has successfully been implemented to restore ecological functions of soils on more than five million acres of farmland around the world. She joined us to share deep insights about how to ensure the continuance of life on this planet by turning to Nature and using biological vs. toxic, chemical approaches to heal and balance soil. -
Soulful to Soilful: Cultivating Community Through Urban Composting
Posted on July 10, 2022 | No CommentsMichael Martinez, Founder and Executive Director of LA Compost illustrates how composting should and can be available to everyone and explores how his organization has grown a successful urban composting model by developing spaces and collaborations with a wide variety of partners including the community, nonprofits, business, and city departments. -
Ethnobotany, Cultural Fire, and Indigenous Stewardship with Payoomkawish Elder Richard Bugbee
Posted on July 4, 2022 | 1 CommentHear Payoomkawish (Juaneño/Luiseño) Elder Richard Bugbee share insights from his decades of studying the way of plants. He emphasizes the importance of reclaiming our ways of seeing, being and understanding the world by reclaiming Native languages and observing the world more closely. Enjoy provocative insights from an elder who has devoted his lifetime to the study of plants and their uses, the reclamation of language, and the practice of material culture. -
The Truth About Compostable Packaging
Posted on June 27, 2022 | 1 CommentAre you confused about compostable packaging, like is it truly compostable or are we being bamboozled by marketing? Are there environmental concerns that haven't been considered? And how can compostable packaging assist in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. What about reusables? Check out the interview with Erin Levine from World Centric. -
Native Habitat: Preserving the Wetlands of the World
Posted on June 20, 2022 | No CommentsWetlands and their protection and restoration benefit the ecosystem by providing wildlife habitat, ensure coastal protection & clean water. -
Solidarity Actions on Climate Justice – Stopping Pipelines and Dirty Banks
Posted on June 13, 2022 | 2 CommentsA Los Angeles action in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en People called for City National Bank to divest from the Coastal GasLink Pipeline now under construction on the West Coast of Canada. -
Climate Change in the Desert with Ecologist James Cornett
Posted on June 5, 2022 | 1 CommentJoshua Tree is an ecological keystone of California deserts. Climate disruption threatens Joshua Tree National Park will no longer have Joshua trees. EcoJustice Radio talks with desert ecologist James Cornett about the future of our deserts in a warming world.
