An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Native Habitat: Preserving the Wetlands of the World
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Solidarity Actions on Climate Justice – Stopping Pipelines and Dirty Banks
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Climate Change in the Desert with Ecologist James Cornett
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30 Days of Wearing My Trash with Rob Greenfield
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Reforest the Earth: Planting Old Growth Trees in Fight Against Climate Change
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Daily Dose of the Wild
Twittering from the Trees
‘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!
Climate Archive
Feedback Loops: Climate Change’s Most Critical Dynamic
Posted on March 19, 2022 | No Comments“Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops.” is a 5-part documentary on scientific mechanisms at work causing climate chaos that may be irreversibleThe Power of Youth-Led Activism: Inspiring Change and Building Community
Posted on December 19, 2019 | 1 CommentOn this episode of EcoJustice Radio, we discuss the power of youth-led activism and how our guest is helping to inspire change and build community. We welcome 19-year-old Youth Environmental Activist and one of the lead organizers for Youth Climate Strike LA, Kevin Patel.Youth Climate Strike Takes Over Downtown Los Angeles
Posted on October 14, 2019 | 1 CommentThe September 20th Los Angeles Youth Climate Strike was organized by a coalition of groups and led by Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles. EcoJustice Radio's Jessica Aldridge and production team joined the action at Downtown LA's Pershing Square, where anywhere from 10-20,000 people gathered for speeches and music, and then all marched through the streets to City Hall. This caused absolute pandemonium on the crowded city streets, but all happened peacefully and with grace from all involved.Rise for Climate Los Angeles: September 8
Posted on August 22, 2018 | No CommentsOn September 8, the international Rise for Climate Day of Action is bringing people together for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, calling on governments, corporations, and organizations to initiate aggressive action on climate change, protect frontline communities, and create good jobs in the clean energy economy. Join us to Rise Together in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 8, in solidarity with events in San Francisco and around the globe that same day.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.Dark Omen: Climate Chaos Converges with Solar Eclipse Wisdom
Posted on September 13, 2017 | 3 CommentsSince the solar eclipse of 2017, climate and tectonic instability has accelerated across the Earth: Rehearsal for the End Times? Predicted fossil fueled climate disruption and superstorm cataclysm? Sun-Moon alignment that bulged the Earth's crust, precipitating earthquakes? What really is happening here? We survey scientific, religious, and traditional indigenous belief for answers.On Haiti and Hurricane Matthew – Intervention and Self-Determination
Posted on October 9, 2016 | No CommentsHaiti now faces an unmitigated human disaster from the destruction of Hurricane Matthew. With extreme reports of death tolls, Dady Cherry examines the misinformation common in mainstream media reports of the destruction that reinforce the gringo-savior mentality, backed by western governments and their compromised and ineffectual non-governmental organizations like the Red Cross. The failures from the 2010 earthquake loom large.Students Travel Across California to Stop Tar Sands Oil Trains
Posted on February 24, 2016 | 2 CommentsHigh School student Malia Street writes about her classmates from the Port of LA High School who traveled 200 miles to speak out at the hearing and rally against a plan by Phillips 66 to ship volatile and toxic tar sands crude via rail into California.California Sea Lion Suffering Warming Pacific, Disappeared Sardines
Posted on April 21, 2015 | No CommentsSick, starving and dying sea lion pups are washing up on the shores of California in record numbers this year. The culprit? An unusual blob of record warm water parked off the North Pacific Coast for a year and a half, affecting circulation and weather patterns with no relief in sight. Hence, sardine fisheries have collapsed with wildlife heading north.Coffee and Climate Change: Morning Java Won’t Survive
Posted on February 11, 2015 | No CommentsClimate change affects coffee crops throughout the world, with extreme weather and virulent pests causing damage to yields and ruining the industry. Thus, kicking our addiction to oil will benefit coffee farmers as well as consumers.Starhawk: Hope in the Time of Climate Change
Posted on December 3, 2014 | 1 CommentAs the full moon approached and the winter solstice upcoming ~ on Sun Dec 7, 2014 in LA, Starhawk joined a conscious community including SoCal 350 Climate Action Coalition, collectively co-creating a vision of a just transition away from climate- and ecosystem-damaging fossil fuels and industrial agriculture to a sustainable permaculture-oriented new world!Extreme Ice Melt in Arctic Unprecedented
Posted on October 17, 2014 | No CommentsScientists analyzing more than three decades of weather data for the northern Alaskan outpost of Barrow have linked 7C rise to the decline in Arctic sea ice, reports Climate News Network. This has major implications for wildlife, indigenous cultures, and the planet's ecosystem.Hundreds Demonstrate in LA to Support People’s Climate Mobilization
Posted on September 20, 2014 | 3 CommentsHundreds of Southern Californians Demonstrate along Wilshire Boulevard in Solidarity with Historic People’s Climate Mobilization in New York City Demanding Immediate Action on Climate CrisisPeople’s Climate Movement: The End of Business as Usual
Posted on September 4, 2014 | 1 CommentIn light of the People's Climate Mobilization in New York and worldwide, Sabina Virgo writes on the need to build a movement using the examples of fights for civil rights, feminism and peace, based on the principle that corporate-centered business as usual must end, bringing about a just transition to a sustainable economic model that creates jobs and prosperity for all while protecting our fragile ecological balance.Ocean Acidification Threatens Alaskan Crab Fishery
Posted on July 23, 2014 | 5 CommentsOcean acidification, the lesser-known twin of climate change, threatens to scramble marine life on a scale almost too big to fathom. Scientists fear changing ocean chemistry will drive the collapse of Alaska’s iconic crab fishery. Watch the video from PBS NewsHour and the Seattle Times.The Psychological Cost of a Hotter World: More Suicides
Posted on May 2, 2014 | 2 CommentsUsing Phoenix, Arizona, as an example of where global warming has resulted in inhuman heat and extreme weather, Jerry Adler in Smithsonian wonders if human beings will be able to keep their cool? New research suggests not.LA Launches the Great March for Climate Action
Posted on February 10, 2014 | 4 CommentsTaking heed of the growing climate turmoil such as drought in California, unprecedented melting of the Arctic glaciers and the most rain ever recorded in Great Britain, more than 60 organizations will march in Los Angeles on March 1st to launch the coast-to-coast Great March for Climate Action.Political Science vs. Science Science – By Peter Nichols
Posted on January 10, 2014 | No CommentsPeter Nichols: My generation is being condemned to a planet beyond fixing because political science takes precedence over science science. If world governments don’t come together and act in concert to do something to stabilize the climate, and soon, we will make sure they are no longer governments.Philippines: Hope and Healing After Super Typhoon Haiyan
Posted on January 8, 2014 | 1 CommentDr. Herbert Eidt used basic training learned as an Army doctor to help people survive in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan and to deliver hope to communities in the Philippines.Climate Warming Catastrophe, Mass Extinctions Underway
Posted on December 27, 2013 | 4 CommentsDahr Jamail's essay illustrates how scientists are starting to acknowledge that the startling environmental changes happening worldwide, including massive ice melts, extreme weather such as super typhoons, wildfire, heat waves, and droughts, as well as the growing acidification of ocean waters, could result in massive species extinctions, including us.Climate Disruption: Arctic Death Spiral Underway
Posted on November 18, 2013 | 1 CommentIce is melting in the Arctic at one of the fastest rates in human history. Researchers and climate scientists monitoring ice melt in the Arctic have started using the ominous term “death spiral” to describe what’s happening at the top of the world.The Climate Movement: Direct Action Against Extreme Fossil Fuels
Posted on September 5, 2013 | 1 CommentDavid Osborn from Rising Tide asserts all new fossil fuel extraction must immediately stop if we want any chance of a habitable climate and a livable future. The climate movement needs more actions like Swamp Line 9 in Ontario, which shut down a pumping station to protest the Enbridge Line 9 Tar Sands Pipeline Reversal.