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!
extinctions Archive
Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things
Posted on February 9, 2019 | 9 CommentsWe have forgotten the flocks of passenger pigeons that blotted out the sun, the herds of bison that shook the ground, and the untamed places in which we destroyed them. This is ecological amnesia. This capacity to forget, this fluidity of memory, has dire implications in a world dense with people, all desperate to satisfy their immediate material needs. Yet, the way forward is land and water protection and regeneration, permaculture, and community reconnection with the wild.Wolves Howl in 21 Different Tongues, So to Speak
Posted on March 24, 2017 | 1 CommentAs US Republicans take aim at wolves in Alaska, research into their vocalizations found multiple identifiable "dialects" that establish differences between species.Geo-Fauvism and Anthropocene: Altered Planet, Wild Literature
Posted on June 4, 2016 | 3 CommentsWelcome to the Anthropocene age, where humans have transmogrified the planet, its oceans and atmosphere, caused mass extinctions and wholesale contamination that will remain for millennia. Beyond the politicians and scientists, the way forward remains in the hands of writers, artists, and designers taking inspiration from wild earth in a movement called Geo-Fauvism.Mass Species Extinction and Wilding the Wilderness
Posted on November 14, 2015 | 5 CommentsChristopher Ketcham writes on our continuing anthropogenic (human-caused) extinction, and the ineffectual and often misguided attempts at appeasement for the destroyers of wilderness and consumers of the Earth's bounty. E.O. Wilson's push for parks and wilderness connected by corridors: half for us, half for them, might just be the answer.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.Santa Ana Mountains: Vestige of Wild Coastal Southern California
Posted on May 5, 2012 | No CommentsFollowing the footsteps of Willis E. Pequegnat, a biologist from the 1930s who explored the wild Santa Ana Mountains in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties, this video field journal logs the wonders and threats to this thriving resource.