Detroit must overcome its landscape sprawl and its prime benefactor: the automobile, to revive the economy and become an environmentally sustainable 21st Century city.
Tag: Jack Eidt
Mountain Lions Manage Ecosystems: Not Sport Hunters
California Fish and Game Commish’s mountain lion sport hunting, contrary to the assertions of many “sportsmen” does not provide a service of managing wildlife habitat. It typifies the senseless need for (usually) white men to shoot thriving wild animals for “fun.”
San Diego: Sprawling Under Sunshine and the City of Villages
San Diego, a militarized metropolis with a deeply stratified economy, began as a series of villages amid canyons served by public transit, transformed into freeway-close suburban sprawl, but slowly reimagines the sustainable village model.
Keystone XL Dirty Oil Sands Pipeline: Obama’s Drop Dead Decision? By Jack Eidt
The Obama Administration will continue to face the decision whether a leak-prone dirty tar sands oil pipeline, associated with destruction of ecosystems and indigenous communities as well as global climate destabilization, is in the US national interest.
Honduras: World Heritage Biosphere Trafficked Toward Destruction
Deforestation, the proposed damming of pristine rivers for hydroelectricity, and destruction of indigenous communities threatens the wildest and most biodiverse corner of tropical Central America: The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Alberta Oil Sands & Healing Our Impact (from the Fuel Addiction)
SPECIAL SCREENING & Q/A on Alberta Tar Sands Oil & Healing Our Impact (By Breaking the Fuel Addiction) with Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian First Nations actress and activist, December 6, Los Angeles Area
Drums and Dance of Día de los Muertos
In pre-Hispanic Nahua culture (Aztec and the many other peoples of Central Mexico), life was seen as a dream, and only in dying could a human truly awaken. Death would set free the soul.