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
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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!
Japan Archive
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Public Banking and a Sustainable Economy – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on July 10, 2019 | No CommentsEllen Brown writes that public banking is the only way to finance the transition to a green economy. EcoJustice Radio's Mark Morris speaks with Madeline Merritt, Core Organizer for Public Bank LA and Member of California Public Banking Alliance. -
The Ambiguous Colors of Haruki Murakami
Posted on March 14, 2016 | No CommentsA documentary on Japanese literary postmodernist Haruki Murakami, as well as a folktale from his novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage." As the Guardian puts it: "Full of ambiguity and sex – all Murakami's signature flourishes are here." -
Landscape Urbanism: Green Roofs, Community Farms in Japan
Posted on March 29, 2014 | 4 CommentsGardens and farms, green roofs and landscaped buildings are becoming more a part of the urban landscape in Japan. We look at projects in Osaka, and a Tokyo rail company has placed garden allotments on train station rooftops, greening the city while allowing commuters to connect to the land and grow their own vegetables. -
Freezing Fukushima: The Solution
Posted on September 6, 2013 | No Comments"Utilizing new technologies, we will freeze the 100-square miles surrounding the devastated plant, surgically remove it, towing it by barge to the Arctic where it will remain frozen, rendering it harmless. Comments regarding global warming will be addressed in a private conference at a later date." -
Clean Energy Possibilities, Amory Lovins Interviewed By Arnie Gunderson
Posted on September 5, 2013 | No CommentsArnie Gunderson of Fairewinds interviews Amory Lovins, preeminent environmental thinker and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute. With forty years of energy policy experience, Amory Lovins has dedicated himself to the idea that our energy future does not have to look like our energy past. Listen in as Arnie and Amory discuss transitioning towards a clean energy economy in the US and around the world. -
Japan: “Office Farming” Greens Tokyo’s Urban Jungle
Posted on August 29, 2013 | 7 CommentsSophie Feng writes on one answer to disaster-prone Tokyo's interest in food health and security. Corporate Ecology is mixed with the move toward Agricultural Urbanism, greening the sterile downtown office world for workers and visitors. -
Fukushima Meltdown: Flush the Radiated Mess into the Pacific
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 4 CommentsAlmost two and a half years after the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the head of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) raised concern on August 5 about the continued flow of radioactive water from the plant going into the Pacific Ocean, telling Reuters, "Right now we have a state of emergency." Hmm, yes, sounds about right. -
Dr. Helen Caldicott: Human Scientific Hubris Caused Fukushima Nuclear Meltdowns
Posted on July 6, 2012 | No CommentsIn March, 2012, physician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott spoke in Los Angeles on energy, environmental health, and the effects of the Fukushima meltdowns on the Japanese people. Meanwhile, a parliamentary panel confirms insititutional negligence and human scientific hubris caused the disaster. -
China Syndrome Redux or Godzilla Lives? By Jerry Collamer
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 1 CommentUpdate from Fukushima: cooling water pours in, instantly drains out highly radiated, through unknown openings, workers can't locate, due to extreme radioactivity, as more quakes persist. Could things get worse? Seems so. -
Impending Nuclear Storm: News Beyond Fukushima – 6 April 2011
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThreats: Mounting stresses on the containment structures filled with radioactive cooling water made vulnerable to rupture; explosions from the release of hydrogen and oxygen from seawater, and fuel rods continuing to melt. -
Human Hubris Fuels Nuclear Catastrophe
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 3 CommentsFour of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth. Fire burns out of control at Reactor No. 4's pool of spent nuclear fuel, with six spent fuel pools at risk, all sites too hot to deal with. -
Disaster Roulette: Earthquakes and Nukes at San Onofre By Jack Eidt and Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 5 CommentsDisaster can be avoided, if you just don't go there. Yet our human nature is to go, to build, to deny the omnipotent laws of nature, then suffer that all too familiar consequence. -
Japanese Nuclear Disaster Worsens
Posted on March 14, 2011 | 1 CommentJapanese officials have admitted that nuclear rods inside three of the Fukushima reactors are melting. -
Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Disaster Unfolds
Posted on March 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsJapan's earthquake and tsunami have triggered meltdowns at several nuclear reactors, increased radiation levels, evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people in the face of radiation exposures already being reported.
