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!
Kachina Archive
Hopi Survival and the Supernaturals: Revenge of the Kachinas
Posted on November 26, 2017 | 3 CommentsHere is a retelling of the Hopi story, The Revenge of the Katcinas (Kachinas or Katsinam). To grow crops and survive in their mountainous desert, the Hopis understand the necessity for proper devotion to the supernatural powers, known as the Kachinas, who embody the spirits of living things and also of ancestors who have died and become a part of nature. When the people fall out of favor with the supernaturals, disaster results.Hopi Butterfly Dance: Ceremonial Gratitude
Posted on June 17, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe Butterfly Dance is a Hopi ceremony petitioning for rain, and health for all living things, thanking the beautiful butterfly for pollinating plant life.Hopi Legend Part 3: Wildfire of Purification and Old Spider Woman
Posted on June 9, 2011 | 9 CommentsMytho-Historical Prophecy: Facing certain destruction by a massive wildfire raging down from the high peaks, the Oraibi village leader consults Old Spider Woman on overcoming the state of koyaanisqatsi, or life out of balance, that had befallen the land.Hopi Legend Part 2: The Yaayapontsa Dance of Fire
Posted on May 29, 2011 | 3 CommentsFollowing the dances of the kachinas in the wayward village of Pivanhonkyapi suffering the imbalance of Koyaanisqatsi, the dreaded Yaayapontsa arrive to purify the world with fire.Hopi Legend: Koyaanisqatsi and World Destruction
Posted on May 25, 2011 | 10 CommentsThe Hopi curse of Koyaanisqatsi marks the total disintegration of the life of harmony and balance. The subject of a 1982 tone poem of modern day environmental devastation by Godfrey Reggio, also shown in the mythological destruction of the ancient Hopi city of Pivanhonkyapi.