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!
orchestral jazz Archive
Big Noise from Big Band Drummer Gene Krupa
Posted on April 10, 2018 | 1 CommentGene Krupa (1909 – 1973) pioneered orchestral jazz and Big Band from the flamboyant drum side, pounding tom-toms, high hats, and cymbals through the 30s, 40s, and 50s, as one of the most remarkable percussionists out there.Gershwin’s Reluctant Kaleidoscope of America in ‘Rhapsody in Blue’
Posted on January 1, 2016 | 4 CommentsWith reluctance, George Gershwin, commissioned by the self-styled King of Jazz in 1920s New York, composed his "musical kaleidoscope of America," Rhapsody in Blue. Stephen Vessels curates the discussion.Creators of the Cool: Miles Davis and Gil Evans
Posted on June 8, 2012 | 1 CommentThe collaboration of trumpeter Miles Davis with Gil Evans' orchestral arrangement and composition elevated "the new thing," freeing modern jazz from big-band swing with lyrical-literary French horns and tuba and Davis taking up the flugelhorn.