An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Life Over Lithium: Protecting the Sacred Site Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass)
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Exposing PFAS “Forever Chemicals” – Global Contamination & One Lawyer’s Battle For Justice
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The Wild Yards Project: Transforming Lawns into Biodiverse Habitats
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A Vessel for Empowerment: Overcoming Superstorm & Petrochemical Invasions with Roishetta Ozane
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Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
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‘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!
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Passive-Solar Greenhouse-Wrapped Nature House in Sweden
Posted on January 26, 2020 | 4 CommentsIn 1974, architect Bengt Warne designed the prototype for a greenhouse home to deal with the cold winters in Sweden. Rather than converting an existing structure and moving inside it, he built a normal house -- and then encasing it in glass -- a Nature House (or "Naturhus" ). Inspired by these designs, a family has created a home near Stockholm integrated with the elements of earth, water, air, and fire. The electricity bills have been cut in half, heated by an eco-friendly wood-burning oven and a hot water masonry heater. The greenhouse also shelters Mediterranean-style gardens that couldn't survive the Swedish seasons -- figs, kiwi, peaches, wine grapes, etc.Small Architecture: On Glass Houses Built Over Stone
Posted on January 29, 2014 | 2 CommentsIn 2012, Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz quit their jobs for a time to build a West Virginia mountain hideaway cabin, a tiny summer house made with recycled windows. This is the result.