An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Coming in Fall 2022 – The Fifth Fedora Anthology
Posted on May 15, 2022 | No Comments - Detroit Hives: Honey Bee Farms as Urban Revitalization
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Posted on May 1, 2022 | No Comments - Indigenous Peoples of Mexico Unite Against Corporate Mega-Projects
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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!
renewable energy Archive
Path to 100% Renewable Energy: The Los Angeles Model
Posted on May 14, 2021 | 2 CommentsLos Angeles offers a blueprint for 100% clean, renewable energy, but can it ensure technical and climate efforts elevate community demands? EcoJustice Radio talks with two advocates inside and out of city government at how Los Angeles is moving toward 100 percent renewable.An Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’
Posted on May 14, 2020 | No CommentsThe Michael Moore-produced, Jeff Gibbs video, Planet of the Humans, uses the capitalism onslaught that has caused disaster across the planet as an Earth Day opportunity to lob spitballs at environmental movements and prominent advocates. While it can't even manage any more cogent solutions than vague assertions about curbing population and over-consumption, it also fails to see the monster who stands before it: the system, which needs to be overcome, immediately.Call to Action California: How to Solve the Climate Crisis
Posted on April 21, 2014 | 5 CommentsOn March 1st, almost 1,000 people, supported by over 100 community organizations, marched through the streets of LA Harbor to launch the coast-to-coast Great March for Climate Action. To demonstrate the political will for a healthy planet, SoCal Climate Action Coalition 350 prioritized six urgent climate-change-focused requests of local, state and global level elected legislative decision makers.Stanford Scientist Plans US Transformation to Clean Energy
Posted on February 23, 2014 | 2 CommentsStanford Professor Mark Jacobson and his colleagues recently developed detailed plans to transform the energy infrastructure of New York, California and Washington states from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable resources by 2050.Communal Utopia: The Farm in Rural Tennessee
Posted on October 9, 2013 | 16 CommentsOnce the largest hippie commune in the US, the Farm persists as an intentional community in rural Tennessee, based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. It now advocates permaculture, sustainable and renewable energy, a vegetarian diet, and midwifery.Sustainable Cellulosic Ethanol: Expensive Process, Political Challenges
Posted on October 8, 2013 | No CommentsImagine a future in which airliners run on cornstalks and Navy ships ply the oceans on tanks of switchgrass. That day may be in sight but challenges remain to scale up production, reduce costs and political opposition, and ensure a sustainably produced feedstock.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.Yellow Grease Biodiesel: A Clean, Renewable Fuel Alternative
Posted on July 29, 2013 | 1 CommentBiodiesel, a cleaner renewable alternative to fossil diesel, can be made from any vegetable oil, but best using waste cooking oil. It's use is growing across the US in 5 to 20 percent blends.Solazyme: The Dream of Clean, Renewable, Algae-Derived Fuel
Posted on June 28, 2013 | 1 CommentSolazyme is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms algae into high-value oils, and hopes one day to produce enough to rival gasoline and diesel. Their road to the market has been circuitous but instructive as a workable business model for renewable energy.Obama Proposes Measured Action on Climate Change
Posted on June 25, 2013 | 4 CommentsPresident Obama unveiled his Climate Action Plan that proposes to cut carbon pollution from coal burning power plants, coupled with supporting energy efficiency and clean, renewable sources of energy, but cannot seem to kick the addiction to some fossil fuels, especially fracked natural gas. He also promises to ramp up climate change adaptation and to lead international efforts to address global warming.Morey Wolfson: Addressing Climate Change in a World of Denialism
Posted on January 31, 2013 | 1 CommentTaking action on the proven science of climate change requires overcoming obfuscation from the fossil fuel polluters lobby in order to implement a policy of increased efficiency and conservation, coupled with a clean, renewable energy plan. A CO2 fee and dividend system could help level the relative cost of renewables, creating the political will to kick the fossil fuel habit.Robert Haw: Taking Steps Against Climate Change
Posted on November 24, 2012 | 2 CommentsIt’s like a Gary Larson cartoon. Fires, floods, and droughts keep coming and we laugh them off, though the joke might be on us. We must all make positive personal and political contributions to solving the climate crisis before it's too late.Panama Hydroelectric “Clean Energy”: Village of the Dammed
Posted on April 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsHuge new hydroelectric dam projects now underway call for damming pristine rivers and flooding virgin rainforest, home of the Ngäbe People. The Panamanian government deems it vital for economic growth, with multinational corporations cashing in. Even the UN has awarded carbon credits predicated on "sustainably" produced energy.Tar Sands – Keystone XL Pipeline Activist Resources
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsAs the Tar Sands Oil Mining and the associated Keystone XL and Northern Gateway Pipelines push forward, education and collaboration are necessary to stop these destructive projects and demand a sustainable and clean energy policy today.Obama For America: LA Demands a Sustainable Energy Policy
Posted on December 5, 2011 | 1 CommentPresident Obama: We citizens for Tar Sands Action in Los Angeles laud your decision to send the Keystone XL Pipeline back to the State Department for re-review. Yet, ensuring climate stability, protecting land and water resources, and launching an alternative clean energy economy will take much more work.Amory Lovins: Efficiency and Renewable Energy will Reinvent Fire
Posted on November 23, 2011 | 5 CommentsReinventing Fire maps pathways for running a 158%-bigger U.S. economy in 2050 but needing no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and no new inventions.Climate 2030: National Blueprint for Clean Energy Economy
Posted on November 21, 2011 | 4 CommentsReducing oil dependence. Strengthening energy security. Creating jobs. Tackling global warming. Addressing air pollution. Improving our health. The Union of Concerned Scientists has outlined a US national blueprint for a clean energy economy.End Nuclear Power: Renewables and Conservation Now
Posted on March 30, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat about energy conservation, as well as cogeneration, wind power and cheaper, more–efficient forms of renewable energy? Physicist Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute argues that shifting investment of tens of billions of dollars from nuclear into renewable energy would reduce far more carbon per dollar.World Bank-Funded Biofuel Corporation Massacres Six Honduran Campesinos – By Annie Bird
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 6 CommentsSecurity from World Bank-funded biofuel corporation Dinant massacred legally land-titled Honduran campesinos, casting a shadow on international climate change initiatives.
