An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Coming in Fall 2022 – The Fifth Fedora Anthology
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Detroit Hives: Honey Bee Farms as Urban Revitalization
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Indigenous Regeneration: Remembering the Past to Inspire the Future
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Indigenous Peoples of Mexico Unite Against Corporate Mega-Projects
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The Right to Repair Your Devices & the Corporate Stranglehold
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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!
water sustainability Archive
Ocean Desalination vs Conservation and Human Rights
Posted on August 13, 2020 | 1 CommentEcoJustice Radio guests Andrea Leon Grossmann from AZUL and Conner Everts from Southern California Watershed Alliance discuss the proposal by Poseidon Water Company to build a $1 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach, California. When the price tag is more than 2x the cost of our current water system, is desal necessary? Can existing and future conservation opportunities provide the solutions necessary to ensure local water resilience in California and elsewhere?Passive-Solar Greenhouse-Wrapped Nature House in Sweden
Posted on January 26, 2020 | 3 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.Shaping our Water Future: Through Water Quality, Equity & Nature Based Solutions
Posted on September 13, 2019 | 2 CommentsLos Angeles currently imports a whopping 70% of their water. And getting it to LA is the largest use of electricity in the state of CA. When water is not captured and utilized within the system, it traverses through the city and out to the ocean. In order to shape a strong water future, we must manage the flow in way that ensures high quality, social equity, and solutions based in nature.