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Confronting Wildfire: Retrofit Communities, Not Forests

September 17, 2018 by Guest Columnist 3 comments

As California continues with massive wind-driven, high-intensity wildfires that often turn deadly, the governmental and institutional response has been to thin forests and “grind up vegetation” to fight fires. Naomi Pitcairn points to a movement by plant community and wildfire experts led by the Richard Halsey of the Chaparral Institute to focus on protecting vulnerable communities rather than trying to control nature, which now faces extreme heatwaves and droughts from an unpredictable greenhouse-gas-warmed climate.

Climate, EcoJustice Radio

Montecito Mudslides, Climate Chaos Impact Chumash People – EcoJustice Radio

February 9, 2018 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Marcus Lopez Senior, member of the Barbareno Chumash Nation in California, speaks with Jack Eidt from SoCal 350 on climate chaos and the impacts on the Chumash people from fires, mudslides, colonization, land theft, gentrification, and offshore drilling.

Climate, Environmental Issues

Extreme Winds and Wildfires, On Overcoming California Climate Chaos

December 19, 2017 by Jack Eidt 3 comments

Jack Eidt writes on the California wildfires and their dangerous connection with climate change, melting of Arctic sea ice, and the drying out of the US West Coast. We must reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, get cracking on a just transition to an economy based on clean, efficient, renewable energy, and start making our homes and lives more extreme-climate-resilient.

Earth, Mysteries

Dark Omen: Climate Chaos Converges with Solar Eclipse Wisdom

September 13, 2017 by Jack Eidt 3 comments

Since the solar eclipse of 2017, climate and tectonic instability has accelerated across the Earth: Rehearsal for the End Times? Predicted fossil fueled climate disruption and superstorm cataclysm? Sun-Moon alignment that bulged the Earth’s crust, precipitating earthquakes? What really is happening here? We survey scientific, religious, and traditional indigenous belief for answers.

Environmental Issues

Protecting Greater Yosemite Ecosystem from Salvage Logging

July 13, 2014 by Guest Columnist 1 comment

The US Forest Service salvage logging plan ended up damaging the health of the Greater Yosemite Ecosystem far more than 2013’s massive Rim Fire. Chad Hanson from the John Muir Project of the Earth Island Institute explains how wildfires can promote ecological health and survival of many plant and wildlife communities, despite the intense heat and scale of the blazes.

Eco-Cultural-Travel

Yosemite: An Ecosystem Nourished By Wildfire

May 25, 2014 by Jack Eidt 7 comments

Though the Rim Fire of 2013 was the third largest conflagration in California’s history, it improved the ecological health of the forest and the majority of the iconic landscapes of Yosemite National Park remained unscathed. A salvage logging plan approved by the US Forest Service put in danger the regenerating effects of the fire.

Environmental Issues

Cattle Grazing the Desert Will Not Solve Climate Change

March 19, 2013 by The Outpost 5 comments

“Severe grazing is absolutely essential to maintain biodiversity,” argues Allan Savory in a recent TED Talk. Of course, this is the opposite of scientific truth for the sensitive desert ecosystem. Advocating “holistic grazing,” Mr. Savory pieces together false assumptions to produce ineffective but popular recommendations on climate change.

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