WilderUtopia

06/26/2025

High in the Atacama sky, Yakana the cosmic llama watches over ancient lagoons where 400 million year old microorganisms thrive in the driest desert on Earth. Meanwhile a lithium rush is on, with precious water diverted to evaporation ponds.

Can our deserts survive our thirst for lithium?

Read all about it in High & Dry's https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbound/green-extractivism-can-our-deserts-survive-our-thirst-for-lithium

Photos: Ospix, words: WilderUtopia

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04/03/2025

Great conversations at Bioneers last week!

02/12/2025

We pay tribute to the late Mike Davis to explore the ongoing ecological crises facing Southern California and the socio-political dynamics that shape our responses to disaster. This is an intellectual tour de force as Davis goes deep in this recording from 1995 at the architectural school SCI-Arc, where he taught at the time. He outlines the history of damage caused by natural disasters in Southern California. Popular culture seems fascinated with the destruction of Los Angeles, and most recent events have breathed life into that narrative.
LISTEN: https://wilderutopia.com/ecojustice-radio/mike-davis-on-southern-californias-landscape-of-disaster/

08/19/2024

My first installment on my work in Chile with Osceola Refetoff featured in LA Progressive: We embark on the first part of a series by Jack Eidt to spotlight the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, and its rich yet troubled history with mining.

We embark on the first part of a series by Jack Eidt to spotlight the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, and its rich yet troubled history with mining.

08/09/2024

EcoJustice Radio airs parts of a Emmy-nominated documentary “First People Kumeyaay” from Explore San Diego, originally on KPBS in 2014. It features multiple Kumeyaay Nation folks as well as several academic scientists. We also will hear the story from the Kumeyaay tradition, ‘Coyote and The Rabbit’ as told by Stan Rodriguez.

EcoJustice Radio airs parts of a Emmy-nominated documentary "First People Kumeyaay" from Explore San Diego, originally on KPBS in 2014. It features multiple Kumeyaay Nation folks as well as several academic scientists. We also will hear the story from the Kumeyaay tradition, ‘Coyote and The Rabbit...

08/02/2024

“Every offense is avenged on Earth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image Laura Makabresku

06/13/2024

Painted 50 years before the surrealists, this image by Victor Hugo - author of Les Miserables - was made in ink, soot, coffee grinds and blood.
A window in the sky, at the top of rock steps, freestanding in the sea. The use of light and dark and dream. Via Ewan Morrison

05/20/2024

Went to visit an impressive sacred site in Navajo-Zuni territory of New Mexico yesterday. El Morro National Monument is located on the ancient east–west Zuni-Acoma Trail in the western NM. It preserves the remains of a large prehistoric pueblo perched on a great sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base. The local Zuni people call it A’ts’ina (“Place of writings on the rock”), where both Indigenous and Spaniard-Gringo have left personal inscriptions that survive today.