"Standing Rock is Everywhere: Los Angeles Unites Around Dakota Access" by Jack Eidt. WilderUtopia, December 14, 2016.
"The December NoDAPL March in Los Angeles, attended by thousands and organized by Indigenous and political groups, lays out The Way Forward on overcoming the incoming installed regime of the Orange One and his Corporate Hack Cabinet"  read more... 

"CA Coastal Commission Endangered by Lobbyist Influence Peddling" by Jack Eidt. Voice of OC, August 7, 2016.
"The California Coastal Commission has lost the trust of the public because of multiple Coastal-Act-violating decisions that turned out to be influenced by off-the-record lobbyist meetings."  read more... 

"Jerry Brown and Regulatory Capture at the CA Coastal Commission" by Jack Eidt. Voice of OC, May 4, 2016.
"Jerry Brown, once known as Governor Moonbeam who signed into law the California Coastal Commission, now can be seen as the man behind handing it over to developers. Governor Brown must fire his four at-will commissioners with significant lapses of judgement and ethics, as well as his powerful backroom dealer from the Resources Agency."  read more... 

"Power, Influence, and Obfuscation: A Plan to Game the California Coastal Act" by Jack Eidt. Voice of OC, March 11, 2016.
"Why did Coastal Commissioners dump popular Executive Director Charles Lester in a closed session at their February meeting in Morro Bay? It is part of a plan by well connected lobbyists and lawyers pushing environmentally damaging projects for their wealthy clients."  read more... 

"L.A. River Must Transform as Watershed, Transportation Corridor" by Jack Eidt. WilderUtopia, September 29, 2015.
"Takeaways from a recent Green Festival Expo discussion on the Los Angeles River Revitalization include that the job of planning for water resiliency belongs to all of us, not Frank Gehry regardless of his recent charge, and we must also consider how public access, parkland, ecosystem restoration, cargo and passenger rail, bicycle greenways, and anti-gentrification environmental justice will fit into the mix. Collaboration is the key."  read more... 

"Laguna Beach: The Ranch Hotel Renovation Violates Coastal Rules" by Jack Eidt. WilderUtopia, January 8, 2015.
"The California Coastal Commission failed to enforce the Coastal Act and did not require a Laguna hotel renovation to address destruction of affordable rooms and environmental habitat. The Commission did require them to pay $250,000 toward finishing the long-awaited Trail to the Sea, but this is by no means guarantees its completion."  read more... 

"Sprawl vs. Open Space: "Rio Santiago" Again Threatens Orange" by Jack Eidt. Voice of OC, May 13, 2014.
"Jack Eidt writes on the dangers of proposing mixed use development far from urban amenities and alternative transportation. The real estate industry in Orange County, California and beyond, has consistently violated engineering and planning wisdom by building in floodplains, paving over precious open space land and losing opportunities to preserve wildlife habitat and recreation opportunities amid the suburban sprawl at the edge of the wilderness."  read more... 

"Detroit Future: Landscape Urbanism, Antidote to Industrial Blight" by Jack Eidt. WilderUtopia, August 17, 2013.
"For the last 40 years, Detroiters have fled the once-majestic downtown core for the bucolic image of sprawling suburbia. Now an urban revival in the name of “Detroit Future City,” complete with forests, parks, farms and waterways, is planned to overcome the financial mismanagement and industrial blight that have plagued the city for far too long."  read more... 

"Oily Offshore Drilling Deal Between PXP Oil Company and Environmental Defense Center About Profit, Not Compromise" by Jack Eidt. Orange County Register, April 18, 2010.
"The proposal to allow the first offshore drilling lease in 41 years in the State Coastal Tidelands Sanctuary at Tranquillon Ridge, Santa Barbara County, is a bad deal for the State of California, with major risks to coastal economies and ecosystems without assurance of the purported benefits; as well, it most certainly will lead to increased drilling at a beachfront near you."  read more... 

"Time for More Sustainable Transportation Options" Letter to Supervisor Patricia Bates regarding the California Coastal Commission rejection of the Coastal Consistency Permit for the Foothill South Toll Road Extension, February 9, 2008.
"Following is our alternative transportation vision and a response to TCA's assertions regarding environmental and park consequences of building a six-lane road through our last undeveloped foothills of the San Mateo Watershed. "   read more...

"Questions and Answers for Jack Eidt with UC Santa Cruz student Sharon Sehee Lee."
"For my Environmental issue paper I chose to write about the issue the extension of the 241 toll road has on the environment and on society. I chose to write about this issue because it is a problem that affects my hometown and the places I love to surf. "   read more...

"Inconvenient facts," by Jack Eidt. Orange County Register, April 29, 2007.
"Facts seem an inconvenient detail that your columnist Mark Landsbaum left out of his column regarding 'point-by-point consideration of the science behind global warming.'"   read more...

"Who Oversees Our Communal Backyard?," by Jack Eidt. Capistrano Dispatch, March, 2007.
"Land development interests, starvation management practices, and Board of Supervisors' negligence now threaten what remains of Orange County's 39,000 acre park system - including seven miles of beach and harbor facilities, historic sites, urban regional parks, environmentally sensitive open spaces, and 230 miles of riding and hiking trails."   read more...

"California's Economic Engine - Freeways," by Jack Eidt. Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2007.
"Toll roads will never carry their fair share of traffic because freeways surround them. Orange County's SR 73 tollway remains empty and bankrupt while cars pile onto the San Diego and Santa Ana Freeways. Meanwhile, non-compete clauses limit government expansion of roads and exacerbate congestion."   read more...

"The Place Where Urban Sprawl Ends" Opinion-Editorial, November 3, 2005.
"Billed as the place where urban sprawl ends, the 93,000-acre Irvine Ranch became the 20th Century state of the art in privately developed master planning. To be sure, the original vision has proven an enormous success for the Irvine Company, providing homes for over 200,000 people, while preserving over half of the original land as permanent open space, wilderness and parkland."   read more...

"Era of the big back yard is over," by Jack Eidt. Orange County Register, July 3, 2005.
"Columnist Steven Greenhut's argument ['Picture imperfect,' Commentary, June 26] in favor of Orange County's 'suburban sprawl' fails to grasp the concept that the era of the big back yard on a leafy cul-de-sac has long ended. O.C., despite the popular conception to the contrary, has become urban - with population density second only to San Francisco."   read more...

"Rancho Mission Viejo: Prototype for the New Suburbanism," by Jack Eidt. Capistrano Valley News, April 28, 2005.
"Orange County residents understand our once suburban American dream has long since turned urban. Instead of becoming like downtown LA or Manhattan, the future of development for OC should be more human-scaled, more livable - let us call it the New Suburbanism."   read more...