Jack Eidt is an urban planner and environmental advocate.

In 2004 he co-founded Wild Heritage Planners, an organization dedicated to sustainable environmental planning advocacy, proposing solutions to fight urban sprawl and save precious wild habitat.

He functions as Editor-in-Chief of WilderUtopia.com, an online news source dedicated to earth coexistence.

He also serves as a Board Member to the Biodiesel Cooperative of Los Angeles and OC Friends of Harbors, Beaches and Parks, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and management of wilderness and parkland in Southern California.

Jack earned a Master’s Degree from UCLA in Urban and Regional Development and a Bachelor’s from the University of California at Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies with a minor in Creative Writing.

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