California — Rain or No Rain?
Last year. This year. A pair of NASA images, taken a year apart, show the profound impacts of California’s current drought, which […]
Why We Do This
Consider a finely sharpened blade, slicing through a piece of wood in a cabinet-maker’s workshop. The chisel’s razor tip is parting the […]
Singing For The Planet: Dominique Eade Performs “Buttermilk Sky”
Here’s a nice performance of Hoagy Carmichael’s song, “Buttermilk Sky” by the brilliant Dominique Eade, accompanied by Will Slater (bass) and Will […]
Mouths > Meals
Punjabi folk drumming Farmers are getting whacked by climate change everywhere. For example, in Northern India and Pakistan, we’re looking at a […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: Peru
Climate change has been hammering farmers in Peru’s Andean plateaus. For these people, some of the world’s poorest, it’s not an abstract […]
A Victory For The Arctic
Good news is rare. Here you go: In a “victory for the Arctic,” a federal appeals court Wednesday ruled in favor of […]
On Measuring The Wrong Things The Wrong Way
First, watch this. Bobby Kennedy on “Gross Domestic Product” “Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and […]
Friday’s Recycled Instrument: Making Your Own Banjo
To make a banjo, you’ll need a piece of hardwood for the neck, and some scraps of plywood or any boards for […]
Do You Like To Eat?
It really doesn’t matter whether you get your food from plants, livestock, birds, fish, shellfish, or crustaceans. Unless you’re already mentally prepared […]
God Bless The Grass
Pete Seeger’s album of this name was released in 1966, and marks a beginning point for the intersection of environmentalism and music. […]