January 26, 2014January 25, 2014General 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 […]
January 26, 2014January 27, 2014General 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 […]
January 25, 2014January 23, 2014Delivering the Message 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 […]
January 25, 2014January 23, 2014Delivering the Message 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 […]
January 25, 2014January 24, 2014General 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 […]
January 24, 2014January 23, 2014General 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 […]
January 24, 2014January 23, 2014General 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 […]
January 24, 2014January 23, 2014Recycling 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 […]
January 23, 2014January 22, 2014General 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 […]
January 23, 2014January 22, 2014General 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. […]