Five Thousand Holes In Blackburn, Lancashire
Amidst all the full-scale destruction, we need to note the smaller deteriorations of infrastructure which are going to affect our lives. The […]
Dialogue: Here’s How To Do It
Here is a nice example from Wisconsin of positive dialogue between an environmentally aware activist and a corporate representative. The questions were […]
We Must Respect The Old Ones
The Christian Science Monitor tells us about some of the world’s greatest environmental heroes: The oldest trees in a forest aren’t just […]
We Can Do This: The Climate Message Video Project
Screen fades up from black. We see a musician playing an instrument. Music fills the space for 10-15 seconds. The performer stops […]
Bad News From Australia
Australia is getting hot. Really, really hot. Hot enough that the Australian Open tennis tournament has been suspended; it was hot enough […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: Ghana
I began studying Ghanaian music with David Locke in 1979, and even though I never went as deeply into the music as […]
“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.”
Black Elk said that. “…the Power of the world works in circles.” This power came to a tribe, to a people, circularly: […]
In Trinidad and Tobago, New Songs Are Needed!
The state-owned oil company of Trinidad, Petrotrin, has been tied to at least (at least!) eleven separate oil spills that have closed […]
Friday’s Recycled Instrument: Making A Box Drum
Everybody should know how to make a box. When I do instrument-building workshops for adults, I am invariably amazed and horrified at […]
Sometimes It’s Hard To Do The Right Thing. Sometimes It’s Easy.
As the Poughkeepsie Journal reports, they take environmental awareness seriously in New York’s Hudson River Valley. After all, it was here that […]