I am the Soil, and I am alive.

Another brilliant film by Conservation International. Edward Norton is the soil. Turning to dust.

The Ocean is Speaking

A punch to the gut from the Ocean, the Source. Courtesy of Conservation International.

The Redwood Is Speaking, and Joni Mitchell warned us.

What would a redwood's perspective be, given its life span?

Joni Mitchell warned us 45 years ago about what we were doing.

Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot SPOT
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But LEAVE me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got ‘til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Come and took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

I said
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Mother Nature is Speaking

"One way or the other, your actions will determine your fate. Not mine. I am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to evolve. Are you?"

Marching Against Monsanto- "Hummingbird"- The Both

I got a message from the Hummingbird....

Hummingbird
Ted Leo and Aimee Mann

In the woods we lit a fire
And we watched a wary deer walk by
The trees were restless,
moving underbrush
And clouds were banking in the sky

But I got a message from the hummingbird
He gave me a warning in disguise
He told me they're marching on Monsanto
But the same monolithic structures rise

In the garden we sat writing
To the rush of highway noise beside
Lonesome bees ignored the sirens
While remembering their dancing guide

But I got a message from the hummingbird
He gave me a warning in disguise
He told me they're marching on the Capitol
With wings at their back
and fear in their eyes

There's sage and glove and distant waters
But there's no map home
for Memory's daughters
Do the darting thoughts of gods have
dreams like ours?

On the tarmac rows of pirouetting
Jets wait gravely in their lanes
While from our windows, getting higher
We see hybrids wandering the plains

And I got a message from the hummingbird
He gave me a warning in disguise
He told me they're barking at their shadows
While the same monolithic structures rise

I got a message from the hummingbird

California Drought, 2014-2015

California, a state built on stolen water, as detailed in the book Cadillac Desert, has about one year of water left. Here is what Lake McClure, which is a reservoir in California, looks like right now.

One round heart, One round home- "Apocalypse Lullaby" by the Wailin' Jennys

Hurricanes will come...

Apocalypse Lullaby
Annabelle Chvostek

Hurricanes will come
Earthquakes break the walls
Oceans rise
Empires fall

Enter world, light unshown
Follow heart, follow home
Here we are, light unshown
One round heart, one round home

Spin the speed of light
Tetrahedron blue
One last paradise
You can make for you

Enter world, light unshown
Follow heart, follow home
Here we are, light unshown
One round heart, one round home

Faster than a ship
Further than bomb
See the glowing grid
Send love throughout the throng

Enter world, light unshown
Follow heart, follow home
Here we are, light unshown
One round heart, one round home

Global Warming Effects Map

 From the National Geographic:

And here is a NASA video:

If All of Earth's Ice Melted:

Here is a link to an interactive map about global warming: Global Warming Map

Life Before the Spill- "The Gulf of Mexico" by Steve Earle

Stepping out on the drilling floor to earn a roughneck's pay....

The Gulf Of Mexico
Steve Earle

Come and gather 'round me people
And a tale to you I'll tell
Of my father and his father
In the days before the spill
With an endless sky above 'em
And a restless sea below
And every blessin' flowing from the Gulf of Mexico

From my Granddad with the shrimp boats
From the time that he was grown
And he scrimped and saved and bought himself
A trawler of his own
He was rough and he was ready
And he drank when he was home
And he made his family's living on the Gulf of Mexico

We were rolling
We were rolling
Past the deep blue water
He was rolling

Well my Daddy drove a crew boat
Hauling workers to the rigs
He was sick of mending nets
And couldn't stand the smell of fish
He drew a steady paycheck
20 years at Texico
When he died they spread his ashes
On the Gulf of Mexico

We were rolling
We were rolling
Past the deep green water
He was rolling

As for me, I think of nothing
Any grander than the day
That I stepped out on the drillin' floor
To earn a roughneck's pay

Then one night I swear I saw the devil
Crawlin' from the hole
And he spilled the guts of hell out in the Gulf of Mexico

We were rolling
We were rolling
'Cross the blood red water
We were rolling

Timelapse: Deforestation

Using NASA satellite images of the Amazon Rainforest