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“Water” Letter to the editor
I mentioned village economics last week writing that our first priority should be food and water. One can live more than a month without food but will die in four days without water so let’s think about water. Water is what allowed life to happen on this planet if you think about it, […]
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Climate Change is a bigger issue than cow burps
I had to laugh when I read “Climate Change is a bigger issue than cow burps,” but thought it was a little misleading to speak of it in terms of grass fed cattle. This is because 80% of the beef consumed in the US comes from factory feed lots where cows are crowded […]
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The Forest Feeds Us
Back on January 13 th, 2009, my wife and partner Katey had come up with an idea for the theme of an art program, The Forest that Feeds Us. Since I often write topical songs she asked me to write one for the forest. So that evening I did and here it is, […]
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The Coal Disaster
It’s being called a huge environmental disaster but, unlike Katrina, the TVA coal ash pond dam collapse disaster was not caused by the environment. Rather, this disaster was caused by the continued use of a dirty, poisonous fuel used in an outdated and inefficient mode of energy production, coal. Earthen dams holding the toxic […]
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