Plastics – Destroying Our Pretty Blue Planet
An anonymous ‘they’ are accused of damaging our pretty blue planet, but we know for certain it is not ‘they’. It is ‘Us’. ‘We’. It’s we who are ravaging and…
Earth Day
Reflections on Earth Day
Are you personally or people who you know placing too many demands on our planet to provide relative extravagance and indulgences for us? After all, the world is expected to…
Protect the Arctic Region: Already Threatened Arctic Ecology Can be Devastated Further by Rapid Militarization
The Arctic region is warming at twice the global rate, leading to rapid melting of ice--some have even predicted ice-free summers by year 2034. This has brought unprecedented threats to…
Earth Day Greetings!
As I bicycled to work this cool, breezy spring morning in the Pacific Northwest, I admired the vibrant growth of multitude of plants reaching for the sun, and spring flowers seeking bees and…
Rejecting the Facade: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War and Genocide
As Earth Day approaches, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the planet while disregarding the devastation their actions…
For Sikhs, every day is the Earth Day
Pawan Guru, Paani Pita, Mata Dharat Mahatt (Air is the guide, Water is the father, the earth is a mother)”. That’s the message of Guru Nanak, the founder of one…
Earth Day re-emphasizes the urgent need for resolving the survival crisis before it is too late
This year the Earth Day is being observed at a time when the dangers to our once beautiful and bountiful planet appear to be at their most extreme. This is…
A Song for Our Mother
What songs can we sing for you O Mother, on this Earth Day? Intercontinental missiles fly. You lie wounded by bombs. Wombs emptied into tombs of soldiers weep, decimated…
War
written on the eve of Earth Day, 2022 i spit an iron ball at you i spit a ball a meteor of fire… i spit into your eyes i spit…
Earth Day: Enemies and Opportunities
by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen In a 1970 poster for the first Earth Day and a cartoon the following year, Walt Kelly’s Pogo offered a hard truth about ecological…
Every Day Is An Earth Day: Suggestions for Living in an Ecozoic Future
Here are two lists of changes that can and should be made, restoring this Earth home more fully to a habitable, life-diversified, and evolving planet. Outward behaviors everyone can practice…
A Dark Earth Day
The ‘New Deal’ part of the Green New Deal is mostly good and necessary. But the ‘Green’ part has a big hole at its center: the lack of a direct…
Earth Day 2021
To care, Nurture and Cherish till Death do us part — A day to celebrate the Fecundity Fertility and the Rites of the passage of Time. Make the…
Call Me Vincent, Call Yourself Vincent
"O bailan todos o no baile nadie." -- the Tupamaros The Universe is a poem without foreign words. My loved ones laugh at me when they hear I've been listening to…
Generic Earth Day
"Earth Day has become a very general celebration festooned with music, food and feeling good about being with others who are politically correct, acknowledging the importance of Mother Earth…
Human Footprint Devastating Wildlife – An Article For Earth Day
Animals can be beautiful; they can be sleek, graceful, powerful, or just plain adorable, even cuddly. A field of wild flowers chanced upon can take your breath away. Wordsworth so…
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