Raising Environmental Awareness Among the Very Young: A Review of Toby
Last night I presented my world music program on WRPI featuring the music of the 16 countries that made the second round of the 2014 World Cup (along with a few sad songs from countries that didn’t)....
View ArticleBiggest national security threat?
Our news is full of the crises in Iraq, Syria and across Africa. Last month the Military Advisory Board, a group of senior retired generals and admirals, issued a call to action focusing on the larger...
View ArticleYoung People Standing Up for the Environment: A Bird on Water Street
Last week, more than 300,000 people marched in New York City, joining groups around the world, to protest the continued use of fossil fuels that have been linked to higher carbon dioxide levels, higher...
View ArticleClimate Crisis, Ebola, Iraq & Syria: What is Our Priority?
As global climate disruption, the exponentially escalating Ebola crisis and the complex Iraq/Syria conflict fill the news, I am overwhelmed by the sense that the US is tragically choosing the wrong...
View ArticleArmed Drones for the world! What a brilliant idea.
Some 2015 observations made about the glaring signs of the focus on military might and on defense corporate profits. First President Obama dumped the sequester (but only for the military/Pentagon side...
View ArticleEarth Day in Washington D.C. and Albany NY, with local photos. The Pentagon,...
On Wednesday, April 22nd at West Capitol Park in Albany Frack Free Nation and several other local environmental groups held an all day event. There was also an accompanying bike ride that began in...
View ArticleThe Choice: Negotiate or Fight
I’ve been thinking about how the rest of the world must view in some amazement plans by Republicans and their allies to spend $20 million in the next 2 months in an effort to torpedo the negotiations...
View ArticleWhat Climate Change Means for Young People: Water Runs Through This Book and...
Last weekend saw a historic agreement among representatives of 195 nations that will commit each of them to lowering emissions of greenhouse gases. Although many believe the agreement didn’t go far...
View ArticleWhy Welcome Refugees?
Each night we see TV images of families risking everything to flee for their lives from the carnage-filled war zones of Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan. The danger of their journeys, their...
View ArticleEarth Day & Tax Day: How Related?
Next week we celebrate Earth Day on April 22 and, in the Capital District, at the exciting Earth Day Expo in Washington Park on Sunday, April 17. This year’s weather havoc has driven home that the...
View ArticleAgain and Again, Upside Down and Backwards, Too
I have written before on the subject of “political correctness”, yet I turn to the subject again because I keep bumping into its vague but purported threatening presence a lot these days in the...
View ArticleClimate-caused Conflict & Our National Budget: Out of Sync
The latest US National Security Strategy cites climate change as “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows and conflicts over...
View ArticleCan President Obama continue to act on DAPL? Are the policies of the...
Dear Readers, I was going to write this second article about the Dakota Access Pipeline anyway. With plans to include some additional background information and to update the situation. But I really...
View ArticleTrump’s US: What’s Next for Syria, ISIS & the Middle East?
If you like me care about people who are turned into refugees by US reliance on arms sales and drone strikes over diplomacy, if you care about societies driven into conflict by the changing climate, if...
View ArticleWhy are Women Around the World Endangered by Trump?
Last Saturday I felt so excited, so empowered to be part of women marching to resist Trump’s agenda in an amazing 673 cities around the world. Women, joined by their children and by men, took to the...
View ArticleWhy Surround the White House?
Why am I going to Washington, DC next Saturday? Why do I want to join with others in the People’s Climate March to surround the White House? Why do I want to tell Trump to pay attention to the fires...
View ArticleDo You Know the Hokule’a?
No, it’s not a mysterious dance craze. It’s a boat. And you well may have heard of it since it did travel the globe for three years with the end of that voyage occurring in Honolulu, HI, on June 17,...
View ArticleFuturistic Settings, Contemporary Observations: Recommended Recent Sci-Fi for...
Despite the supposedly ground-breaking nature of literary fiction, genre fiction – mysteries and thrillers, and science fiction – have often become the place where hard-hitting themes of social...
View ArticleWomen March Again – January 20th!
On January 20th, women across the US will mark the first anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March, the largest coordinated protest in US history. This year marches, actions and rallies are planned in over...
View ArticleWhere is Our Welcome Mat for the World’s Displaced?
There are a record-breaking 65 million displaced people in the world today. War, persecution, the ravages of climate change and economic desperation have driven them into the hard choice of leaving...
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