A Poem for Humanity

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time if the droughts came,

and the corn died, the rain quit,

and the game animals left,

we just packed our simple villages

and moved to another place . . .

a place where the precious rain fell,

the rivers sweetly flowed,

and the corn grew tall again.

There was moving room for all.

But no longer.

We must therefore now carefully

– very carefully –

protect and conserve the water we have

for the future. For we know

we have only borrowed this sacred land

from our children.

– Doug Stewart

Mitigation is the Best Adaptation

Wind Turbines in Tunisia Photo by Anastasia Palagutina on Unsplash

“Mitigation is the best adaptation.”

Quamrul Chowdhury, Adaptation Expert and Lead Negotiator for the Least Developed Countries

The Hunger Stones resurfaced last month along central European rivers. These river boulders are carved with inscriptions that memorialize years of suffering, famine, and economic distress from past droughts.  One prophetic writing from 1616 translates… Continue reading

Homage to the Earthworm

Image by Gerhard Gellinger from Pixabay

Did you know that Charles Darwin spent his life enamored with worms?

“It may be doubted if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures,” Darwin wrote in his final book (“The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Actions

It’s the End of a Decade and Time to Clean Out Your Crap

It’s 2020 baby!

It is the last year of the decade. This has been a decade where we’ve seen an unbelievable escalation of climate disruption along with a groundswell in the global youth climate movement. And, none of it is over yet (remember I said last year in the decade) as emissions are still going up.

This isn’t some post about the Marie

Lewis the Koala is this week’s face of the climate emergency

Australian koalaAustralian koala Image by Claudia Beyli from Pixabay

Last week, a video of an Australian grandmother taking the shirt off her back and plucking a koala from a tree, as a bushfire engulfed the area around them went viral. The koala was taken to a local koala hospital where he was treated. The rescuer named him “Ellenborough Lewis” after her grandchildren. Everyone… Continue reading

Birthing the World We Want

That Was Then

It’s record hot everywhere,” I heard a guy say as I was sitting under a tree outside of a café in Pagosa Springs, Colorado in late July. His son–maybe seven years old– replied,
“Yeah, if it’s this hot now, imagine what it will be like in 30 years. You’re lucky. Your generation screwed it up and we are the ones who have

Earth Day: Love Yourself- Love Your Mother


“The Earth has lost her equilibrium. The fact that we have lost connection with Earth’s natural rhythm is the cause of modern sickness…

We need to realize that the conditions that will help to restore the necessary balance don’t come from outside us; they come from inside us, from our own mindfulness, our own level of

Lessons Learned from Hurricanes & Connecting Climate Dots

 

When I left Florida five years ago, hurricanes weren’t high on my list of reasons why. It was more the rat race; the traffic, the cost of living, the apathy, and oh yeah, no more hurricanes.

Living in South Florida for over twenty years, I’d seen a lot of hurricanes. Most notably was Hurricane Andrew, a cat… Continue reading

Are Catastrophic Weather Events the New Normal?

 

There are a lot of words being used to describe Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath; unprecedented, historic, catastrophic, one-in-500, one-in-1000, costliest natural disaster in US history. You get the idea; Harvey’s devastation was massive and on a scale that is hard to wrap our brains around.

I even heard one stat that said we’ve had 10 1/1000… Continue reading

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