A Dusting Of Denialist Dumbery: Another Day, Another Letter
This is a late-breaking update to my diary of last night, except that since it's a new diary, it's not an update at all.I sent a letter to the Boston Herald day before yesterday in response to an...
View ArticleInsulting Inhofe = Fun. They Were NEVER Going To Publish This One.
Here's today's special from the Climate Letter Project— a letter that was certain not to see print...but it sure was fun to write.The Times-Record-News of Wichita Falls, TX is reporting on drought...
View ArticleAddiction And Stupidity: Two Letters
Here are two recent hits from the Climate Letter Project, now in its fourth year of daily LTEs on the subject of climate change.Every day I type "climate change news" into my searchbar, then rummage...
View ArticleA Tiny And Localized Betrayal...
...hurts worse than all the big and generalized ones.Almost ten years ago I began teaching a talented young man who had developed an interest in the musical traditions I've studied and performed since...
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Singing For The Planet (350 Benefit Concert, Boston, 4/19)
Yo! — Boston & Massachusetts Kossacks, why not make this the occasion for a get-together?++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Three Of New England's Most Creative...
View Article#NoKXL — The Pipeline To Oblivion: Memes From The Climate Letter Project
The Climate Letter Project is now in its fourth year of daily letters to the editor, and if you exclude "idiotic Republican denialists," there's probably no single topic which has triggered more LTEs...
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Dancing For The Planet - 350ma Benefit Concert: Boston, MA, 06/21/13
Navarasa Dance Theater Nani Agbeli & The Agbekor Society Zoé Dance CompanyFriday, June 21 — 7:00 pm — Boston
View ArticleI'm A Lesbian Democratic Chicken, And I'm Voting For Colonel Sanders (MA-SEN)
I was out canvassing in my home town of Medford, Massachusetts this afternoon, pounding the pavements on behalf of Ed Markey. My partner Jerry was a Haitian guy out on his first time canvassing, and...
View ArticleHow It Would Feel To Be Free: The Climate Letter Project's Fourth Year
It was three and a half years ago that I began writing letters to the editor on the subject of climate change. This daily "practice of conscience" has had its good impacts on my life: the ego boost of...
View ArticleMy Mother's Abortion(s): For Me, Pro-Choice Is Personal
In two separate diaries over the last several years, I've told the story of how my mother's life was saved by a "partial-birth abortion" carried out on the delivery table in the 1950s. Given the...
View ArticleToshi Seeger has passed, at 91.
Sing Out reports:Toshi-Aline Ohta Seeger, wife of folk music icon Pete Seeger, passed away overnight on Tuesday, July 9th. She was a mother, an organizer, an activist and filmmaker … and an essential...
View ArticleOff To India! The Climate Letter Project On Holiday
Folks, I'm happy to say that the Climate Letter Project (that is, me) is getting a vacation. For 27 days I'm not going to write a single letter, I swear. Mind you, that's because I've written enough...
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History In My Hands: A Box Of Treasures
I have a small box which holds some objects that are important to me for various reasons. Every so often I open it and contemplate them. There are droplets of aluminum left over from the destruction...
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Hummingbirds: A Few Words Between Songs
Since January 1, 2010, I've been writing a letter to the editor every day on some aspect of climate change. I get published fairly frequently. All the letters, published or not, eventually show up at...
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Playing For The Planet: Environmental Benefit Concert, This Saturday in Boston
On Saturday, November 2, the eighth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert will showcase master musicians from three different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural improvisation, with...
View ArticleClimate is a Feminist Issue: Our Threatened Cultural Infrastructure
This article was cross-posted at Running Gamak, home of the Climate Letter Project. Christopher Hitchens, in his critique of Mother Teresa, articulated a phrase that's been running through my mind a...
View ArticleChanging The World, One Gig At A Time: Introducing The Climate Message
Everybody who knows me knows that I've been engaged in a long project of daily Letters to the Editor on the subject of climate change. The Climate Letter Project has been an ongoing practice of...
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The Climate Message: Thoughts Toward An Ecology Of Music
I remember reading that a natural ecosystem that had taken thousands of years to develop can be destroyed in ten minutes by a guy driving a bulldozer. That seems true enough; horrifying and...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 2/10/14: Fight The KXL!!
Howdy!I'm WarrenS, and I was very happy to be asked to contribute to Kitchen Table Kibitzing. I have a kitchen table and I wouldn't mind doing more kibitzing at it.I'm a singer and a music teacher,...
View ArticleMusicians & Performers — The Climate Message Video Festival Needs You!
Bagpipers, guitarists, ophecleidists, pianists, crwthists, drummers, Alpenhornists, bassists, sitarists, fiddlers, singers, songwriters, composers, dancers, poets, mimes, jugglers, and...
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