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Donated to Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation. My July clay art is about drought in a previous year, good for the next two ice ages if anyone is here to see it.  Some of my other pieces are at this link. My favorite climate video I recently watched was How Earth’s Geography Will Change With Climate Change [in…

The recent idea to divert Mississippi River water (over objections of people who live there) to the Colorado River System reminds me of the bizarre no-music ballet scene in the film Amadeus. It seems more vital to greatly reduce GHGs (greenhouse gas emissions) instead, even if fossil fuel companies resist. I recall a story about a…

Used with permission of DW. It seems no one told these water managers from California to Germany to Afghanistan about the importance of distraction, sugarcoating, and when politically needed, bold-faced lies.  In a more serious tone, the desperation reminds me of when William Shatner, Star Trek’s original Captain James Kirk, in 2015 wanted a water pipeline from Seattle…

  I’m grateful Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington accepted my Clay Salmon Poem in their art collection.  I recently donated other pieces to Washington State University, Vancouver Library, and Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Library, a program of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.  Imagine, by 2053 if IPCC reports at current rates are true,  …

Used with permission of DW. In the above YouTube, Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of Postsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research explains jet stream weather changes as “hot dry sunny weather lingers for longer, maybe for weeks on end, therefore causing drought problems, wildfire problems, and also the rainfall systems are moving more slowly, and that was one…

After the Bureaucratic Meeting dried salmon, raw apple, hand-picked blackberries,a few honest words circling wood firefollowed by silent glowfor people who crave real food. Everyone here knowsour dreams tell uswe put too many limits on ourselves tosee, feel, think, do. Maybe there’s a song so ancientit makes all stop to listenwho we really are, and…

On a recent business trip to San Francisco, of course I wrote a climate poem: San Francisco Climate Clues, June 21, 2022 In Hotel Caza painting, room 418,orange octopus tentacles reach upthousands of feetunder Golden Gate Bridge like Nature making COVID-19,  BA.4, BA.5,Atlantic and Gulf Coast hurricanes, fires,heatwaves, ice melt, sea rise, dead coralsdisrupting lives…

Industrial Oz is a drug to keep us away from ourselves. On a three-day solo fasting in the North Cascades illusions vanish, and three options appear in dreams by a wildflower creek: 1) Pretend life on Earth isn’t dying. 2) Pretend humans aren’t to blame. 3) Speak and write the truth. I’m grateful for a…

Used with permission of Multimedia Journalist & Filmmaker Kim Paul Nguyen The above VICE News video with 750,175 views as of June 8, 2022, reminds me of my May 18, 2021 post “Thoughts and Prayers for Thousands of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Farmers/Ranchers, Facing Water Shut Off for ‘First Year in History’ as ‘Millions of Migrating Birds’ Suffer and ‘70% of […

10-month-old American Shepherd understands importance of play,close observation,pushing limits of boundaries,value of half-chewed stuffed frog, eating when hungry,sleeping when tired,trusting smell,always removing labels.   Emotionally available,he is better companythan many scholarswho understand human impacts of climate crisislike Koda understands origin of the universe.  In a related matter, my favorite recent climate article is “The kids are not…