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[2017 was] “The Year Climate Change Began to Spin Out of Control” (MIT Technology Review) ArtCenter SOUTH FLORIDA is offering a one-year Miami residency with free housing, a $25,000 stipend, and “$7,500 in production funds” from April 1, 2018 – April 1, 2019 to help develop a 500 million dollar climate change “resiliency plan that incorporates…

moved over the waters, once rainbowed coral reefs bleached white as deer antlers, melting poles, and said to the man and woman,”You are so lost.” Judas politicians took “thirty pieces of silver” from oil companies to send us and our children into the abyss if we allow it. Pūliki used by permission of Sean Yoro…

In the King James Bible, Revelation 11:18 says “and [God] shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” Is that us?  Our family? Our community? How much carbon are we burning taking out coral reefs, forests, and many species? In a post below, I noted Robinson Meyer in 2016 reported at theatlantic.com/science, “The Average American Melts…

Before After Divest Now!

Turtles in Portland, Oregon’s Legacy Emanuel Children’s Garden by unknown artist. I’m back in Portland, Oregon, for the holidays, and grateful to Fomite Press in Vermont for accepting my next book of climate change poems Carbonfish Blues featuring cover and internal art by English artist Guy Denning, whose Jophiel Watches was on my last cover. Denning’s focus on…

Tonight the Thompson Fire, the third largest in California history [Dec. 22 Update — now largest in California history] according to Reuters’ reporter Caroline Anderson, continues to spread. Anderson wrote, “It has destroyed more than 1,000 structures and threatened 18,000 more [ . . . . and]  charred [ . . . ] 267,500 acres (108,253 hectares)…

(from 2015) (from tonight’s NYT article “California Fires Enter the Heart of Los Angeles”)

“Climate change: Top 10 things you should know” in Nov. 15, 2017, IRISH TIMES It’s not just an Oregon poet making these points. I started Climtalk.com where there are “No signups. No dues. No meetings. Instead [ . . . .] serve the cause however you want.” To inspire this, listen to Nirvana’s performance of David…

nonviolently, with a focus on sustainability. Each new car must post “Square Feet of Arctic Ice Cost Per Year.” The same goes for refrigerators, air conditioners, heaters, politicians. Each airplane flight, pound of red meat, hour of TV and cell phone. U. S. leaders, the only on Earth rejecting the Paris Climate Conference, will decide how…

Wading an Oregon coastal river, I saw a property sign “Beware of Grandma.” I couldn’t stop smiling.