ChatGPT said: Before you click away, please take a moment to scroll down and explore the extended list of links at the end of this article. You will be hard-pressed to find another collection this long, this carefully selected, and this focused on honest news, media ethics, and the realities of the Climate and Ecological... Continue Reading →
250 Candles, One Clave: A July 4th Message for the America We’re Still Becoming
A reflection on our Semiquincentennial, the noise that's trying to drown out our goodness, and the deeper emergency waiting on the other side of our attention. Two hundred and fifty years. That's a long time for a nation to keep arguing with itself about who it wants to be. Today, on this Fourth of July,... Continue Reading →
Liberty Further Extended: Lemuel Haynes, Natural Rights, and the Radical Promise of 1776
A bit of historical background in preparation for tomorrow’s three blog posts: one here, one at ClimateChangeCommunity.com, and one at cCcmty.com. They should be posted by 6:00 am. Executive Summary In the summer of 1776, as the Continental Congress debated independence from Britain, a twenty-three-year-old Black soldier and lay preacher named Lemuel Haynes composed the... Continue Reading →
When the Car Becomes the Battery: BYD’s Quiet Revolution and the Wall Between Us and a Cleaner Future
There is a video making the rounds from a channel called Snap Shift, and the title alone stops you cold: BYD Just Killed The Battery Pack — The Car Itself Is The Battery. It sounds like hype. It sounds like the kind of breathless claim we have all learned to scroll past. But this time... Continue Reading →
La Excelencia – Salsa Na’Ma (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/gC7NurqEbxM?si=SVZjwFTgtvr21dXH "Salsa Na'Ma" is a lively and infectious salsa track by La Excelencia, showcasing their signature blend of traditional salsa rhythms with modern energy. The song is featured on their debut album, "Salsa Con Conciencia," released in 2006. La Excelencia's "Salsa Na'Ma" captures the essence of classic salsa music while infusing it with their own... Continue Reading →
Embracing Global Citizenship: Uniting for Our Shared Climate Emergency
Opening: One Clave, Many Hands Before any of the data or the history, let me start where I actually come from. I'm a Boricua rumbero from New York. Put a pair of congas in front of me and something old wakes up in my hands. Here is what a lifetime inside this music has taught... Continue Reading →
When Everyone Talks About Bad Weather, But Almost No One Names the Climate and Ecological Emergency
The phrase we all may be looking for at this moment in history is intimidation, menacing behavior, harassment, or fear-based coercion. Here is three separate polished addendums in my own voice. Yes, AI enhanced, but in my own voice. Addendum 1: Regarding Two Recent Public Experiences Recently, I experienced two separate public incidents where I... Continue Reading →
Climate and Ecological Collapse Demand AI — Not Fear of It
A Problem the Brain Was Never Built to Hold The Climate and Ecological Emergency was never a simple problem, and it will never yield to a simple slogan. It is a living system — a knot of feedback loops, delayed consequences, political inertia, economic resistance, and the stubborn architecture of human psychology. We are not... Continue Reading →
Young Adults/Children: This Planet Is Yours!
A message to every young person about the Climate and Ecological Emergency Imagine waking up to clean air, drinking water you never have to worry about, eating food grown in healthy soil, and looking out at a world full of life — forests, rivers, animals, and people all thriving together. That should not be a... Continue Reading →
Disheartened, But Not Defeated
What History's Breaking Points Teach Us About Adaptive Resiliency Part 1 — Adaptive-Resiliency – Part II will be posted Friday night at the new Adaptive Resiliency site. Version One — For the Community A lot of people are tired right now. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind that settles into your... Continue Reading →
A Heads-Up on Posting, Study Focus, and Climate Tribe Social
A note to followers and the public I want to share a brief but important update about my posting schedule, the direction of my study work, and the continued preparation of Climate Tribe Social. I am not going to stop posting to ClimateChangeCommunity.com or the other sites under the Climate Change Community umbrella. That work... Continue Reading →
Until Everyone Is Safe: World Refugee Day, Our Children’s Worries, and the Choice We Still Have
Until Everyone Is Safe: World Refugee Day, Our Children's Worries, and the Choice We Still Have The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. — Paul Farmer Today is June 20th. World Refugee Day. And this one is not like the others. This year marks... Continue Reading →