empowerment & inner transformation…
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A call to humanity from Climate Change Community Right now, as you read this, a heat dome — one of the most punishing in modern record-keeping — is sitting on top of the East Coast like a lid on a boiling pot. New York flirted with 100 degrees this week. Philadelphia logged three straight days... Continue Reading →
By Mr. Alvarez | Climate Change Community LLC Say His Name: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo On the morning of July 7, 2026, at about 6:50 a.m., a 52-year-old man named Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Canal Street, in Houston's East End — a historically Latino... Continue Reading →
Emotional growth is not about becoming less sensitive. It is about becoming more aware, more responsible, and more intentional. Emotional maturity rarely arrives all at once. It develops through repeated moments of awareness: noticing what is happening inside us, understanding why it matters, and choosing a response that reflects the person we want to become.... Continue Reading →
The People's Bill of Rights 250: Who's Really Behind the Invitation to Rewrite the American Promise? As the nation counts through its 250th year, a new digital initiative is asking millions of everyday Americans a deceptively simple question: what rights should this country actually guarantee you? The People's Bill of Rights 250 (thepeoplesrights250.org) wants your... Continue Reading →
A reflection on ecological restoration, planted forests, and the courage to act when the future feels fragile There are moments in the climate and ecological emergency when the scale of what we face can make hope feel unreasonable. We look at expanding deserts, damaged soils, rising heat, broken water cycles, displaced communities, and the continued... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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