The descriptive title for Episode 14 is "The State of the World on Climate." This episode features Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D. head of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab (RAEL) at UC Berkeley. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, along with his team, for their work with the U.N. for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Created for the Podcast Series, Climate Change is Here. Hosted by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker and Journalist. Now on Apple Podcasts, and at ClimateChangeisHere.com. 

Dan discusses the merits and achievements of the recent COP26 in Glasgow, while addressing shortcomings, compromises, and most importantly, time frames, tools and trust.

Climate Change is Here Episode 14 1 - 2 26 : 15 TRT Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D.

The descriptive title for Episode 15 is "What if we save the planet and leave the world behind? A conversation on Environmental Justice." This episode features Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D. head of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab (RAEL) at UC Berkeley. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, along with his team, for their work with the U.N. for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Created for the Podcast Series, Climate Change is Here. Hosted by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker and Journalist. Now on Apple Podcasts, and at ClimateChangeisHere.com. Dan discusses the merits and achievements of the recent COP26 in Glasgow, while addressing shortcomings, compromises, and most importantly, time frames, tools and trust.

Climate Change is Here Episode 15 1 - 2 26 : 45 TRT Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D.

I was doing the Piano/keyboard, but not towards the end, I was talking about the slope yet nice sounding like when I was in Greenberg Elementary back in the day in Mrs. Sharon Solomon's class or in the actual music class. I arranged the different sounds together. I do this to get through what I am feeling. IT come's in cycles, just the the cycles of my siblings. I am not too sure which one I am going to get or how they are feeling on that given day. 

Eh... So I take how my day went, then mix around sounds through feelings. It helps me. I Love my Siblings. I still keep on trying.

Blooming Into Time

Ups & Downs with Siblings

Lithium in America tells the not unfamiliar story of industry and government pushing forward huge energy projects with market driven exuberance despite local opposition and failure to consult with tribes. 

The film shines a light on these questionable practices as we interview leaders and members from 5 tribes with respect to 4 major projects in 3 states that are bellweathers of policy today, and which represent a common mindset and set of practices, however misguided.

-Dorece Sam (Pai-Sho)
-Josephine Dick (Pai-Sho)
-Will Falk, Attorney
-Max Wilbert, Author
-Preston Arrow-weed (Quechan)
-Faron Owl (Quechan)
-Luis Olmedo (Comite Civico Del Valle)
-Pat Gonzales Rogers, Yale School of the Environment
-Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland
-Naenlyn Pike (Apache)
-Matthew Leivas, Sr. (Chemehuevi)
-Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla)

Narration by Robert Lundahl
Written and Directed by Robert Lundahl

Produced by Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Apache)

With Bradley Angel, Greenaction
and Preston Arrow-weed (Quechan)

According to Popular Mechanics Magazine, 

"This high concentration (of lithium) is found primarily at Thacker Pass in Nevada, and is already a controversial mining location. The area, also known as Peehee Mu'huh, is the homeland of many indigenous tribes and played an important role in its historical clash with U.S. soldiers. An indigenous organization dedicated to protecting the site even called potential mining operations a form of “green colonialism,” and is also engaged in stopping a mining site on the Oregon side of the caldera as well.

Apart from its cultural impact, any mining project in the area could also affect groundwater levels for local farmers and ranchers, not to mention its disruption to local fauna, such as pronghorn antelope, golden eagles, and sage grouse.

Right now, the McDermitt Caldera is a 40 million metric ton lithium conundrum with no clear answer."

Lithium In America

Pat Flanagan is a longtime compadre and friend and informal co-writer. She's a scientist, a botanist, biologist, naturalist and educator.

Pat tells the story,  the only story, the big story of humans and the environment, how people first got here, what they found and why it matters today.

It was my home for so many years as a kid, 3500 California Blvd in Pasadena. a lush environment in the shade of sparkling mountains gradually eclipsed by the dreaded smog. My family would escape for spring break to the desert, where similar post war 50s/60s families congregated.
In light of global heating, I made a Documentary Feature Film about it, the desert , and it's ecological and cultural vulnerabilities. It's called Who Are My People?

(Clip)

In postwar America there were kids everywhere and they congregated too. One such family, the Johansings, who owned a refuge for the traveler, called  The 29 Palms Inn, fate had chosen to be the custodians and stewards of a 9000 (THOUSAND) year old refuge, at that time long ago, a rapidly changing landscape inhabited by early Indigenous peoples to the Americas, following the last ice age.

It is here, our story begins.

The 9000 Year History Of The Oasis Of Mara

Pupfish. Little blue creatures endemic to pools upwelling amid rock strata at Ash Meadows.
Here on Creative FRONTLINE, we’ve done several shows on water in the West. Only not the same water from your tap exactly but the waters in springs, aquifers, and rivers, and now, Death Valley and it’s mysterious partially underground Amargosa River. 
Water moves good things and bad in the desert including radioactive materials from nuclear testing years ago.
We’re here with Amargosa Conservancy’s Mason Voehl, discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Pupfish are good.

Amargosa

Emmy® Award winning Filmmaker and Journalist

The 9000 Year History Of The Oasis Of Mara

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