BSO for a documentary about the climate change in the Antarctic. Dramatic and sad.

Antarctic Climate Change

A track from the vault from my previous incarnation, White Minus Red, which was myself + Leigh Hegg aka Lephrenic which is sadly more apt for these times than it was when it was written. What better time for anthropocene avant-pop?! Try to leave something nice behind..

A provocation to consider your legacy..

future archeology

Begins with a gentle, lyrical piano melody. I'm using the piano to warn us of climate change. Strings and horns help to conjure up images of our beautiful planet before the piano melody returns to sadly remind us of what we might lose if we don't act now.

Paradise Burning

Verse 1:  
We used to dance on frozen seas  
Now we cry for melting dreams  
The ice remembers every name  
But we just burn, we pass the blame  

Pre-Chorus:  
The sky is coughing ash and fire  
The tide is climbing higher, higher  

Chorus:  
This is the song of the last glacier  
Whispering truths into the vapor  
She bleeds in blue, we drink her tears  
And wonder why the end feels near  

Verse 2:  
Forests silent, oceans loud  
The sun hides behind a cloud  
We made gods of greed and speed  
Now the Earth forgets to breathe  

Pre-Chorus:  
There’s no planet B to find  
We are running out of time  

Chorus:  
This is the song of the last glacier  
Whispering truths into the vapor  
She bleeds in blue, we drink her tears  
And wonder why the end feels near  

Bridge:  
We had a chance, a window wide  
But closed it with our poisoned pride  

Final Chorus:  
Last glacier, sing your mourn  
For all the lives we left forlorn  
If silence comes, may we recall  
That once, she tried to save us all  


Last Glacier

In this weeks stream, Nancy and Erica dive right into whats going on with our local watershed in their conversation with Joel Betts, Watershed Specialist with the Kent Conservation District. They soak in some knowledge from the PhD student who has a love for the Great Lakes and everything that lives within it. Learn alongside us in this episode as we float down this river of wisdom and wonders!

Farm to Fish with Joel Betts

Paisaje sonoro que describe la actividad acústica durante la noche en las Selvas de Yungas de Tucumán, Argentina.

NocheYungeña

This week we are discussing one of the more challenging aspects of the UK’s race to net zero by 2050 - decarbonising our homes and buildings. Jon Saltmarsh, Chief Technology Officer at Energy Systems Catapult helps us to explore this.

Jon Saltmarsh - NetZero and changing our homes and buildings

Imagine you’re standing at a bottle depot with an empty pop can. You can get a dime back, or you can take a chance at winning $1,000. Which would you choose?

How a lottery-style refund system could boost recycling

❄️ Cryo – 3nthal

A progressive house journey inspired by the beauty and fragility of glaciers.
Blending uplifting melodies, danceable beats, and sounds inspired by skiing and winter sports, Cryo is made to make you move… and make you think.

🌍 This track is both a tribute to snowy mountains and a call to action against the melting ice that threatens our winters.

🎿 Perfect for your après-ski sessions, EDM / progressive playlists, and winter nights.

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Cryo

3NTHAL - Cryo

Two landmark rulings on the urgent responsibility of states to address the climate crisis are issued—by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a proceeding brought by Chile and Colombia, and by the World Court in a proceeding brought by the threatened Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu. Meanwhile in the USA, the Trump regime withdraws from the Paris Agreement, removes greenhouse gases from EPA oversight, drops subsidies for solar energy—and even destroys NASA's climate-monitoring satellites! This as receding Arctic ice sheets and sea ice begin to destabilize the climate-regulating Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), melting glaciers unleash deluges from the Swiss Alps to the Himalayas of Nepal, wildfires rage from Canada to California to the Mediterranean, and ocean acidification crosses a "'planetary boundary" that portends global biosphere collapse. In Episode 290 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg takes an unflinching look at the long odds for humanity's future—even if we manage to avoid nuclear war. 

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Meanwhile, the planet is dying....

Welcome to Oxfam’s exclusive Breaking Radio Silence Audiobook! Across the world, voices are suppressed and resistance is silenced. Our Radio Silence campaign aims to inform and inspire; you’re here because you chose to tune in, reconnect and make some noise about some of the world’s worst yet least discussed humanitarian crises. This audiobook is full of inspiration, tips and guidance for keeping the fight going and the movement growing. Narrated by Rehab, a Sudanese artist, activist and human rights advocate now living in the UK. Rehab works with organisations supporting refugees and asylum seekers fleeing the impacts of conflict, inequality and climate change. She even joined Oxfam at Glastonbury Festival this year to perform a DJ set! Rehab has given her powerful voice to this audiobook - we hope you’re inspired to make some noise and break Radio Silence!

Breaking Radio Silence - The Audiobook

Leaving a place more messed up than it was when you arrived.

Downsville Tonight

Nancy and Erica serve the tea once again as they dish about opposition to the CAAP. As they celebrate this big win for sustainable efforts in Grand Rapids, they talk through the City Commission's top 20 priorities for the CAAP as well as "concerns" coming from the business community. 

Opps be CAAPPIN

On his way to the garden, Pilili, a refugee man meets one of his best friends, Davisco, who’s also heading to cut down a painted tree in the forest that his community has long preserved it. Pilili advises Davisco not to tamper with the painted tree. But defiant Davisco, goes ahead to try felling it despite his friends repeated warnings.

As Davisco cuts the painted tree, a local emerges at a distance and starts shouting at him. While chasing Davisco, he misses him with an arrow. Davisco screams and runs away for Pilili’s help. Under intense fear, he narrates how he survived being arrowed in the event of cutting the painted tree.

An environmental expert warns community members against cutting down painted trees and urges them to uphold local environmental and forest management instructions. He goes on to emphasize that trees attracts rainfall, protects the environment from strong winds, prevents drought, and regulates greenhouse gases.

This message was produced by Allvox under the GreenCamp project in Imvepi refugee settlement, Uganda.


No painted tree cutting - Bari - rfb

A refugee man visits her neighbor. As he arrives her home, he first hears only chicken clucking and wonders whether he will find mama Konyu or not. 

The man starts to call her aloud. While singing at the backyard, Mama Konyi sweeps goat dung. Upon hearing her neighbor’s voice, she stops sweeping and responds to him. 

The man asks what she wants to do with them. Disappointedly in her tone, Mama Konyu replies that the goat dung smells a lot and so she wants to sweep and burn them. The man interjects and explains to her the easiest steps she can follow to turn goat, cattle or poultry waste plus that of plant residues into a rich manure. He says once the component decomposes in a pit, Mama Konyu can spread them in her garden to improve the garden's soil fertility. The man testifies reaping huge benefits from using animal wastes as manure.

An agricultural expert discourages the community from burning and misuse of animal wastes, adding that dung from goats, cattle or chicken wastes improve soil fertility and provide crops with rich nutrients for suitable growth. He tells refugees and locals that spreading animal wastes on their crops or the trees they planted will lead to better yields and eventually, a green refugee settlement.

This message was produced by Allvox under the GreenCamp project in Imvepi refugee settlement, Uganda.


No burning animal waste - Bari - rfb

A hungry man wakes up from a day nap in anticipation that his wife will bring him lunch food. As his hunger deepens, he loses patience. He jumps off the bed and approaches his wife at the kitchen.

When he opens the kitchen door, he angrily asks his wife for food.  However, his frustrated wife tells him there is no food yet because people are being chased back from the forest over firewood gathering. Before she completes explaining her statement, her husband slaps her, and starts beating her up. 

A neighbor hears her loud cry and runs in to help. He separates the couples and explains to them about the new concept of making briquettes from plant residences as a cheap, convenient and safe cooking fuel they can make from home.

An environmental expert then warns refugee men and women against fighting over fuel for cooking, explaining that women and men should work together to make briquettes as fuel for cooking. He says briquettes can be made faster, burns for long, produces enough heat, and cooks clean and faster, leading to low demand for firewood and a green refugee settlement.

This message was produced by Allvox under the GreenCamp project in Imvepi refugee settlement, Uganda.


Briquettes for clean and safe cooking- Bari - rfb

A man whistles as he walks to his garden at mid-morning. He finds her neighbor, Ms. Akulia, removing and making heaps of dried plant wastes. 

The man greets Akulia and then asks her why she is heaping the dried plant residues. Akulia replies, saying she wants to burn them before planting crops. The man interrupts her, telling her by burning the plant residues she degrades the soil fertility, deprives it of useful organic nutrition, and pollutes the air and worsens the harsh climatic changes. 

An agricultural expert warns community members against burning plant residues, stressing that plant residues are organic manure to the soil, provide heavy mulches to crops and trees by preventing excessive heat from stunting growth while retaining water for long period. This he says moves the community to a fertile land with green refugee settlement. 

This message was produced by Allvox under the GreenCamp project in Imvepi refugee settlement, Uganda.

No agricultural wastes burning - Bari - rfb

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I’m loving having so much fun writing songs. 😉

"Sarah McDonald effortlessly segues from applying a dash of tropical swelter to thirties standards, tinkering with Thelonius Monk torch songs to a soul jazz rendition of an Amy Winehouse classic." 

Joel Shortman, Rathdowne Records.

"..deceptively laid back and self-assured, with an undercurrent of emotions waiting to sweep you by. When she sings “Rusted brandy in a diamond glass”, it’s the rust she focuses on, not the diamond. Tom Waits would approve...

..There’s a lot of nostalgic glamour associated with the ’20s and ’30’s era. Singers who choose to sing this material often end up as replicas of the sultry divas of the past, dressing up in satin gowns and pearls and stale femininity. Not Sarah McDonald. She approaches her material with a tomboyish attitude, phrasing the classic jazz and obscure torch songs that comprise her set list with a punk sensitivity and a kind of modern-day angst delivered by this beautiful, soulful chili-infused chocolate voice of hers. When she opens her mouth, she showers her audience with raw emotion. No pretense, no polished femininity, no nonsense. It helps that she’s sexy as hell when she does it; and that she’s surrounded by a killer band: Ron Romero on tenor sax, Kumar Shome on guitar, Ben Hanlon on the bass and Lewis Pierre-Humbert on the drums. As these musicians spew fire from their instruments, people get up and dance to her singing, even if she sings Monk’s “I mean you” (not the most danceable song out there)."

Nikos Fotakis, australianjazz.net

Sarah McDonald evokes cool smoky jazz club atmosphere with expressive melifluous phrasing contrasting with rhythmic dexterity.  She is a singer who has been as influenced by horn players and drummers as she has by the great vocalists. Having delved deeply into music, she draws from the greats of the history of jazz, blues and soul and selects choice standards, along with original, contemporary and more esoteric repertoire that she infuses with a soulful authenticity.

She has had a wealth of experience performing original music in various guises, playing in a range of contemporary original bands, world music ensembles and playing music for circus, theatre and film.

She also plays flute and sings in Tarab Ensemble, playing classical Arabic music:

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