Saturday April 24 2004

America the not so beatiful. Cherishing the land. Economics, war, ecology - its hard to keep these issues unrelated

• Soundbites provided by members of the Liberty School Disctrict:

1. Hugh Blumenfeld - American Redux
Barehanded - 1 800 Prime CD

James Gordon links ecology and economy well with this tune

2. James Gordon - Coke Oven Brook
Pipe Street Dreams - www.folkera.com/windriver
"if there was no smoke thered be no bread upon the table

• Water is 83% of our blood
• We each use about 12,000 gallons of water every year

3. Magpie Greg Artzner, Terry Leonino - Water
Circle of Life - pobox Takoma Pk MC 20913
"keep it clean for me and I'll keep it clean for you"

• Here is an example of the water we use everyday
• 3-7 gallons for toilet,
• 25-30 gallons for tub,
• 50-70 gallons for a 10 minute shower,
• 1 washing machine load uses 25-40 gallons,
• 1 dishwasher load uses 9-12 gallons

5. Jennifer Noxon  - Water
Watch as You Walk   jenoxon@magma.ca
http://www.magma.ca/~jenoxon/jn.html
Written after watching women in Soufriere, St. Lucia, balancing a day's supply of water

Each person throws away approximately four pounds of garbage every day.
Most families throw away about 88 pounds of plastic every year

6. Kermit the Frog/Muppets -On My Pond
Marlo Thomas and Friends, Free to Be A Family
www.eyeontomorrow.com/embracingthechild/bookspecialthomasmarlo_.htm
As Kermit enjoys his pond,  messy teens and garbage dumping trucks who overpower his quiet tune.

7. Cosy Sheridan - Don't Go In The Water
Grand design - Cozoid@aol.com
 "Arsenic, acetone, methylene chloride..."

8. Jim and Dave - Don't Go Near the Shore Today

• Did you know that 22 billion plastic bottle a day are thrown away.
• Here is an example of how long it takes some things take to break down
• plastics take 500 years,
• aluminum cans take 500 years,
• organic materials, take 6 months,
• cotton, rags, paper take 6 months.

• Disposable diapers take 500 years to decompose.

11. Dead Ducks
From a MD and I have no clue where I got it at this point
Oil and water don't mix
 

12. Capital Steps - God Bless My SUV
Between Iraq and a Hard Place

"The vernal equinox calls on all mankind to recognize and respect Earth’s beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land.  Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance."
Margaret Mead - Read Margaret Mead - 1977 Earth Day Statement

13. Susan Graham White - The Farm
Soundling Land - Big Bay Records

14. Tom Chapin - This Pretty Planet
This Pretty Planet - Sony

15. Jay Mankita - Living Planet
Jay Mankita - self

16. Magpie - We Belong to the Earth
Seed on the Prairie -Long Tail

17. Victoria Parks -  I'm Going Solar
Sure Feels Like Home  - Victoria@juke.com
 http://www.juke.com/artists/Parks_Victoria/Parks_Victoria.html
"I'm going solar just as soon as I can"

18. Artisan - NIMBY
Our Back Yard - artisan@artifact.demon.co.uk
"anywhere but my back yard"

If every family used 10 fewer bags a month we'd save 2.5 billion bags a year.

19. David Roth - I Don't Need a Bag
Nights at the Chez - RothDM@aol.com 1 800 484-2367
 "To take a brand new bag everytime I shop's a drag"

20. Herdman, Hills, Mangsen  - (McGann) Requiem for the Trees
 Voices - Flying Fish/Rounder
Anne@AnneHills.com
 "They fell like thunder and left no trace"

Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees

21. Zoe Lewis - When the Developers Came to Tea
Fishbone, Wishbone, Funnybone - Dog Productions

22. John Gorka - Houses in the Fields
Jack's Crows - High Street Records

23. David Francey - Torn Screen Door
Torn Screen Door - Laker

24. Tim Flannery - Road into Town
Kentucky Towns - PSB Records
"sell us the ground"

25. Tom Paxton Anne Hills - There Goes the Mountain
Under American Skies - Appleseed

26. Tom Neilson - Four Lane Highways and Moblie Homes
Living on Maximum Wage -Roaring Jelly

27. Stan Rogers - Make and Break Harbour
Home in Halifax - Fogarty's Cove

Feul consumption is cut by as much as 10% by turning down your thermastat by 1 degree.
The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours

28. Magpie - Eagle and The Hawk
Seed on the Prairie - Long Tail Records

29. Jay Mankita - I am a Dolphin
self - info@jaymankita.com
"I swan around the oil slick..... will I ever make it home"

30. Night Sun  - Breathing
One Moment of Grace - www.interlog.com/~brc
http://www.nightsun.org     nightsun@kingston.net
The bellows of their accordian mimic the sound of the narwhales

Metal Drums - Patty Larkin
Live in the Square - Philo  www.pattylarkin.com
"63 million.. that won't bring back their children"

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