Blues for America
Blues may be America’s greatest cultural gift to the world; if not, it’s certainly on the short list. Blues embodies human resilience in the face of adversity and suffering.
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Darwin’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful: What’s Musical about Biology and Why Does That Matter?
The goal of this essay is to reignite a conversation with the Post Carbon Institute’s own Richard Heinberg about music and change in planetary systems, a conversation which began in the fall of 2017. I’m captioning this second stage of the conversation “What’s musical about biology and why does that matter?”
Listening to Plants, Whales, and Elephants
The only way an ecocentric (or any) belief system spreads is from person to person, as all missionaries have understood from the days that Buddha’s disciples walked from India to China or sailed to Sri Lanka or Japan.
A Song of Our Warming Planet – Understanding climate change through music
University of Minnesota undergrad Daniel Crawford illustrates climate change with his cello.