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Tag Archives: environment

the complexities of doing well by the environment

March 14, 2011 Alex ShoumatoffBlogLeave a comment0

There’s a plan in California I believe, I read this in the NY Times coupla weeks back, to erect a forest of solar panels in some remote high desert. This will supply the energy needs of 135,000 homes– great– but the panels will ruin the habitat and reduce the population of the endangered bighorn sheep …Read More

why the environment ?

September 16, 2010 Alex ShoumatoffBlogLeave a comment0

This question was posed to me last winter by a 40 year film-maker who was interested in doing a t.v. series called Suitcase on the Loose, about me basically doing my thing, being a freefloating consciousness who travels around the world and celebrates its natural and cultural riches and exposes the bad actors who are …Read More

we gotta buck the tide : a call to action

March 9, 2010 Alex ShoumatoffBlogLeave a comment0

Yo musiclovers. I’m about to send out a mass
mailing call to action to those who care about the world. Modern
society is becoming increasingly sociopathic, no conscience about
anything any more, apathy, indifference, and ignorance are the order
of the day. We gotta buck the tide.

March, 2010: Dispatch #55: Sometimes You Gotta Buck The Tide: A Call …Read More

#50: New Sorrows for the Rio Dolores

March 1, 2009 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alertsLeave a comment0

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#50: New Sorrows for the Rio DoloresClick here  for print friendly version – Adobe PDF Version                                                                         

Here is a full version
of the song, Nuclear War by Sun Ra

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