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Bonnie Raitt on activism, making men cry and 38 years of sobriety

May 1, 2025 by sergneri Leave a Comment

‘Do something with your actions. Don’t just write a cheque’: Bonnie Raitt An interview with Bonnie Raitt, May 1, 2025, The Guardian. Which artists inspire you today? onemoreseason If you like Little Feat, great soul singing and great slide, really knocking my socks off lately is the Bros Landreth out of Winnipeg, Canada – a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Content, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Modern Music, Pandemic Tagged: Allen Shamblin, Angel from Montgomery, BB King, Bros Landreth, Bukka White, Courtney Barnett, Fred McDowell, Jason Isbell, Joey Landreth, John Lee Hooker, John Prine, John Raitt], Little Feat, Lola Young, Lowell George, Maia Sharp, Mike Reid, Oliver Mtukudzi, Olivia Rodrigo, the Grammys

Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

January 13, 2024 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Place holder for The Guardian article “Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists”   “We’ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,” says Joseph Merz, lead author of a new paper which proposes that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which in turn is caused by the deliberate … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: behavioural, carbon emissions, climate breakdown, climate change, consuming, consumption, crisis, geoengineered, large families, neuropsychology, norms, Population, renewable energy, social signalling, waste

The deepest map : the high-stakes race to chart the world’s oceans by Laura Tretheway

December 10, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Tretheway, like Elizabeth Rush, is a very good nature writer. I had some experience working on mapping vessels back in my youth and it was very interesting to “go back out” albeit in my arm chair with much newer vessels and equipment. She builds up the background of ocean mapping, how little we really know, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: bathymetric, bathymetric mapping, Deep Sea Mining, economic zones, GIS, International Seabed Authority, ISA, Laura Tretheway, oceanography, Seabed 2030, sonar

Elizabeth Rush – “The Quickening”

December 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

October 23, 2023 I just read Elizabeth Rush’s new book “The Quickening” in which she reports on a research cruise to Thwaites Glacier in 2018/19. Seems the first time the thinning sea ice would let ships get anywhere close was in 2017-2020 so there was some very good data gathered in those years. We are … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Content, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: Amundsen Sea, Antarctic, climate disasters, Elizabeth Rush, Nathaniel B. Palmer, sea ice, sea level rise, ship board narrative, The Quickening, Thwaites Glacier

“The Blue Machine – How the Ocean Works” by Helen Czerski

December 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Nov 22, 2023 Just finished “The Blue Machine – How the Ocean Works” by Helen Czerski. As you can guess, it is a non-fiction title, another scientist commenting on a topic dear to her and meaningful for most of us, a genre I’m finding attractive in my old age She’s a physicist whose work on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, What I Read Tagged: density, emperature, global ocean PH, global temperature of the ocean, global weather, Helen Czerski, non-fiction, ocean currents, oceanography, pollution, salinity, The Blue Machine - How the Ocean Works, The Ocean

Loosed upon the world : the Saga anthology of climate fiction edited by John Joseph Adams.

December 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Comment on the genre of “climate fiction,” which now, in late 2023 is pretty well defined, this entry suggests it has been around for centuries but gained momentum around 2010. Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) The Wikipedia entry for Climate Fiction contains this: “Technologies such as climate engineering or climate adaptation practices often feature prominently in works … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Future of Work, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Obituaries, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, Uncategorized, What I Read Tagged: Alan Dean Foster, Angela Penrose, apocalypse, Cat Sparks, Charlie Jane Anders, Chen Qiufan, Chris Bachelder, CLI-FI, climate, climate engineering, Climate Fiction, Craig DeLancey, fiction, Gregory Benford, Jason Gurley, Jean-Louis Trudel, Jim Shepard, Karl Schroeder, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kristen Finley, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Nancy Kress, Nicole Feldringer, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ramez Naam, Robert Silverberg, Sarah K. Castle, Sean McMullen, Seanan McGuire, the future, Tobias Buckell, Tobias S. Buckell, Vandana Singh

Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus

October 29, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A review of a Fluxus retrospective from the New York Times. Through Jan. 21 at Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Manhattan https://www.japansociety.org/arts-and-culture/exhibitions/kazuko-miyamoto  

Posted in: Arts, Content, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, History, Modern Music, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Ayaka Iida, Conceptual art, Cut Piece, Experimental music, George Maciunas, improvisation, John Cage, Midori Yoshimoto, Mieko Shiomi, Minimalism, Nam June Paik, performance, Shigeko Kubota, Takako Saito, Tiffany Lambert, Vagina Painting, video, Yasunao Tone, Yoko Ono

Tribute to the late Rose Gaffney of Bodega Bay – June 1974

October 4, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Eulogy for Rose (Editor’s Note: Ina Draper DeFoe, Columbia poetess, wrote this tribute to the late Rose Gaffney of Bodega Bay, a unique citizen of the Redwood Empire. It is edited for today’s Medley.) Our family knew Rose Gaffney back before there was anything to threaten her ownership of Bodega Head. One weekend my youngest … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, History, Obituaries, Politics, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: "The Birds", Alfred Hitchcock, arrowheads, atomic plant, Bodega Head, California coastline, collections, Hollywood, INA DRAPER DE FOE, Indian basket, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Rose Gaffney, San Andreas earthquake fault, Smithsonian Institution

Rose Abramoff was one of two protesters who helped temporarily shut down construction of Mountain Valley pipeline

September 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I wanted to get her name into Commonplaces, she is very brave! US climate scientist risks felony by chaining herself to pipeline drill Rose Abramoff was one of two protesters who helped temporarily shut down construction of Mountain Valley pipeline According to Scientist Rebellion, a coalition of scientists who are actively protesting against climate change, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: fossil fuel, Mountain Valley pipeline, Rose Abramoff, Scientist Rebellion, Senator Joe Manchin, The Guardian

Isabel Crook, 107, Dies; Her Life in China Spanned a Century of Change

August 25, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Isabel Crook, 107, Dies; Her Life in China Spanned a Century of Change A noted educator and anthropologist, she spent almost her entire life in China, where she was a committed friend of the Communist government. NY Times 08/24/23 Isabel Crook, a China-born daughter of Canadian missionaries who became one of her adopted country’s most … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Feminism, History, Obituaries Tagged: advocate, anthropologist articulate, Beijing, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, Chinese Communist Party, Communist, Communist state, David Crook, Isabel Crook, Sichuan Province
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