Insightful interview by Afropop with an amazing artist about his new album, sources of inspiration and the decline of Zulu guitar.
All the happiest music comes out of the saddest places…you are humanised in a bigger dehumanising context.
Category Archives: Poetry
Pesticides in Produce: Shoppers Guide
The Environmental Working group has posted their latest list of foods with the highest detected levels of pesticides. They recommend you buy these “dirty dozen” as organic.
- Apples
- Celery
- Strawberries
- Peaches
- Spinach
- Nectarines – imported
- Grapes – imported
- Sweet bell peppers
- Potatoes
- Blueberries – domestic
- Lettuce
- Kale/collard greens
Speaking of details, I could not help but wonder why the image tag and filename for #9 is “Potatoe”
http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/foodnews/img/potatoe.jpg
Poems of war, peace, women, power
TEDWomen, December 2010, with subtitles in 26 languages:
I’m a Climate Scientist
Scientists at the University of New South Wales have been tuning their models to interpret temperature, rainfall and soil condition variables. They want you to know that global warming leads to extreme weather conditions in the South Pacific region:
Denialists deny
This in your dreams
’cause climate change means
Greater extremes,
Shit won’t be the norm
Heatwaves
Bigger badder storms
“The Green house effect
is just a theory, sucker”
Yeah so is gravity
Float away motha’ f**cker