Ballad of Thoreau
Earth Day on Walden Pond
Earth Day Network is joining with
playwright Michael Johnathon in
exploring the vital role we each
play in protecting the Earth by
living more simply and preserving
natural environments in our home
communities. Walden: The Ballad
of Thoreau will stream online via
EarthDayTV.net and be
broadcast over public TV and radio and in theaters on
Earth Day, April 22. To date, 7,200 schools and community
theatres have performed the play in 35 countries, bringing
to life the lessons of Henry David Thoreau, father of the
environmental movement in America.
Thoreau’s records of Walden’s plant species from 1851
to 1858 provide a baseline for today’s naturalists. They re-
port that 27 percent of this Concord, Massachusetts pond’s
flowers have vanished. Another 36 percent are on the
brink. Boston University scientists report that the average
annual temperature there is now 4.3 degrees higher, due in
part to surrounding asphalt and buildings, causing species
that can’t adapt to earlier bloom times to die out because
spring pollinators are arriving earlier, as well. Climate
change is throwing off the synchronicity of nature.
Evolutionary biologist Charles Davis notes that “Major
branches in the tree of life are being lost, groups that we
all know and love: dogwoods, orchids and members of the
Gender Bender
lily and rose families.”
Pollutants Cause Global Feminization
For more information visit
WaldenPlay.com.
A report based on 250 scientific studies around the world
has concluded that male fish, amphib-
ians, reptiles, birds and mammals—
Change Your Fuel,
including humans—are being
Change the World
feminized by environmental
FUEL is a much needed documentary
pollution. Common culprits
about America’s addiction to oil and
include phthalates used in
an uplifting testament to the immedi-
plastic food wraps, cosmet-
acy of new energy solutions. Director,
ics and other products; flame
Josh Tickell, a young activist, guides
retardants; and many pesticides.
us on a whirlwind journey to track the
The new report was released by
rising domination of the petrochemi-
CHEMTrust, a British organization that
cal industry — from Rockefeller’s
advocates for protection of humans and
strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars
wildlife from harmful chemicals.
to Vice President Cheney’s petro-
The report follows a U.S. study that
chemical company sponsored energy
shows baby boys born to women exposed
legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions
to such chemicals while pregnant have smaller penises and
to “repower America” — from vertical farms that occupy
feminized genitals. A British newspaper, The Independent,
skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into
also notes that women in communities heavily polluted
fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists,
with such chemicals in Canada, Russia and Italy have been
policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through
giving birth to twice as many girls as boys, perhaps helping
America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and
to explain a shift in sex ratios worldwide. At the same time,
illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentral-
studies in more than 20 countries show that men’s sperm
ized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative.
counts have dropped, from 150 million per milliliter of
sperm fluid to 60 million over the past 50 years. FUEL is opening at the Camelview 5 Cinema in Scottsdale
Source:
DrWeil.com
on April 10.
www.thefuelfilm.com
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