GREEN DEETS 017: Ben Harper in Conversation with Graham Hill Part 2 -- VIDEO
by George Spyros, New York City, USA on 04.22.08
Enviro Causes, Obama and the Nobility of Finding Solutions
Ben Harper:
There's no nobility in glorifying the problem. The nobility is in finding the solution.
Video running time 3.5 minutes
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:: GREEN DEETS ::
:: Ben's Eco-Hero: Chad Pregracke of Living Lands & Waters
:: Living Lands & Waters:
Has collected over 250 tons or nine barge loads of garbage from the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Anacostia, Potomac, Illinois and Rock Rivers.
Its Adopt-a-River Mile consists of 83 groups covering 164.1 total miles.
The Harpers Ferry River Friends group collected 42,000 pounds of trash during their first cleanup in 2004.
For the ten years, Living Lands & Waters focused its efforts on cleaning up garbage littering America’s big rivers. In 2003 LL&W launched the next two phases of its project, The MillionTrees Project, restoring our rivers to a more natural state by planting trees and removing invasive plants, and educating the public on the need to preserve and protect these natural resources.
LL&W Riverbottom Forest Restoration Project was created in 2003 as yet another way for Living Lands & Waters to improve our Nation’s Big Rivers. Over the years, a decline in riverbottom hardwoods became recognizable. The bottomland forest ecosystem is lacking the diversity of nut and fruit baring trees. Seed from native hardwoods, such as oaks and hickories, is important to provide food and habitat for wildlife. Natives also tend to be more tolerable to flood and drought. Living Lands & Waters recognized the importance of replenishing bottomlands with native hardwoods.
:: Chad Pregracke's 2007 book is From the Bottom Up: One Man’s Crusade to Clean America’s Rivers the story of the creation and evolution of LL&W, its successes and challenges.
:: TreeHugger on LL&W here.
:: SONG IN THIS VIDEO ::
Fight Outta You from the Album LIFELINE by Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
WATCH>> "The Rivers' Garbage Man" on CBS News Video, Chad Pregrake and Living Lands & Waters
WATCH PART 1 >> GREEN DEETS 016: Ben Harper -- Pearl Street Triangle Re-imagined
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Great job guys!
great video and if anyone knows the name of the song let me know
:: AUTHOR RESPONSE ::
Duh on my part, thanks for the reminder!
I've updated the post, cheers.
Great video. Reminds us what we are here for. Hope that people get the message and DO something worthwhile while they are here on Earth.
Just FYI- The song that's playing is "Fight Outta You" off the Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals album, "Lifeline". Great album.
ugh why did you tell them the name of the song they are probably just gonna go and illegally download it ripping off the great one aka ben harper. how could you do that
confused guy: You’re probably running into issues with the upgraded codebase of Word Press 2.1. They made some fairly significant changes to things and 2.1 will break many themes and plugins. They also haven’t updated their documentation to reflect the new codebase so it’s not possible to always know HOW to fix a broken theme/plugin yet. Before this PHP5 upgrade thing came up I was advising my users to not upgrade to 2.1 yet, but to wait until at least 2.1.1 or so.
So basically, upgrade to 2.1 and experience problems or don’t upgrade and experience problems from the PHP 5.2 upgrade. It’s safe to say we have the electronic equivalent of being between a rock and a hard place here.
You didn’t say what problems you were having specifically, if you do I might be able to point you in the right direction, I’ve already dealt with a few and been able to resolve them. There’s others I haven’t been able to fix yet due to lack of documentation. (Basically I know the problems is changes to a function or a new function has replaced an old one but the new version isn’t documented so I can’t find out HOW to call it properly. This is a failure on the WP people’s side to document the upgrade. Yes I know it’s free, I’m not really complaining, it’s just very frustrating with Dreamhost basically forcing us to upgrade now.)