A part of my work with the World Wildlife Fund for its Earth Hour event in Los Angeles on March 28, I helped organize a group of young musicians to perform at the event. My guitar teacher, Lonnie ‘Meganut’ Marshall, put together a group of kids who played drums on recycled plastic buckets they’d painted to fit the theme ‘Funeral for Fossil Fuel’.
The Life Drum Core, as Lonnie named the group, was a big hit. They got coverage on all the local TV stations, and on the night of Earth Hour, their four-minute performance was well-received. They ended up afterward jamming with the mayor, who grabbed his own recycled bucket and began banging out a beat. (He wasn’t bad.) (more…)
As the toxic cloud of the Bush-Cheney era in America begins to lift, we are beginning to see the scope of the mess they’ve left us in. The boys from Delta House have been partying hard for eight years, and now we’re supposed to move in and live here like nothing has happened? The party is over the the place is a disaster. The trees are filled with underwear! The toilets have exploded! And nobody’s laughing, because it’s real, and it’s on us to clean it up.
Some of the clean-up work is so vast in scope, the banking industry shitstorm that shows so sign of abating , for example, or our crippling dependence on fossil fuels, that nothing short of a federal government strategy can begin to dig us out of it.
Every one of us, however, can find ways to support the clean-up work on a personal and practical level. Cleaning house presents us with opportunities. A chance to evaluate inventory, and eliminate waste. It can be the impetus for a much-needed remodeling.
Here’s a GameChangers checklist for what to Toss and what to Keep as we clean up and remodel an economy that has been Skulled and Boned into the pathetic shape it’s in today: (more…)
Video clips from GameChangers workshops at Twelve Horses Interactive and an Executive MBA Class at Notre Dame. The Twelve Horses engagements typically have from 8 to 10 people participating. The MBA class had 65 people in it.
