The Paris climate talks have been hailed as anything from a triumphant success to a dismal failure. My personal favorite comment was Bill McKibbons’—“Paris didn’t save the planet, but it may perhaps have saved the chance of saving the Planet”-

I come before you today humbly, to ask your forgiveness

You see, my people are lost

April Thanhauser interviews Ken Wentworth and Liz Witham about their experience at the Paris Climate Summit and their film projects for Greening Eden, in which they explore "humanity's relationship with the ecosystem." AT—I gathered from your films from the Climate Summit, that you thought the real hope for addressing climate change was coming from the Peoples' Movements, rather than from the UN delegates.

By Zoe Lemos Hi -This is Zoe( I am 12 years old). This is a song I wrote last year. I am in the process of recording it with my band Felixis Jinx and making a music video,

With this newsletter, we close our focus on Air and Climate Change, with dedication and commitment to do all we can to bring balance to the great breath of our Earth Mother. Through looking at the issues involved in Climate Change, we come to understand, more and more, the interrelatedness of all things and the implications of all our actions. We offer gratitude for clear, wild, refreshing Air, the green beings who give us breath and all those spirit forces who join together to sustain Life.

Focusing on the temperature increase or reducing greenhouse gases is only a small part of the issue.  It is the allopathic approach to environmental health.  Let’s suppress or eliminate what appears to be the greatest symptom and ignore everything else.  We need a holistic approach, one that recognizes that the symptoms of polluted water, polluted air, deforestation, farmer suicides, even increase in autoimmune diseases, depression, poverty, and malnutrition are all connected.  They are all symptoms of the same underlying cause: separation of humans from Nature and the destruction of our Home.

As I said earlier, it is time for a paradigm shift.  It is time for us to re-member that we are Nature.

In 2010 I joined 11 other artists in the Boston area. We called ourselves “The Time Project” and would meet monthly to show each other our creations, give each other critiques, and provide support for the experimental art that we had all chosen to undertake.

My subject was the state of our environment with a special emphasis on Climate Change which was particularly compelling because it is so multi- layered. I decided to accompany each piece with a written story in an attempt to inform the viewer about the many dangerous aspects of this complicated story, while at the same time, luring them into a safe place through the aesthetic interest found within each piece.

Hey great and many spirits it is I your daughter (son), [insert your name], who comes to you with much gratitude and appreciation for the many gifts and the vital life you have bestowed upon me.

t's 3:23 in the morning and I'm awake because my great great grandchildren won't let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the planet was plundered? what did you do when the earth was unraveling?