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Earth Eclectic 0075: "A Sense of Urgency" amplifies voices demanding immediate ecological action through music that both mourns environmental degradation and galvanizes resistance.

Listen here:
https://eartheclectic.org/2025/0075/

#EcoActivist #EcoSpiritual

A green sun rises above a green lake — photo by Bart Everson

#UK - #GuerillaGardening: how you can make your local area greener without getting into trouble

Published: October 4, 2023

Excerpt: "Can you be prosecuted?

"It’s important to remember that much of the unused or abandoned land that is potentially suitable for guerilla gardening in towns and cities throughout the UK is owned by local councils. Common examples of such locations include broken pavements with missing slabs, wasteland and the central areas of roundabouts.

"Although much of this land is already open for the public to walk over, actively gardening on it would become an act of trespass.

"The law of trespass sounds scary. However, gardening on this land would be a breach of civil law rather than a crime. This means that most guerrilla gardeners are unlikely to receive a fine or a criminal record.

"Landowners do have the legal right to use 'reasonable force' to remove trespassers from their land. But, fortunately, it seems most councils have ignored guerrilla gardeners, having neither the time, money or inclination to bring legal action against them.

"Colchester Council, for example, were unable to track down the identity of the '#HumanShrub', a mysterious #EcoActivist who restored the flowers in the city’s abandoned plant containers in 2009. The shrub returned again in 2015 and sent a gift of seeds to a local councillor.

"In other areas of the UK, the work of guerilla gardeners has been cautiously welcomed by local councils. In Salford, a city in Greater Manchester, there is a formal requirement to submit an application and obtain permission to grow on vacant spots in the city. But the local authority tends not to interfere with illegal grow sites.

"There seems to be an unwritten acceptance that people can garden wherever they want, given the abundance of available space and the lack of active maintenance. This also offers the additional advantage of saving both time and money for the local council.

"You should still be careful about where you trespass though. In some areas, guerrilla gardening can lead to unwelcome attention. During the #MayDayRiots of 2000, for example, guerrilla gardeners were accused of planting #cannabis seeds in central #London’s #ParliamentSquare.

"Gardening at night may draw the wrong attention too, particularly if you are carrying gardening tools that might be misunderstood by the police as threatening weapons."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NHZyu

#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #ReclaimingSpaces #MayDay #GardeningForPollinators #Gardening

May the #forests outlive us all.

#SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activism #ActivistArt #ProtectForests #Canada #BritishColumbia #Cascadia #NatureFirst #Ecological

A painted sign saying: MAY THEY OUTLIVE US - With a tree & 2 red handprints on it.
Placed in old growth forest, amidst ferns & other forest plants.

We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.

#SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activists #monochrome #BCForestryReform #Cascadia #HelpMotherNature #StopKillingForests #Ecocide #SaveOurForests #ClimateINACTION #MonochromeMonday

Slopeside view. Part of another massive clearcut on South Vancouver Island.
Black and white photo.

The message has not changed.

Arrest the real criminals -> #RCMP #CIRG goons - #BCgovernment & greedy corporations/corporate lobbyists.

#AsianMastodon #SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activists #monochrome

Me, standing in front of an RCMP SUV, with my right hand holding my wooden cane up & holding a sign in other hand that says: ARREST THE REAL CRIMINALS

Black and white photo.

#Caturday greetings from Charlie on #EarthDay.

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#SaveThePlanet #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheWorld #GreenLiving #EcoFriendly #SustainableLiving #AnimalLovers #FelineFriends #NatureLovers #ClimateAction #SustainableSolutions #EcoWarrior #CatLover #EcoLife #WildlifeConservation #EarthFriendly #CleanEnergy #GreenEnergy #RenewableEnergy #EcoCommunity #EcoConscious #EcoActivist #SaveTheEarth #ProtectThePlanet #EcoMinded #EcoAwareness #CatsOfVero

Claremont Road - the night before the eviction (1994)

https://visionon.tv/videos/watch/ce85bc5b-f75d-4a0c-b06b-2a6297eb65f0

Dolly Watson - the Queen of Claremont Road (December 1994)

https://visionon.tv/videos/watch/73ecc122-9604-41bb-89bf-a8d2f644d700

"Why I wrote EcoActivist Testament," a >2 minute video. In this video you will see this octogenarian (me) worshiping with nature at our old farmhouse in the western mountains of Maine.

If you are a faith-driven #ecoactivist, I wrote this for you. If you are sometimes on the verge of despair, wondering "why bother!?" I wrote this for you.

https://youtu.be/VSeK0XqdtGc

link to book: https://hpaulsantmire.net/books/ecoactivist-testament/

#ecoactivism #ecojustice #spirituality #rest #LutheransRestoringCreation #lutheran #elca