Fenceline

Fenceline is a 3 minute video with sound by EL Putnam The piece explores the separation between nature and greed from the largest fossil fuel industry in North America. Filmed in Weymouth, MA on the North Parcel, the residents have protested the building of a toxic fracked gas compressor station in a densely populated area. Unprecedented.

Breathe In Breath Out

Margaret Bellafiore - Breathe In Breathe Out from MobiusArtistsGroup on Vimeo.

I made this video in response to my concern over the injustice of our state (MA Department of Environmental Protection) and federal (EPA) agencies' failure to enforce the Clean Air Act . Our health is at risk due to these "captured" agencies granting permits to pollute to fossil fuel industry.

"Global" on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston , MA

October 6, 2018
I am posting here some documentation of the piece, "Global," I did on the Rose Kennedy Greenway as part of Mobius/Belfast exchange. I drew animals on the path that are very vulnerable to the effects of increased temperature due to climate disruption.
The irony is that I did a similar piece in 2007 at Mobius. The Union of Concerned Scientists sent two of their staff to the reception. They handed out their study: Confronting Climate Change in the US Northeast. Since 2007, the temperature of the planet has increased! So, nobody listened?

I confront again with images of penguins, salmon, butterflies, moose, caribou, and the symbol of Boston itself, the Atlantic cod. Not overfishing, no, but increased temperature of the Gulf of Maine is killing off the young cod. IT IS TOO HOT for the larval fish to find food that has not been COOKED and killed by heat.  The Atlantic cod is on the way out. Yep.

How will we explain to children of the next generation the fish weathervane on the top of the golden dome State House in Boston? GONE FOR GOOD.

photo credit: R. Cooke

Believe-it-when-you-see-it video

The Weather Channel recently posted this video from last March 2, 2018 "bombogenesis" storm featuring what happened in Scituate, MA a town near me:

https://vimeo.com/281624227

The consequences of climate disruption have arrived. The effects of global warming is on my doorstep. I have been sitting on a bench at Webb Park in north Weymouth drawing the sea and sky every summer for over 30 years. This summer the bench is gone and with it the land it sat on. This point of land was eroded very quickly during the March 2 storm by wind and wave action from Hingham Bay. Erosion was always present before but NOW it is different. The rate of erosion has accelerated. It is hard for me to accept.

EXTREME Weather in New England!

Today the meteorologists are predicting another nor'easter coming on Wednesday around lunch time. Snow levels may be as much as 12 inches. But it is the sound of the howling wind that disturbs me most. This new storm comes after 2 other nor'easters and two BOMBCYCLONES of January 4, 2018 and March 2, 2018. These storms with unfamiliar terminology are different than the previously thought of was the very worst : a "nor'easter." The bombogenesis is actually a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure, at least 24 millibars in a 24 hour period. I have friends who lost power for 4.5 days. No electricity. No heat. No cooking. No internet. I have neighbors who had 2.5 feet of water in their basements. Some lost their cars. My street flooded when huge crashing waves coming over the sea wall during the high tide cycles. The water came up as close as 3 houses away from me. This did not happen even during the Blizzard of '78."

The next town over, had 10 feet of water from storm surges with over 100 evacuations. No one had ever seen water that high before.

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20180303/flooding-uproots-hundreds-in-quincy

My Question: will the climate deniers connect the dots that this is connected to Climate Disruption?

EPA rolls back regulations on toxic effluents

The EPA will now allow toxic effluents into our waters. These can affect the IQ s of children! Do we want the next generation to be dummer?

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-trump-regulatory-rollback-epa

Panel Discussion on Climate now on Youtube

I am glad to be part of this panel on Climate Change and the importance of local involvement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTQGStQIPgE

For inspiration, watch Miramar White-Hammond at 39:39'