Here’s a few tunes about peace and our environment:

With gratitude to:

- TG Vanini on violin and vocals

- EC Lorick on guitar and vocals.

- Pete Buettner on saxophone

I am also known for love songs…

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About The True Tale of the Great Swirling Plastic Vortex

and Plastic, Plastic No!

There is a vortex of swirling debris, a soup of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean which is growing at an alarming rate. Just one of these Great Garbage Patches covers an area twice the size of the continental United States.. 

In effect the world's largest rubbish dump – it is held in place by swirling underwater currents, 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.  

Amongst other debris, this vortex contains particles of broken down plastic so tiny they are indistinguishable from the plankton that serve as food for fish in our seas. Our fish are therefore becoming plastic – and so are we.

Water Not Weapons

Someone asked me to write a tune about an expression coined by Pete Seeger, famed musical environmentalist.

Fukushima-Chernobyl

Though commonly thought to have ''only'' caused 4000 deaths, new scientific evidence from doctors and health workers in Russia has determined the number of deaths from cancer from that single disaster, Chernobyl, is  actually 985,000 people planet wide, a fact the captains of industry and governments of the world would prefer we remain unaware of. This number does not include children severely deformed, ill and/or abandoned in orphanages in the Soviet Union.

It takes 24,000 years for plutonium to cease being a health hazard to living beings. Fukushima continues to release radiation into our oceans every day.

*See my link to Dr Helen Caldicott here on the links page

Fleeing Tokyo

 I wrote this song a few weeks after the disaster at Fukushima’s nuclear power plant. Reports kept filtering in that radioactive particles from Japan was appearing in rain, water and milk along the east coast of the United States. 

On a rainy day, I left on a walk with my beloved dog Tallulah (Lucy) but having just listened to the news, reconsidered. Turning around – for the first time in my life – I was afraid of rain.