YOUR WEEK STARTS HERE #4 | Earth Day Edition
Welcome back to the fourth edition of Your Week Starts Here!
As it was was Earth Day last week, a fact that admittedly slipped our attention due to an information-action-corona overload, we were inspired to produce an Earth Day edition.
There were some ground breaking movies, articles and environment related art that came to the floor last week, that deserves dissecting, appreciating and understanding.
With so much attention on the Coronavirus right now, the original civilisation disrupter is getting usurped - in consideration, not actuality - by the new viral upstart.
So, let’s correct that and get stuck in to our Earth Day Edition:
1) PLANET OF THE HUMANS
If there was a solution to Climate change, one automatically thinks “Renewable Energies“, right?
Think again.
Planet of the humans is an eco-documentary which explores climate change, the green energy movement and a narrative that has been deceiving us for years.
In this documentary released free on YouTube, executive producer, and award-winning film maker Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs expose the un-renewable nature of “renewable energies”, the ideology at the heart of the green energy movement and the Inconvenient Truth about Al Gore.
Warning: Give yourself at least 24 hours recovery time after veiwing.
2) RELOCATING INDONESIA’S CAPITAL TO KALIMANTAN
The notion that the Indonesian government is planning to relocate a whole capital city is going to be a momentous happening,
This BBC Mini-Documentary The Capital City Sinking Into The Sea, investigates the the effect of the move and the consequences towards remaining forests and the effect on the indigenous culture.
BBC Documentary On Relocating Indonesia’s Capital To Kalimantan
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Borneo, Kalimantan
3) INDONESIA’S FOREST FIRES CANT BE EXTINGUISHED VIA ZOOM
“Covid-19 is not the only threat to our respiratory system spreading uncontrollably right now.”
After the devastating events of Australia and Thailand, yet another forest fire has started scorching Sumatra and Kalimantan.
A recent Harvard study has even found links between the long term effect of the forest fire and COVID-19 death rates.
Though, the disastrous impacts of these fires will not only significantly compound the effects on our on our respiratory systems in relation to Covid-19.
Once we finally leave our homes again, the Lungs of the Earth will be one step closer to suffocating our species entirely.
4) Kaja Kelod - The Balinese Understanding Of True North
The 3rd instalment of NOW! Bali’s Podcast speaks to our spiritual compass. Our “True North.”
North, or Kaja, is towards the mountain, Mount Agung to be exact. It is the direction towards the spiritual, where the Balinese orient themselves towards.
This orientation is found throughout Balinese structures and is all about orienting oneself with the universe.
Check out their 12 min podcast:
5) PETER CAT RECORDING CO.
Peter Cat Recording Co. is an indie/jazz band based from New Dehli that released A Portrait of Time in 2018.
It’s probably the best song you’ve never heard from the best band you’ve never heard.
Guaranteed to take you from foot-tapping to full-on waltzing on your quarantine dance floor!
6) Garden of Eve - ART AUCTION
Last week on our Genesis Live, we gathered two amazing artists: Nova Hissy (@nhillustrations) and Linkan (@Candylckr) for a real-time live stream painting session.
The two talented ladies collaborated on a beautiful and ethereal two-sided painting themed ‘Garden Of Eden.’
This piece is now on Auction. 50% of the money raised will be donated to @tresnabalicookingschool, who have been champions in helping feed underprivileged local families in Bali.
Bidding ends 8th May.
So don’t miss out on your chance to bring home an exquisite masterpiece while also contributing to a great cause!
7) FIGHTMASTER YOGA
“Did you know that we store a lot of emotions in our hips? The issue is in the tissue.“
Yes, you did read that correctly. It turns out that we can store emotions in our hips!
Feeling a little down in the dumps: it could be all the frustration and stress that has accumulated in your body.
In this video Fightmaster Yoga guides us with some soothing and calming 30-minute ‘fluid-flow’ total body workout yoga that will stretch the tissues that store your emotions - after all, hips don’t lie.
OPEN UP THOSE HIPS AND LET THOSE EMOTIONS OUT!
Glowing Yoga Body Workout For Hips (Where You Stuff Your EMOTIONS!)
8) The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Even within the opening 39 pages of his introductory chapter, Cascades, the reader of Wallace-Well’s The Uninhabitable Earth knows they have strapped themselves into an unputdownable account of climate catastrophe.
Even if you think you know - and care - about the destruction of the environment, there is a new level of understanding jumping from every page.
If there is going to be one book you read in this time of quarantine, environmental or otherwise, make it this.
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9) CLUB CONSCIOUS LIVE STREAM WITH PATRICK SEARLE OF GET-CRAFT
Watch our last Genesis Live with our host - and resident DJ - Halim Ardie interviewing Patrick Searle of GetCraft as he talks about artists getting paid during COVID-19.
10) JAKARTA FROM ABOVE
And finally, even the city that perpetually suffocates in smog has found a breathe of fresh air thanks to humans just doing nothing.
Perhaps doing less, making less and creating less - in a way - is the best thing we can do for our earth.
Perhaps - we need to be even more creative in the ways we create in order to make Earth Day the bastion of real change, rather than a remembrance day.
A day where we savour the memory of pre-destabilisation and “the days we used to have trees.”
We trust that should be enough of an emotional rollercoaster to go through for one week!
But sometimes, too much positivity can be nauseatingly inappropriate and counterproductive to being real with the situation.
Indeed, compared to environmental degradation, Covid-19 is just a sniffle.
Remember, Climate Change is the real killer of humanity, and using this moment of stillness to rectify, rather than “go back to normal“, is the most important thing we will ever do.
Otherwise, it will be the last thing we ever do.
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Perhaps a piece of Art, Recording or Project you have been working on?
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