Nature Sounds: Singer-Songwriter Valerie June on Listening to Nature’s Music
ByJacqueline Cutler
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Valerie June, who tops her glorious mass of hair with crowns of flowers, knows the joy of dancing barefoot under the moon.
A twang from June’s home state of Tennessee accents her music, which is an eclectic mélange of blues, folk, jazz, soul, and gospel. Her country upbringing formed someone happy strumming her acoustic guitar, singing about nature.
June recorded “Home Inside” for National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021 concert on a covered bridge in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. It’s the perfect reminder that nature can be found in the most urban settings. On a sunny spring morning, speaking from Brooklyn, June shared her feelings in this edited conversation.
Nature Sounds: DJ, music producer, and scientist Jayda G infuses environmentalism into house music
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Even in a world of hyphenates, Jayda G is a rarity of mash-ups. By moving to her own beat, she encourages anyone within listening range to move to theirs.
Jayda G, an in-demand DJ, also happens to be a biologist with a specialty in environmental toxicology. Merging her two lifelong passions, Jayda G was thrilled to DJ a global dance party on TikTok Live, following National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021 virtual celebration. The event featured musicians, including Willie Nelson and Yo-Yo Ma, performing in exquisite natural settings worldwide. National Geographic Explorers Dr. Jane Goodall and Brian Skerry, among others, spoke about the need to protect our planet.
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22 Apr 2021
Radical Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) relaunched the Green New Deal on Earth Day Eve by suggesting climate change is caused by racial injustice.
“The climate crisis is a crisis born of injustice, and it is a crisis born of the pursuit of profit at any and all human and ecological cost,” she claimed.
“Which means that we must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change, that the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change,” she doubled down.
The member of Congress turned Twitter star connected the dots of her conviction. “Because we are allowing people … to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to health care, the right to housing and education,” she alleged.