Salmon Aid Festival is coming up on May 31st & June 1st
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 12, 2008 at 5:55 amFrom IndyBay.org:
The SalmonAid festival to help address the Salmon crisis will be at Jack London Square May 31 - June 1, details at http://www.salmonaid.org. For some tips on what we can do, check out the action link on salmonaid.org as well as http://www.water4fish.org and http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/18/18493885.php
Salmon are vital to the long-term health of pacific ecosystems, bringing nutrients from the sea, without which the land’s vitality might steadily decline as the rains wash nutrients downstream. In some places, 50% of the nitrogen in coastal trees came from Salmon. More than 137 species depend on Salmon for their survival.
Salmon are miner’s canaries revealing the health of watersheds. Evidence indicates they have been here a million years longer than people, during which time there have been 100-year droughts and multiple ice ages. If they can’t make it now after making it through all that, then there’s something very wrong in our life support system, and we can expect to face trouble ourselves if it’s
not turned around.Salmon are supreme gift-givers, giving their lives to future generations by feeding the whole watershed. They show by example a degree of nobility and wisdom that can inspire us to rise above the self-orientedness that has become so prevalent, and work toward the sustainability of all life, including that beyond our own kind.
Feel free to spread the word.
http://salmonaid.org
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Where can I find an actual line-up and/or schedule for the music at the Salmon Aid Festival?I am a busy mother who would like to make time to bring my kids, but need to know who is playing and when so that I don’t miss who we want to see the most!