The Sleeping Sea

VIDEO: The Sleeping Sea - It Thinks...

2010-06-10T10:36:00.000-07:00

ENJOI:

The Sleeping Sea - It Thinks... from thesleepingsea on Vimeo.

Alligator Pear Lesson

2010-05-25T19:49:00.001-07:00

FAIR TRADE

2010-05-10T10:03:00.001-07:00

2010-04-24T08:53:00.000-07:00

Sustainable agriculture takes many forms, but at its core is a rejection of the industrial approach to food production developed during the 20th century.

This system, with its reliance on monoculture, mechanization, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, biotechnology, and government subsidies, has made food abundant and affordable. However, the ecological and social price has been steep: erosion; depleted and contaminated soil and water resources; loss of biodiversity; deforestation; labor abuses; and the decline of the family farm.

The concept of sustainable agriculture embraces a wide range of techniques, including organic, free-range, low-input, holistic, and biodynamic.

The common thread among these methods is an embrace of farming practices that mimic natural ecological processes. Farmers minimize tilling and water use; encourage healthy soil by planting fields with different crops year after year and integrating croplands with livestock grazing; and avoid pesticide use by nurturing the presence of organisms that control crop-destroying pests.

Beyond growing food, the philosophy of sustainability also espouses broader principles that support the just treatment of farm workers and food pricing that provides the farmer with a livable income.

Critics of sustainable agriculture claim, among other things, that its methods result in lower crop yields and higher land use. They add that a wholesale commitment to its practices will mean inevitable food shortages for a world population expected to exceed 8 billion by the year 2030. There's recent evidence, though, suggesting that over time, sustainably farmed lands can be as productive as conventional industrial farms.

(national geographic)

Moving Colours In Snowy Storm

2010-02-16T18:55:00.000-08:00

New video. A drone for ears and eyes:

The Sleeping Sea - Moving Colours In Snowy Storm from sleeping sea on Vimeo.

Palms

2010-02-16T10:11:00.000-08:00

live recording of palms at Rohs Street Cafe via courtesy of luke cole:

Bad Panda!

2010-02-08T15:41:00.000-08:00

Bad Panda did a little special on us today :)

enn joo ee

Wicked Witches (video)

2010-02-04T13:53:00.000-08:00

Curtesy of luke alllen cole:

Electronic Waste: Out of Site, Out of mind?

2010-02-02T15:44:00.000-08:00

Toxic effects of consumption: What becomes of our rapid rate of obsolescence?

Read Article

Something Interesting: Sustainable Prisons Project

2010-02-02T15:11:00.000-08:00

Read Article

Sustainable Prisons Project website

HAITI DISASTER

2010-01-14T17:21:00.000-08:00

Victims have spent their second day amongst the battered landscape, with legions of people confirmed dead and thousands more feared trapped under rubble.

The Red Cross in Haiti fears up to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's earthquake, but Haitian officials say it could be twice that.

If you're looking to give money to help these relief activities, we've compiled a list of some of the larger, established international aid organizations responding to the disaster:

American Jewish World Service
AmeriCares
CARE
Catholic Relief Services
Direct Relief International
Doctors Without Borders
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Rescue Committee
Mercy Corps
Oxfam
Partners in Health
The Salvation Army
Save the Children
UNICEF
World Food Programme

Beautiful Photojournalism battles Social Injustice

2010-01-07T18:09:00.000-08:00

James Nachtwey

Fair Trade - South Africa: citrus fruit

2009-12-28T12:40:00.000-08:00

How your choices of consumption directly affect quality of life of workers all around the Earth :)

The Price of Sugar

2009-12-16T15:23:00.000-08:00

This devastating film about the deplorable, oppressive conditions of immigrant Haitian sugar cane workers in the Dominican Republic will make you think twice before sweetening your coffee. Paul Newman narrates the film directed by Bill Haney.

The End of Poverty

2009-12-15T15:55:00.000-08:00

The End of Poverty:

A film dedicated to getting at the sources of poverty.
learn more, get involved : ENDPOVERTY

Monocular Peoples E.P.

2009-12-13T21:26:00.001-08:00

A long-ago record: our older cocoon of sounds- re-released for your ears
click to download

2009-12-11T14:26:00.000-08:00

I wanted to share some of the issues that I've been working on recently and I figured with that you can't find a much more compassionate group than here...

Slave Trade/ The results of unconscious consumerism...

Please visit this website to write letters to companies that outsource and exploit thier employees: http://chainstorereaction.com/

Also a guide to ending sweatshops:
http://www.greenamericatoday.org/programs/sweatshops/sweatfreeproducts.cfm

STORY OF STUFF - neat story of the effect of materialistic society -(hand & hand with sweatshops, environmental exploitation.)

Fair Trade (short film):

I have more however I won't overwhelm you all...

what does your mind think of all this?

Midpoint Music Festival: Segway Room

2009-09-16T08:17:00.000-07:00

Next week we're playing @ the segway room! - 8pm

Sept. 24th 2009

The Segway Room
8:00 - The Sleeping Sea
9:00 - The Daredevil Christopher Wright
10:00 - Culture Queer
11:00 - Lightning Love

Here's what Citybeat said in their latest issue:

"
This engaging trio concocts its truly unique sound by subtly embedding elements of Folk, World and Tropical music into its strangely melodic mix. The Sleeping Sea would appeal to so-called ‚Freak Folk, fans, but they truly sound like nothing you've ever heard before. Trippy, sometimes creepy and always haunting, this is one Sea you won't mind being lost at.
Dig: Fleet Foxes with broader influences, Animal Collective's twisted sense of Pop music. "

Ghost In the Piano Room

2009-09-02T08:31:00.001-07:00

Here's the release that everyone's been
voice boxing over...

abakar paused

Enjoydivision!

2009-08-25T19:37:00.000-07:00

collage workings of summertime
basement-sounds with friends:

TRESE

New album under side alias G.I.T.P.R.

2009-08-24T20:05:00.000-07:00

Abakar Paused is on the threshold of being released.

As you may have downloaded the single from the album;
Piano In The Ghost Room...

in the ghost time take a listen to this:
Ghost In The Piano Room

Construction paper rainforests

2009-08-24T08:21:00.000-07:00

A recent fan of ours has started his own blog for underplayed musicians, he has recently reviewed our music

Click me to read the review

Piano In the Ghost Room

2009-07-17T19:12:00.000-07:00

Piano In the Ghost Room - Ghost In the Piano Room

Video from CAC

2009-03-16T07:59:00.000-07:00

a clip from when we played at the contemporary arts center:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfe5JFWUrjQ

spread the word on facespace

2009-03-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54794135185&ref=mf

Show April 5th

2009-03-15T11:33:00.000-07:00

Just created this blog space to hopefully keep you updated. Adding more soon, Enjoy!