HOBT and On the Commons Present - A Civic Project - A Sacred Project
- A Communal Health Project
Invigorate the Common Well - Phase 1 - Performances
Bruce
Silcox
What if we come to the Well and the Well is dry?
Questions of
Water Quantity -
Why we need Water
How much Water do we need?
How much of the world’s water is available for consumption?
How much Water do we use?
Why does the USA use so much Water
compared to the rest of the World?
Visible and Invisible uses
of Water
Water’s
connection to other environmental concerns, climate change, agrarian
practices
Is Water a Right or a Privilege?
Who sits at the table
of local and global water deliberation tables?
All beings depend
on water for life, all beings must be represented at the tables
of water deliberations....
Our Common Water,
Our Commons
What we can do
Bruce
Silcox
Where does the Water come from and where does it go?
The cycles
of Water: up and down and back to the ground, around and around
the planet, from the beginning of time to the present moment, from
health to sickness and back to health.
The Minneapolis urban Water Cycle - from
the Mississippi River to our water works, to our home and back to
the River again.
The plastic bottle situation
Public or Private water
Where does the Water come from in the Mississippi River?
Source Water
issues - agrarian, impervious surfaces, toxins in the fields, toxins
in our homes, toxins in our lawns, industrial issues
Our bodies are
part of the Mississippi River Watershed
The headwaters and the dead
zone
What we can do
Episode 3 -
July 26, 2008
Lori
Greene
HOBT concluded Phase One of the Invigorate the Common
Well project with live music, an outdoor street carnival, puppet shows,
and art-making activities, on the final day of the 68th Aquatennial
Festival right here on Lake Street.
MayDay 2007
MayDay 2007 called for a foundation of reverence and gratitude
for Water
Sandy Spieler
The commons of Water.
Explores and celebrates the essentialness
of Water,
the ancientness of Water,
the Public Waterworks,
the bottled Water situation,
the sacredness of Water