{"id":13875,"date":"2022-04-24T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2022-04-24T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:52:17","slug":"earth-day-2022-in-tulsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13875","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2022 in Tulsa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past Saturday I drove to Tulsa&#8217;s Arts District, just north of downtown, to help work an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/okrootsmusic.org\/event\/earth-day-celebration\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/okrootsmusic.org\/event\/earth-day-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Day<\/a> booth for the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tulsaurbanwildernesscoalition.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tulsaurbanwildernesscoalition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition<\/a>. It had been a long time since I had been to such an event. They used to have them on the main mall during the work week when I was still working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/52025270663\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as I got there a fashion show featuring recycled materials was underway. That was interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2ngi4Br\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52025261163_e9e832a37b_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was pretty windy. Kind of a full skirt alert thing going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/52025254758\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They had some musical performances. Some guys drumming and then later on some sort of hippie, country, poppy group who were not bad at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2ngkwTy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52025743150_c395d0618e_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Chinese Wisteria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wandering around the other booths I came up on the table for the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carriedickersonfoundation.org\/index.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.carriedickersonfoundation.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Carrie Dickerson Foundation<\/a>.  Carrie Dickerson was a determined lady who led a coalition of people that forced the Public Service Company of Oklahoma to abandon the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant?msclkid=8b9f14c9c41411eca54f65f23c8e2bd5\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant?msclkid=8b9f14c9c41411eca54f65f23c8e2bd5\" target=\"_blank\">Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant project<\/a> in 1982 after a nine year battle. Construction on the plant had already started and when it was cancelled, it was the only nuclear power plant to be cancelled as a result of legal and citizen action. As much as I am proud to be a member of an organization that forced an outlet mall to abandon their plans for a mall on Turkey Mountain, I&#8217;m in awe of the people who forced Black Fox to be shut down. People don&#8217;t remember it much any longer but Oklahoma has populists roots that are still there beneath the surface. RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrie_Barefoot_Dickerson?msclkid=ef331560c41411ec8eb32ce441f90d09\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrie_Barefoot_Dickerson?msclkid=ef331560c41411ec8eb32ce441f90d09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carrie Barefoot Dickerson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2ngi48A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52025259548_c411c9e018.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll climb off my soap box long enough to show you a monarch butterfly who I saw flitting around the earth day events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2ngcwi3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52024180252_d06945337b_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"540\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then later on a bunch of young women in their prom dresses with their beaus, parents, and photographers came for the photo ops available at Guthrie Green. I thought it was kind of cool. I have great hopes for our young people. They are going to inherit the world. Personally, I think they are up to the task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday I drove to Tulsa&#8217;s Arts District, just north of downtown, to help work an Earth Day booth for the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition. It had been a long time since I had been to such an event. They used to have them on the main mall during the work week when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[3172,3171,2264,1088,1235],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-day","tag-black-fox-nuclear-power-plant","tag-carrie-dickerson","tag-conservation","tag-earth-day","tag-tulsa-urban-wilderness-coalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13876,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}