Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP.

https://chickenofthesea.com/company/sustainability 
CORPORATE LIES: "Sustainability:
At Chicken of the Sea, we pride ourselves on our long-standing commitment to operating a socially and environmentally responsible business. We realize that our sustainability obligations don't end when the seafood is caught, but extend all the way through the processing, packaging, and delivery of sustainable seafood to our customers."

Fact: We Have Eaten Tuna Packages in Metal Cans for Decades... and That Metal Can Be Recycled... Melted and Used Again. This new Marketing Strategy Will Create Millions of Plastic Bowls... and WHY? 

A whopping 91% of plastic isn't recycled

Billions of tons of plastic have been made over the past decades, and much of it is becoming trash and litter, finds the first analysis of the issue.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/#close

Boycott Plastic Packaging of Tuna by Chicken of the Sea Infusions SUCK

I emailed them at:

https://chickenofthesea.com/company/contact-us

and I said: 

"Infusions create millions of Plastic Bowls and Forks to pollute the environment for 10,000 years. ENDANGERING FISH with Plastic Garbage floating in the Ocean... Killing YOUR TUNA! Sell Tuna in Metal Cans Like You have for a Decades. I eat a Lot of Tuna and will NOT BUY ANY FROM YOU ANYMORE. Infusions SUCK! "

and they wrote back: Dear Gregory,

Thank you for providing your feedback regarding our new Chicken of the Sea Infusions.

Careful consideration will be given to your observations regarding our packaging. Your comments have been noted and reported to our Quality Assurance Department for their follow up. In addition, the material in the cups and fork is recyclable, recycle #5.

We value you as a customer and appreciate you taking the time to contact us regarding our Chicken of the Sea Light Tuna. We hope we can count on your continued loyalty and in appreciation, please accept the complimentary coupon we are mailing to you.

Sincerely,
Wendy Stanford
Customer Care Representative

GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL:
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/queen-adam-lambert-global-health/

How Queen and Adam Lambert Are Taking Action for Global Health and Well-Being.

I saw Adam Being interviewed on the Ari Melber TV News Show Talking about Reducing Plastic... replacing Plastic Straws with Paper Straws... WELL, BOYCOTT THESE Freaking PLASTIC BOWLS OF TUNA! and the Freaking Foldable Plastic FORKS!

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Small tuna cans are made out of aluminum, and also recycle easily. The actual composition of the metal varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. Before you collect tuna cans to take to the recycling center, place a small magnet on the can. If the magnet sticks, it is not aluminum but steel. If the can is steel, it should be placed into your steel can recycling bin if available.
https://sciencing.com/list-recyclable-aluminum-cans-8441456.html

The U.S. recycling rate for aluminum cans declined to 49.4 percent in 2016, its lowest level in years. The consumer recycling rate for aluminum cans was down from 54.5 percent a year earlier. 
https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2017/11/14/aluminum-can-recycling-falls-significantly/

Tropical Fish in a Fantasy Garden - Original Potatoshop Art by gvan42 - Ecology

and now for something completely different... 

Skolstrejk för klimatetat #ClimateStrike - Protest Online Using "digital strikes" Instead of Mass Rallies in the Streets - Take Worldwide ECO-ACTION! - Greta Thunberg says: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”

Greta Thunberg calls for digital strikes amid coronavirus fears. She has urged fellow climate campaigners to avoid mass protests and listen to local authorities.
https://www.dw.com/en/greta-thunberg-calls-for-digital-strikes-amid-coronavirus-fears/a-52732530

"Make America Greta Again" - Climate Change is Real and Caused By Human Behavior... Here are Some Simple Things We Can Do To Help Prevent Disaster.

Drive Cars Less. WAY Less... The Next Time You Change Jobs, Select a Location NEAR HOME to Reduce Time and Money Wasted Commuting to Work... I was Lucky Enough to Be Able to Ride the Bus to Work in Both Eureka and San Jose, California... It was a LOT of Fun Chatting with the Other Bus Riders... Especially the Beautiful Women... You Can't Do THAT is a Car... 

Stop Flying in Jet Airplanes. Is There REALLY a Need to FLY? Where are You Going that Couldn't Be Done Using a Picture Phone???  Do Your  Business Meetings Online... and Try Your Next Vacation Near Home... Maybe Camping in the Sierras??? Or Hiking the Appalachian Trail???

Eat Fewer Hamburgers... A LOT of Global Warming is Caused by Cows... Maybe Those Meat Alternative are worth Checking Out? OR... Maybe Just Enjoy those Ancient Meals Like a Falafel? Middle Eastern Pocket Bread, Ground Garbanzo Bean Mash Deep Fat Fried, Lettuce, Onions, Tomatoes and INSANELY HOT SAUCE! 

Stop buying New Clothes... Every Time You Buy New, a Corporation Collects Raw Materials, Employs Slaves in Asia to Make the Garment and Ships them By Boat Half Way Around the World and then Drives Them in Trucks to You... Why Not Just Go to Your Local Thrift Store and Buy Recycled Clothes? Our Thrift Store is a Benefit for the Eureka Homeless Shelter. Employing Homeless People and Paying for the Rescue Mission's Food and Rent Bills from their Profits. We Bought a Couch, two chairs, a Piano and Countless Books there... It Wonderful! and they Deliver!


Embroidered Hats, Buttons, Reusable Bags, Postcards 
Etc for sale. All my Profits Go To Greenpeace... Link:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?dp=0&qs=greta

Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan

Great Movie! The Babuskas of Chernobyl [Grandmothers] - People Have Moved Back into the Radioactive Exclusion Zone and are Happy and Healthy...

Catching Fish and Eating Mushrooms from the Forest, Vegetables from their Gardens... Milking Goats...
Subsistence Farmers Just Like the Peasants of Russia Have Lived for a Thousand Years... 

Surprisingly, The People That Moved Back Into the Radioactive Forbidden Zone are Living Longer than The People that Relocated to KIEV, Ukraine... Because they are Happier... Deaths Caused by Despair are Killing Off the Relocated Residents... Alcoholism and The Lack of a Will to Live... Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a defiant community of women lives on some of the most toxic land on Earth. They share this beguiling yet lethal landscape with an assortment of visitors: scientists, soldiers, and even ‘stalkers,’ young thrill-seekers who sneak in to pursue post-apocalyptic fantasies. The story of the self-described “Babushkas” who chose to return after the disaster, defying the authorities and endangering their health, speaks volumes about the pull of home, the desire for free will, and the subjective nature of risk.
https://youtu.be/s3XF56BaxF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N8p-ujQXbQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter survival horror video game... AND MANY PEOPLE CHOOSE TO ACTUALLY VISIT CHERNOBYL TO ACT OUT THE GAME IN REAL LIFE... The game is set in an alternative reality, where a second nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, causing strange changes in the area around it. The game features a non-linear storyline and includes role-playing gameplay elements such as trading and two-way communication with non-player characters.

Great Documentary Movie "Tending the Wild" - Yurok Wisdom - Forest Management - Kalamath River - Salmon - Acorns- Massive Fish Kill by George Bush the Son

https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild

Intentional Controlled Burning of the forest to help fertilize plants, increasing growth. And causes roots to hold more water. Springs have more water after a controlled burn. A Better Plan Than Out Of Control Wildfires... OUR CURRENT SYSTEM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbxLv9EEzs8

Golden Bear Statue on the Klamath River Bridge

American History: 

George Bush sold water to potato farmers in Oregon. That caused a Massive fish kill. Now, Once every five year there is a low salmon population. 

Ironically, while the farmers grew more potatoes and made MORE money that year, the LOSS to people catching fish, renting motel rooms to tourist fishermen and selling Guide services was TEN TIMES AS MUCH as the profit selling potatoes. 

A classic example of WHY it's a bad idea to bribe politicians to do favors for one industry or another. A BETTER PLAN is to do what is right instead of doing what the corrupt lobbyists want... Nowadays, Trump has sold the entire Government to the highest bidder and we have more pollution, more Fracking, more drilling for oil and gas and MUCH MORE pesticides and herbicides... This will cause Ecological damage that may last for 100 years... or more... if that suddenly "SAFE" Atomic Waste gets spilled on a highway when they are trucking it around... 

Top Ten Song List and a Quiz... My Favorites... Answers TOO!

1. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane... This is a hard choice because "Volunteers" is a fine song too, but I'll have to give that Wascally Wabbit her due... It was used in the book "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson... The Lawyer, a Brain Full of LSD, a full bathtub and an AC electric appliance... were to 'become one' at the end of the song when Grace sings the words: "remember, what the dormouse said, _______ _______ ________."
QUIZ: what DID the dormouse say? We were supposed to remember... (answer at bottom of page).

2. "Climb every Mountain" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. sung by the nun in The Sound of Music... Inspirational, and she just NAILED that last note... I read that there are showings of an "audience participation" movie (like Rocky Horror) using the movie "Sound of Music".  People wear lederhosen, nun's habits and sing along with all the songs and make jokes about the dialog... I'd like to go to that!
QUIZ: What's her name?

3. "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin... a Tale of Vikings and Valhalla... Plus, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it... and the lyrics... Robert Plant sings "aaaaooooh"... I also like all those OTHER Led Zep songs... "Stairway to Heaven", "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir" it's hard to find a Zep song I don't like... A satire is on the internet called Viking Kittens.
QUIZ: what other Led Zep song uses this same exact lyric... "aaaaooooh"

4. "Ain't no 'cane in the Brazos, they turned it all into molasses"  written by Leadbelly, sung by Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, John Dawson (NRPS) and Bob Weir in the Festival Express Train movie... A true gem... relaxing on the Trans Canadian Railroad and singing to amuse themselves... I just put this on the list because of the casual, behind the scenes appeal of friends having fun together... the whole film is priceless...
QUIZ: The Festival Express Train went along the Trans Canadian Railway line. This Railroad was immortalized in what song by whom?

5. "Pocket Calculator" by KRAFTWERK... THE original techno beat song... imitated thousands of times by new wave bands, rap music artists, hip-hop, trance... rave... SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINES... changed the face of music forever.
QUIZ: What does the word KRAFTWERK mean in the German language ?

6. "Fixin’ to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish... In my opinion (for what it's worth) this is the best anti-war sing along song... call and response... "Gimme an 'F', Gimme a 'U', Gimme a 'C', Gimme a 'K'...
QUIZ: what's that spell?  Two versions... in the studio and live at Woodstock. Really!

7. Whatever BEATLE song is playing right now... When they are singing a song on the radio, that song becomes "the best Beatle song ever'... until they play another Beatle song and then THAT one is "the best Beatle song ever". If I was forced to choose... I'd have to say "Yellow Submarine" because I have played it in public and been surrounded by people singing the chorus... in Chico, CA...
QUIZ: Has there been a band that has had MORE biography and documentation than The Beatles ? It seems like everyone that ever met them wrote a book, made a movie (Bee-Gees), formed a tribute band (The Monkees, Rain, The Rutles), used their name as a theme for a circus act (Cirque de Soleil) or built a website...

8. "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie... Do you remember the missing 18 1/2 minutes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes... well, Arlo says that they were listening to Alice's Restaurant at the White House and Nixon got embarrassed about having a tape recording of them laughing and singing along with the chorus... so he had Rosemary Woods erase that part of the tape... Imagine Nixon, Liddy and Haldeman in three part harmony...
QUIZ: What can't you get at Alice's Restaurant ? What other song... uses the exact same chord progression ?

9. "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie... I've got to put him on the list because... a LOT of other people really learned from him... Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, me... His wife tells a story of a trip she took to China... The school children were taught ONLY ONE American song to perform for her organization. There are many verses that are not in the official version.  Here is a Secret Verse:
"As I went Walking, I saw a sign,
and on that sign said NO TRESPASSING
on the other side it said NOTHING AT ALL
this side was made for you and me"
QUIZ: "Bound for Glory" movie... No Quiz... Just Remember all those Great Songs... Including... The Grand Coulee Dam!

10. "Truckin' " by The Grateful Dead... Winterland, 1974 during the filming of  "The Grateful Dead Movie"... I sure lucked out, they had a camera crew there to film my LSD trip...
QUIZ: How did Spinal Tap pay tribute to the Dead ?
 END OF TOP TEN LIST
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answers to quiz:
1. The dormouse said "feed your head" in the song... In the book by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" at the Mad Hatters Tea Party: `You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'  This was part of a conversation about riddles. I have no idea WHY we are supposed to remember this... 

2. The Mother Abbess was played by Peggy Wood in the movie with Julie Andrews.

3. All Led Zeppelin songs contain the lyric "aaaaooooh" somewhere in them... Even the instrumentals... Sorry, trick question...

4. Gordon Lightfoot wrote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as theme music for a CBC television show commemorating the l00th anniversary of the railroad...
The 'cain song is about Sugarcane farming in Texas. Prisoners were forced to work harvesting 'cane under slave like conditions. An astonishingly abusive system... The same county in Texas was the birthplace of Tom Delay, the disgraced House of Representatives leader... forced to resign due to being caught taking bribes.
LYRICS to the Leadbelly song...Ain't No More Cane
Ain’ no mo' cane on de Brazis
Oh...
Done groun' it all in molazzis,
Better git yo' overcoat ready,
Well, it's comin' up a norther.
Well, de captain standin' an' lookin' an' cryin',
Well, it's gittin' so col', my row's behin'.
Oh...
Cap'n doncha do me like you did po' Shine,
Drive dat bully till he went stone-blin'.
Oh...

5. KRAFTWERK means Electric power plant. The Simpsons Cartoon show had an episode (entitled KRAFTWERK) about a German corporation that wanted to buy the atomic power plant that Homer works at. When I watched the show, I was disappointed to find no techno-pop music... Just jokes about German Power Plants...
6. Gimme an 'F', Gimme an 'I', gimme an 'S', gimme an 'H'... what's that spell? FISH, what's that spell? FISH...of course, they spelled out the word "FISH" on the studio version... "FUCK" at Woodstock...

7. No... They still have the biggest fan club... however,
The Grateful Dead has had a huge quantity of biographies, documentaries, "from the Vault" record releases, wine label artwork by Garcia, neckties with artwork by Garcia and other "cash in on their fame" items. To top it all off... the court TV channel carried the proceedings from the trial contesting Jerry's WILL by most of his wives and a daughter... squabbling over the money... the only thing that has not been done is a Disney animatronics robot playing MIDI recordings of solos called "The amazing Mr. Jerry"... Like the Country Bear Jamboree...
ELVIS PRESLEY has also had a ridiculous amount of documentation and EBAY sales.

8.Alice. "You can get everything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, 'cepting Alice". The chord progression used in Alice's Restaurant also fits perfectly the Hot Tuna song "Keep on Truckin' MAMA, truck my blues away"... Maybe ALL blues songs use the same chords... These two sure do... I'm sure that musicians might disagree because they are in a different Key but they ARE very close.

9. No quiz. Just enjoy his legacy... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3Ekn_QO6o 

"Grand Coulee Dam" 1949 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Woody Guthrie

l0:  In the Movie Spinal Tap they had many exploding drummers... The Grateful Dead had many keyboard players. Ron McKernan (pigpen), Tom Constanten, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Vince Wellnic and Bruce Hornsby... Ron, Keith, Vince and Brendt died young... RIP... Tom excused himself because the Dead were not weird enough for him... He is still alive and looks great with white hair... Vince Welnic came to the Dead from The Tubes and was the last of The Grateful Dead keyboard players... They still tour as "Dead & Company" and there are a random assortment of players including Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann... Phil Lesh Has His Own Band... 

Five people held mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the faces of The Grateful Dead... Note the Shadows at their Feet... 
by Bob Seidemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seidemann 

Lord Shiva and The Fish - FREE Coloring Book ART by Greg Vanderlaan. - Spotted Owl, Grey Alien and Ezekiel's Wheel

Lord Shiva - or maybe an Alien
Free Coloring Book Art by Greg Vanderlaan

Tropical Fish in an Underwater Garden

Spotted Owl

Mister Robot Face

Grey Alien

Mushroom Geometric Art 

UFO Flying Over Pyramid 

Three Pines by a Lake

Solar - Portrait of the Sun and Other Stars

Three Friends at Lunch

Lord Shiva or maybe another Alien

Ezekiel's Wheel 

Ezekiel's Wheel - FREE Coloring Book ART by Greg Vanderlaan

Alien Spaceship

Three Crosses on a Hill

text art lightning bolt skull
 Free Coloring Book by Greg Vanderlaan

Butterfly Trees in Natural Bridges Park Santa Cruz

where the notes are on the guitar fretboard and piano keyboard

MORE coloring book art...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/12/solar-power-safe-clean-infinite-free.html

Cats in Humboldt County - Some Real, Some Fantasy - Quest Trail in the Headwaters Forest Park

Our Cat Meadow on a Cloudy Day
Mom's Car out the Window - Plymouth Valiant

Mural in Eureka on the Fin and Feather Pet Store

Jack Noonan collecting signatures on petitions in front of the Library
Talking to a Reporter from the Newspaper
Carson Mansion in the Background

Start of the Trail in the Headwaters Forest

The Path Forward

Banana Slug near the creek

Bioneers Conference: Ocean Farmer Bren Smith... Created a kelp/fish farm franchise that anyone can build. GreenWave...

https://www.greenwave.org/  We work to build and support restorative "GreenWave Reefs" around the US and abroad. Each Reef is composed of twenty-five 3D ocean farms, clustered around a seafood hub and hatchery, and surrounded by a ring of institutional buyers and entrepreneurs.

Bren Smith, GreenWave executive director and owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm, pioneered the development of restorative 3D Ocean Farming. A lifelong commercial fisherman, he was named one of Rolling Stone’s “25 People Shaping the Future” and featured in Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2017. He is the winner of the Buckminster Fuller Prize.

Artists Painting a Dolphin on the Storm Drain - flows to bay - in Arcata, California

Fish Art on the Plaza Arcata, California - Flows to the Humboldt Bay - Original Painting on the sidewalk - 

All Under Heaven Store Window Display - Mystic Crystal Revelations - The Mind's True Liberation


Pastels on the Plaza - ART Benefit for Head Start

Boats for Sale

How to comment on the Proposed Destruction of the Endangered Species Act. Help Save our environment and the Animals & Plants that live here with us.

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0007-0001

Click on above link...

To whom it may concern: Do not make any changes at all to the Endangered Species Act. It is working great right now. I believe that Animals are more important than Corporate Profits. Republicriminals are trying to destroy our environment in order to increase corporate profits. Don't do that. 

At my folks house we had a Parakeet named "Pretty Bird", Tadpoles and Tropical Fish.

The bird said the words "Brush Your Teeth". Mom told me that after every meal. The bird heard those words so many times that it became one of it's phrases. It also said "Pretty Bird". Dad raised Tropical Fish. I remember that we had Neon Tetras. He only did it for a couple of years because it was a lot of work to clean the tank and replace the dead fish. He had no talent for raising fish. I remember that it was more fun to go to the pet store than to own our own. The tadpoles I got out of the creek at the end of our street. I brought them home in a jar and kept them in a bucket out back. I saw them grow one leg, two legs, three legs and then the vanished. They just jumped out of the bucket and lived in the backyard. They were still living there today as far as I know.

Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Chords and Lyrics to "Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish

FEEL LIKE I'M FIXIN TO DIE RAG
Country Joe & the Fish


[Spoken] GIMME AN "F"
GIMME AN "I"
GIMME A "S"
GIMME A "H"
WHAT'S THAT SPELL... FISH
WHAT'S THAT SPELL... FISH
WHAT'S THAT SPELL... FISH

D7
come on all of you big strong men
G
Uncle Sam needs your help again
     D7
he's got himself in a terrible jam
G
way down yonder in Viet Nam so
E7                      A7
put down your books and pick up a gun we're
D7                       G
gonna have a whole lotta fun

CHORUS
         D/E  D/F  D/F#               G
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for
               D7                              G
don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
         D/E   D/F  D/F#               G
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
E7               A7          D7                      G
ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die


come on generals, let's move fast
your big chance has come at last
now you can go out and get those reds
cos the only good commie is the one that's dead and
you know that peace can only be won when we've
blown 'em all to kingdom come

come on wall street don't be slow
why man this war is a go-go
there's plenty good money to be made by
supplying the army with the tools of its trade
let's hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
they drop it on the Viet Cong

come on mothers throughout the land
pack your boys off to Viet Nam
come on fathers don't hesitate
send your sons off before it's too late
and you can be the first ones on your block
to have your boy come home in a box

Crescent City California Photographs - Harbor - Mermaid Redwood Sculpture - Coast Guard Tile Mosaic Murals - Lighthouse

If you can't come here in Person, here are Photographs of Crescent City to enjoy... However you can't experience the smell or the sound of gulls...

Happy Fish sculpture at the Harbor

Coast Guard Tile Mosaic Crescent City

Mermaid Redwood Chainsaw Carving Crescent City

Crescent City Citizens Dock

Coast Guard Tile Mosaic Crescent City