Episode 32 is an in-depth profile of bassist, composer, and activist Jason Davis, who started the Climate Stories Project as a way to help people discuss climate change and how it manifests in their own lives.  Since its inception, the Project has collected personal narratives of climate change from all over the world.  As a composer, Jason began creating musical settings for some of these narratives, creating uniquely intimate and revealing soundscapes that infuse our understanding of climate change with empathy and emotional depth.  Host Warren Senders' lengthy interview with Jason is interwoven with excerpts from his compositions.

Music and Video

——

Jason Davis interview with

Warren Senders

December 4, 2025

"Resting Storm"

Voices of

Marybeth Holleman &

Bessie Sinnok

Music by Earthsound:

Amir Milstein, flute

Henrique Eisenmann, piano

Bertram Lehmann, drums

Jason Davis, bass

Claire Bourg, violin

Harriet Langley, violin

Jing Peng, viola

Jung-Hsuan Ko, cello

"Different Trains"

Composed by Steve Reich

Performed by

The Kronos Quartet

Elektra Nonesuch 9-79176-2

"Ice is What I Remember"

Voice of Joseph Dumelin

with

Sienna Dahlen - Voice

Jason Davis - Bass

McGill University, Montreal

May 25, 2018

"Take a Climate

Storytelling Workshop"

Introductory video from

Climate Stories Project Website.

Climate story excerpts from:

Giorgia Cavicchia

Chris Hansen

Emma Feveux

Kate Trudeau

Fatoumata Diallo

Absalom David Kinyonga

Clifford Paul

Amna Javed

Sarika

Yuanzhe Li

Mohit

Hannia Candelario

Tanvi Malhotra

Nadine Lefort

Ishino Akihiro

"Footsteps In Snow"

voice of John Sinnock

Jason Davis, bass

"The Counsel of Trees"

Text and voice by

Jessica Lind Peterson

Electronics — Jason Davis

"Bounce"

Choreography:

Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp

Stage Design:

Stephanie Ashenfelder

Music: Jason Davis

Student Dancers

& Climate Storytellers:

Vera Blackford, Jhanaj Quispe,

Giovanni Correa-Quiñones,

Aubrey Lanham, Sally Gill,

Stella Lempert

"A Mata Atlântica na Música"

Music and interviews

by Jason Davis

"We Can Do Hard Things"

Yvette Stewart — Voice

Music by Jason Davis

To learn more, please read

"Music for a Changing Climate,"

published by Orion Magazine.

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Episode 31 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet meets the New Year with new resolve to inspire all our listeners to do something healing for our planet. It can be making “good trouble,” as John Lewis once told us; it can be raising awareness with song; it can be coming together in community. Or simply being a caring person to those around you. We dedicate this episode to the future.

Episode 31 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet meets the New Year with new resolve to inspire all our listeners to do something healing for our planet. It can be making “good trouble,” as John Lewis once told us; it can be raising awareness with song; it can be coming together in community. Or simply being a caring person to those around you. We dedicate this episode to thefuture.

Episode 30 (Season 2) is a profile of the legendary activist collective The Church of Stop Shopping, led by Reverend Billy (William Talen) and Savitri D. Beginning with anti-consumerist actions in New York's Times Square in the 1990s, the church grew into a powerful performing force, with infectious gospel grooves, dozens of voices in harmony, and Reverend Billy's heartfelt, eloquent anti-consumption message delivered in true prophetic voice.

Warren Senders' interview with Reverend Billy and Director Savitri D is interspersed with video of the Church's music-filled activism and activism-filled music, and supplemented with historical and cultural context.

To learn more, go to revbilly.com.

Music and Video

"I Am Not The Only One"
The Stop Shopping Choir
from "The Sun Is A Star That Keeps Me Warm"

Richard Nixon, Lloyd Shopping Center
Portland, Oregon, September 13, 1960
KGW Vault, Portland
George W. Bush
CNN, December 2006
"On The Road!"
Reverend Billy and the
Church of Stop Shopping

"Bye, Bye Buying"
Reverend Billy
December, 2013

Billy Graham Crusade
Film recorded 1957
Billy Sunday Warns America
Film recorded 1926
"It's The End of the World"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Joe's Pub, Public Theater, New York
Sep 18, 2014

"Can We Be Strange Enough to Change Enough?"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 22, 2025

"Paradise Now"
The Living Theater
Berlin Sports Palast
January 10, 1970
from "Signals Through The Flames"
Mystic Fire Video
Augusto Boal clip
Centro de Teatro do Oprimido
"Money Makes The World Go Around"
Bread & Puppet Theater
Glover, VT
September, 2019
(Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)
"Reverend Billy Exorcises BP At Tate Museum"
London, UK
Jul 19, 2011

"Love Earth"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 22, 2025

"The Fabulous Unknown"
Reverend Billy and
the Stop Shopping Choir
from "The Sun Is A Star That Keeps Me Warm"

"Monsanto's Deadly Secret in Central Park"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
New York City, Apr 1, 2016

"Fabulous Bad Weather"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Lyrics by William Talen & Savitri Durkee
From "The Earth Wants You"
Brooklyn, Apr 7, 2016

Interview with
William Talen & Savitri D
November 17, 2025

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Episode 29 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet enters the holiday season with songs and talk about coming together to make things better. Whether it’s finding peace in sharing voices musically, even in the midst of war; of joining hands to combat social injustice; of convening world leaders to confront climate change; or just helping each other through the dark times of recent decades. We enjoin you to dispense with the consumerism of the season, and spend quality time with those you love. Share more – buy less. And have a happy holiday.

Episode 28, "Thinking About Farms," hosted by Warren Senders, features a long interview with NYT Bestselling author Michael Grunwald about his new book, "We Are Eating The Earth," which examines the problematic role of our farming and agriculture systems in climate change.  Grunwald's perspectives are interwoven with examples of music from all over the world on farming and agricultural themes. You'll never think of farms and farmers the same way ever again!

—— Music and Video ——
"Land Is Not Free"
Grant Livingston
July 14, 2025
Books & Books, Miami, FL
Michael Grunwald Interview
Recorded October 13, 2025
"Harvest For The World"
The Isley Brothers, 1976
Epic LP 144172
"Soybeans, The Farmer's Dream"
Travis Peck
Oklahoma Soybean Council
"Song to Encourage The Rice Sowers"
"Music for the Rice Harvest"
from
"The Music of the Dan"
UNESCO LP BM 30L 2301
"N'Guatu"
Oumou Sangare
from "Worotan"
World Circuit WCD 045
"The Garbage Song"
Composed by Bill Steele
George Ward and Campers
Camp Killooleet, 1970
Privately Issued LP
Film of Cattle
from "American Cowboy"
Courtesy Prelinger Film Archives
"Milk Bucket Boogie"
Composed by Reece Shipley & W.C. Murray
Performed by Red Foley
Decca 45 9-27981
Eritrean Milking Song
Afta Village, Zula District
Recorded by Jean Jenkins
Tangent Records TGM 102
"The Roast Beef of Old England"
Composed by Richard Leveridge
Performed by Charles MacDougall
and the London Early Opera
"Massa Music — Returning The Herd"
Recorded in Chad, April 16, 1966
Anthologie De La Musique Du Tchad,
Le Mayo-Kebbi Occidental
Ocora LP OCR 37
"Toupouri Music of the Milk-Drinkers Society"
Recorded in Chad, April 18, 1966
Anthologie De La Musique Du Tchad,
Le Mayo-Kebbi Occidental
Ocora LP OCR 37
Cattle Herders in Chad
Filmed by Watson Kintner, 1967
Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania
"Bruto Memo" (ft. Marco Brasil Filho)
Bruno & Barretto
(Léo Targino / Jota Lennon /
Rodolfo Alessi / Kleber Paraíba)
© 2018 Planos Produções Artísticas Ltda.
"BaAka Pygmy Music"
Recorded in Central African rainforest
Film and music courtesy Michelle Kisliuk
"Todor Todorka Dumaše"
Dafinka Stojaneva Paneva &
Niculina Kirova Nejkova
From "Two Girls Started To Sing —
Bulgarian Village Singing"
Recorded in Bulgaria 1978-1988
by Martha Forsyth
Rounder LP 1055
"Daddy Won't Sell The Farm"
performed by Montgomery Gentry
from "Tattoos and Scars" (1999)
Columbia CK 69156
"The BioFuel Song"
LiveBroadKast
from "Repayment"
© 2012 Canute Parks
"Eat That Chicken"
Composed and performed
by Charles Mingus
from "Oh Yeah"
Atlantic LP 1377
"You Are What You Eat"
Composed and performed by
Purly Rae Gates
©1991, P. Gates / BMI

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Episode 27 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet starts out with a song about ordinary Americans banding together this month to celebrate No Kings Day. But most of the show will be focused on the disparity between the obvious importance of food and farming, to the struggles that farmers have faced every day for over a century – from sharecroppers to struggling family farms, to the plight and heroism of Hispanic farmworkers in today’s fields. Along the way we’ll hear short clips from an interview with Michael Grunwald, author of We Are Eating the Earth, sharing a new perspective on the perils of global farming.

Episode 26 profiles the Climate Music Project, a San Francisco-based team that brings together scientists, musicians, and graphic artists to create new ways to communicate climate science.  The CMP's innovative multi-media presentations offer hard data with an emotional score and compelling visuals to transform audience members' personal engagement with climate change.  We feature interviews with co-founders Stephen Crawford and Fran Schulberg, climatologist Garrett Boudinot, and composer Erik Ian Walker, along with excerpts from five of the CMP's groundbreaking pieces.

Music:
"What If We...?"
composed and performed
by Wendy Loomis
with Royal Kent

"Why Does The Sun Shine?"
Performed by Tom Glazer
From "Space Songs"
Motivation Records
MR 0312

"Why Does The Sun Shine?"
"Why Does The Sun
(Really) Shine?"
Performed by
They Might Be Giants
Late Late Show
December 11, 2009

"Der Rufer"
Composed by Michael Edgerton
Performed by
Bremer Schlagzeugensemble
October 10, 2021

"Particle Partita"
Composed by Edward Cowie
Performed by
Peter Sheppard Skærved &
Mihailo Trandafilovsk
St. Michaels Church,
March 1, 2019

"Icarus In Flight"
Composed by Richard Festinger
Performed by
The Telegraph Quartet
San Francisco, 2018

"Climate"
Composed and performed
by Erik Ian Walker
"Audyssey"
Composed and performed
by Eduardo Del Signore
"Voices of the Animals"
Composed and performed
by Scarlet Rivera
Explorers Club, New York City
October, 2024

"I Wanna Be Cool"
Words and music by
Will Kimbrough & Brant Miller
Performed by over 2600
young people from 4 continents
Music Declares Emergency
& The Climate Music Project

"What If We...?"
composed and performed
by Wendy Loomis
with Royal Kent

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Episode 25 is a mixed bag of tunes, starting out with Pay Attention by Joyce Johnson Rouse, singing with her group, Earth Mama. It’s a simple – even childlike – doo-wop kind of song that asks us to pay attention to the earth, and all the wonderful things it gives us.  But it also makes clear our responsibility to keep it clean and whole.

Building on Earth Mama’s insistence to take responsibility for our planet, next is Crys Matthews, singing her Waking Up the Dead, a song about our generational responsibility to the slaves, some dead hundreds of years, now buried in the cemetery Crys finds herself walking through. She feels their suffering and celebrates their struggle to achieve the freedom they got only in death. But she also offers her gratitude for all they went through toget her to her own freedom – and wonders: Who were they?  It is a moving ode to freedom and responsibility.  

And speaking of freedom, our next song, No Kings, comes with a montage of all the demonstrations that arose on No KingsDay last June 14 – one of the largest protests in US history. The song says “No Kings in the USA,” and we all know it’s talking about that corrupt Man Who Would Be King, sitting in the White House. It’s a boisterous, rousing piece of soul music, rejoicing in the knowledge that “No man owns the USA.” It’s a good reminder that the second No Kings Day is coming up soon, on October 18. And courage is contagious, so tell all your friends.

Finally, we round out today’s episode. with something of the spoken word – Come Write a Song With Us, by Lu Aya, co-founder of The Peace Poets – a hip-hop and spoken word crew from the Bronx. Lu is an educator, musician, and champion of social justice. His poem tells us we are all interwoven, and songs have the power to embody that idea.

Episode 24 — "Old and New Sunlight"When we remember that fossil fuels are simply the sunlight that fell on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, it changes our perspective on energy use.  It's ALL solar power; the only difference is whether it's old or new.  All these forms of energy have their own music, and this episode of "Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet" brings together songs of coal miners and anti-mining activists, the songs of oil drillers and of those fighting to preserve their lands, the songs of anti-fracking campaigns...and songs from all over the world in acknowledgement and gratitude to the Sun — along with film clips and interviews for a fascinating musical journey through Earth's energy economy, hosted by Warren Senders.
Music:
"The Sun's Gonna Shine In My Door Someday"
Big Bill Broonzy
"Our Mr. Sun"
Directed by Frank Capra, 1956
Bell Systems Science Series
Public Domain, courtesy A/V Geeks LLC
"Black Lung"
Hazel Dickens, 1990
Film by Mimi Pickering
Courtesy of Appalshop Films
"42 Years"
Nimrod Workman, 1983
From the Alan Lomax Collection,
American Folklife Center,
Library of Congress
Courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity
"Coal Miners' Song"
Traditional Folk Songs of Japan,
Collected by Ryutaro Hattori,
Folkways Records FE 4534
"Ham Hai Coal India"
Promotional Video
Ministry of Coal, Government of IndiaInterview with film-maker and activist Surya Shankar Dash, India
"Niyamraja's Lament"
Dombu Praska,
Niyamgiri Hills, November 2013
Film by Surya Shankar Dash
"Dharini — Earth Festival"
Domgria Kondh Tribespeople
Niyamgiri Hills, April 2016
Film by Surya Shankar Dash
"Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti Victory March"
Domgria Kondh Tribespeople
Niyamgiri Hills, April 2016
Film by Surya Shankar Dash
"I'm A Tool-Pusher From Snyder"
Slim Willet
Star Talent 770-B
"This Old Rig"
Freddie Frank
Permian Records
PR 1001-A
"Energy Crisis"
Public Service Announcement
US Department of Energy
"There is Only So Much Oil In The Ground"
Tower Of Power
From "Urban Renewal", 1974
Warner Brothers BS 2834
Interview with Eco-Musicologist Olusegan Titus, Nigeria.
"Black Tide"
Ubrei-Joe Jeru
Film courtesy Olusegan Titus
"Niger Delta"
Nneka Egbuna
From "No Longer At Ease", 2008
Yo Mama's Recording – YPS 88697111381
"Frackin' The Hole"
Wes St. John
KECO Radio, April 22, 2011
"Before The Drilling Rigs Got Here"
Thom Chacon
from "Buy This Fracking Album"
www.thomchacon.com/
"Frack Attack"
Quintin "Jitsvinger" Goliath — lyrics, vocals
Loris Raimondi — music
Pete O'Donoghue, Travys Owen — sound & animation
Produced by Pippa Ehrlich and
Treasure Karoo Action Group
"Tum Jaago Mohan Pyaare"
Khyal in Raga Bhairav
Pt. Narayanrao Vyas
HMV 78 N-7525
"Lile"
(Hymn to the Sun"
Anchiskhati Choir, Tbilisi, Georgia
March 14, 2010
"An die untergehende Sonne, D 457"
(To the setting sun)
Robert Elibay-Hartog — Baritone
Dante Lorenzo DiIanni — Piano
London, April 15, 2012
"Solar Energy"
Ambition Boyz, January 21, 2022
O-Rymz, Ox-Milez
Trainees at Solar Installation Program
Don Bosco Academy,
Kamuli, Uganda
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