LA Climate Week w/ Ekaterina Sky (4/11)

Climate Day for LA Climate Week

Ekaterina Sky (Arts & Culture Day for a Living Planet | Partiful) Arts & Culture day for a Living Planet (Partiful)

• Sky Portal X Gallery DTLA
• 201 S. Broadway
• Downtown Los Angeles, CA
• 12:00 PM–6:00 PM

​Culture Day at LA Climate Week is on Saturday, ​April 11, 2026

Sky Portal X Gallery – Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is where culture becomes climate action. We’re gathering artists, storytellers, scientists, and cultural leaders for an afternoon exploring how creativity can shape the future of our planet.

This is a space for connection, expression, and real conversations where art meets climate, and ideas turn into action. Featuring visual artists:

• @ekaterina.sky.art
• @meena.amani
• @ofthestardustandearth
• @havilahabrego
• @brendannorth
• @eubankart
• @climatediva
• @dmogrobejo
• @Amyburkmanart

In addition, there are performances by ODE, Brittany Neff, @lauradelhauer @inannaforearth @hysterical_theatre

In collaboration with: @LAClimateWeek @entertainmentculturepavilion @plantbasedtreaty @climatehealers @climatefutures.art @greenfilmschoolalliance @artful.impact @creativemigration @with.love.projects @glynnbarrishdreyer @ragroyalty.

Installations by:

• Sustainable Latina a Multidisciplinary Artist | Sustainable Fashion & Textile Waste Expert | Climate Storyteller

What to expect:

• Breathwork and sound bath sessions
• artist interviews
• poetry
• storytelling
• Vegan plant-based lunch plus keynote conversation

Panel:

• Culture & climate action pathways
• Workshops on sustainable filmmaking, fashion, and imagination
• Live performances throughout the day
• Closing performance

Plus: experience the incredible work of Gregg Fleishman exhibition onsite. More

• RSVP: Climate Day in LA Climate Week with artist Ekaterina Sky, Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 12:00 PM | FREE (Meetup)

Vegan Dinner and Talk (Calabasas)

(Vegan Spirituality) Dr. Will Tuttle on "Six Keys to Personal & Planetary Health" for LA Climate Week, Saturday, April 11, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

100,000 feared dead in Burma, Bangkok

Myanmar earthquake aftershocks: massive destruction in Burma, Thailand, and China, people trapped
(Wild WeatherUS) March 30, 2025: A devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar), killing at least 1,700 people [with many left unaccounted for], injuring thousands, collapsing buildings as far away as Bangkok, Thailand, and prompting urgent rescue efforts amid ongoing aftershocks and a deepening humanitarian crisis. #earthquake #myanmar #bangkok

(The Sun) Woman pulled ALIVE from earthquake rubble after being buried

Fierce 7.7 earthquake hits Bangkok, Thailand, Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar)

(The Sun) Devastating 7.7 Myanmar (Burma) quake death toll surges as new footage emerges

What is the Buddhist Southeast Asian Peninsula?

• LIVE UPDATES: Myanmar-Thailand earthquake live updates: Over 1,000 dead, officials say (ABC News)

How is Bangkok NOW? Day after earthquake, March 29, 2025 🇹🇭 Thailand

Up to 100k feared dead in devastating Myanmar quake as Bangkok declared ‘disaster zone’

(The Sun) Burmese monks squat down during shaking as they watch nearby building collapse

(The Sun) March 28, 2025: Myanmar (Burma) Earthquake death toll "up to 100K" as Bangkok, Thailand, declared "disaster zone."

(PBS) Buildings collapse as 7.7 quake rocks Myanmar and Thailand

(Sky News) What made Myanmar (Burma) earthquake so powerful?

• Buddhism in Myanmar
• Buddhism in Thailand
• Buddhism in Southeast Asia

Videos show water gushing from a rooftop pool and a high-rise building collapse as a massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar (Buddhist Burma) and Thailand. Up to 100,000 are feared dead with dozens still trapped under mountains of rubble after skyscrapers, religious buildings (golden temples), and family homes crumbled to the ground. Read more: thesun.co.uk/news/3410922...

Meanwhile, Israel bombs Beirut, Lebanon

#TheSun #News #Myanmar  Subscribe to The Sun: @thesun. Get The Sun's latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business, and lifestyle. Read The Sun: thesun.co.uk. Facebook: thesun. X: thesun. TikTok: thesun. Subscribe to The Sun on Snapchat: 1633225139. #TheSun #News #myanmar #thailand

• The Sun, March 28, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

How I learned to fly (video)

My most brutal wingsuit flight ever | Täschhorn (4491 meters)

(Swiss JoHannes | Wingsuit) After years of dreaming, we finally did the highest possible wingsuit base jump in the Alps, from the top of Täschhorn, Switzerland.

Big hug to Mario for joining me on this mission. I couldn't have done it without him. Thanks, Bro! In total, we climbed for about 9 hours and spent one night at the Mischabeljoch bivouac. It was challenging leaving nothing behind and flying down with all of our equipment.

On the top we have to scramble five pitches to the exit point, belayed gear up. I jumped around 10:30 am during perfect conditions, without thermals (rising heat columns).

But after 40 seconds of flying, my arms were really tired, so I couldn't hold the glide and had to fly more steeply. Unfortunately, it is not getting much better. It is becoming a serious problem as I can hardly feel my fingers holding on.

Now if I could just learn to "fly" on land

Antonia was waiting at the LZ with a cold one. Mario and I landed safely. I don't know what happened to my weak arms... Was it the altitude or the heavy bag? I was exhausted AF and glad we got down safely. What a mission, what a mountain! Source

• Flight data: skyderby.ru/tracks/128771...
• Assorted wingsuit daredevils; Swiss JoHannes | Wingsuit, 9/2/24; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Annular Solar Eclipse Easter Island (live)

LIVE: Annular Solar Eclipse, Oct. 2, 2024

Titan Rahu causes eclipses.

(timeanddate) Started streaming ~10:20 am (Pacific). Let's watch timanddate.com’s LIVE show of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024 — weather permitting, visible from super remote Easter Island and parts of southern Chile and Argentina.

Surrounding countries, including Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay, will get a partial solar eclipse.

Hop on timeanddate.com to see the livestream and follow live blog with real-time progress reports and background information. Timeanddate.com has real-time animations, maps, times, and much more for this spectacular eclipse.

World's best church for Christian worship

World’s least accessible place of worship | BBC Earth Unplugged

(BBC Earth Unplugged) Sept. 25, 2024: Popularly known as the “church in the sky,” Abuna Yemata Guh is situated almost 8,460 feet up. Join comedian Romesh Ranganathan as he attempts to access this spectacular Christian monastery.

ABOUT: Welcome to Earth Unplugged! which makes films about the incredible natural world, investigates the conundrums, quirks, and beautiful science of our amazing planet, delving into the BBC vaults and mixing it up with other stuff to take a brand-new look at Earth.

(Awakening Wisdom) Yazoo of Nazeroo returned from Tibet/India

Christianity in Ethiopia? (BBC Earth) While exploring a 700-year-old monastery, Simon Reeve looks at Ethiopia's history of [African] Christianity. It was the first Christian kingdom in the world.

Want to share views with the team behind BBC Earth and win prizes? Join the fan panel here: http://tinyurl.com/YouTube-BBCEarth-F... This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthUnplugged Animal Slow Motion: http://bit.ly/EarthUnpluggedSlowMotion... Expeditions: http://bit.ly/EarthUnpluggedExpedition... Big Questions with Maddie Moate: http://bit.ly/BigQuestionsWithMaddieM... Wilderness Sessions: http://bit.ly/WildernessSessionsFilms. For information and feedback: http://bbcworldwide.com/vod-feedback-...

• BBC Earth Unplugged, Sept. 25, 2024; BBC Earth, 2/5/19; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Short Attention Span Theater (viral)

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

SKY Collective's Guru Purnima Festival

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How shall we raise our kundalini energy from the base of the spine to the crown of the head?

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Guru Purnima Festival 2023, Los Angeles

Shabd Kriya Yoga is a Sonic Theology honoring the roots of Kundalini Yoga in sacred sound.

• What is India's Guru Purnima?

Together members are forming a new tradition, celebrating the ancient holiday of Guru Purnima and the perfect light of the Moon.

Moon beams shower us with the wisdom of a cool, sweet, awakening touch. Moon is a goddess. This three-day festival in takes place at multiple locations in Pasadena and Altadena, LA County, California:

• DETAILS: Guru Purnima Festival: AWAKEN YOUR DIVINE WISDOM in the Moon's Light TICKETS, Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite
• SKY Collective's Guru Purnima Festival
• Agni: Kundalini Kriya Intensive and Yoga as Therapy Teacher Training (agniyogaintensive.com)

Kundalini Kriya Yoga, meditation, sacred chant, Shabd Kriya, Ayurvedic wisdom, dharma lectures, kirtan, healing ceremony...Ravi Singh and Kriya's All-Star Teachers with music by Tom Rossi and Moni Vargas. EK (Evolving Kundalini).

• For info call Lea Kraemer: (626) 421-3851
• Disclosure Project: SKY Collective's Guru Purnima YOGA Festival (July 1-3), Sat, Jul 1, 2023, 5:30 PM | Meetup
• PasaDharma: SKY Collective's Guru Purnima YOGA Festival (July 1-3), Sat, Jul 1, 2023, 5:30 PM | Meetup

High above Los Angeles: Forgotten Highway

It's smoggy because Los Angeles is a basin.

May gray has given way to June gloom in the City of Lost Angels. It's been a stint of Seattle/London weather, misty, foggy, drizzly, and a bit on the cool side. The mushrooms must love it, the tourists not so much. SoCal is famous for its sun, sand, and suffering. But the sun has become undependable. Recently, the massive snows have left the hills with more moisture than usual. Most of that has melted away. But there's a giant forest behind the smoggy County of LA, as most maps show. All that green space is mostly chaparral covered mountains with rocky soil only the dwindling population of bighorn sheep and rugged hikers love. When one gets to the top of the highway, there's a gate that never opens. What's behind it? Let's find out.

Exploring California's Highway 39, closed for over 40 years

(Sidetrack Adventures) May 31, 2023. California State Route 39 heads into the mountains of the Angeles National Forest above the megalopolis of Los Angeles, north of the little City of Azusa. It has been called California's "Forbidden Highway" or "Forgotten Highway."

The last four and a half miles of it have been closed since 1978, preventing it from connecting with State Route 2. Because of the closure and dead end, the road sees very little traffic, despite being only miles from the second largest city in the United States.

This video shows a drive up the forest highway through the Angeles National Forest, which is the same road used in the Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Let's check out what there is to see along the way.

Then let's explore the section of road that has been closed for over 40 years, a road that was once considered one of the most scenic in California.

For another look at Highway 39, check out this video on the road by Roaming Benji: • California's Forg... ○ Gear used: amazon.com/shop/sidetrack... ► Subscribe for weekly updates showcasing some  adventures: @sidetrackadventures

Impossible: man flies off building (video)

Video Shorts; Base Jumping X Team Wannabees, Wisdom Quarterly

It's fun to watch in first class (of a car)

There's an extreme sport called "base jumping," taking a parachute in hand and throwing it into the wind when jumping off things -- buildings, cliffs, any platform will do really. What becomes possible when the wings/glider or flexible parachute can be maneuvered and aimed at landing spots? Here one daredevil goes from sky to rooftop of a skyscraper on the beach, probably a resort hotel, where he's not welcome by its security agent posted their to guard some VIP or other. They tell him to get off, but rather than the steps or elevator, he decides to jump off the edge. They helplessly run after him and watch him commit suicide, only he has other plans. A backflip into the wind then the descent of a raptor, skimming the surf and softly alighting on the sand. Success! How in the world it was filmed, we have to wonder. AI-controlled GoPro? How did the cam know to turn around for the backflip? No wonder China and TikTok will one day rule the world.

Watching this clip on a car video screen, I may want to parachute to the ground.

When do those George Jetson flying cars get here already? They exist. Let's go. Sky tickets!

The sky is falling: snow in Los Angeles

• Massive winter storm that brought rare snow to parts of sunny California now moving east to torment the rest of the country
• Discovered! 1,200-year-old mansion in the desert with secret vaults
• The mystical origins of Indigo Children (and why the movement is riddled with controversy)

(Forbes) What is this strange substance falling from the cold desert sky?

It's not a desert! Well, do Mediterranean climates freeze over like this?

• VIDEO: Ancient bones discovered (msn.com)

Ancient bones were discovered recently in the Americas and Europe. Henry Sadler, an American middle school science teacher, found the humerus bone of a massive Columbian mammoth while diving in a river in Florida. In 2021, Italian archeologists found the 100,000-year-old remains of nine Neanderthals in a cave near Rome. In 2020, workers in Mexico digging the foundations for a new airport made a startling discovery: several woolly mammoth bones. Inside Edition Digital’s Andrea Swindall has more.

Last solar eclipse of 2022: Tuesday, Oct. 25

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly OPINION; Space.com

Everything NASA tells us is a lie. - John Lear

According to space.com there will be a solar eclipse today -- Tuesday, Oct. 25 -- just in time to confuse all the spirits stirring for their annual appearance on the human plane. Animals will be disturbed, too, as they seem to be able to see them. What causes an eclipse?

The unrecognized Rahu (alternating with Ketu) strays across the sky and covers it, according to the ancient Dharmic religions of India -- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Brahmanism, Skihism, and possibly Rumi's Sufism (which is technically mystical Islam) -- not to mention the biblical views of Sumer, Judea, and Christiandom.

• Last solar eclipse of 2022 thrills skywatchers around the world | Space.com

Sure, science has a different explanation that drowns everyone else out. How dare a religion have a point of view. Something about the sun be 400 times farther away than the moon but at a perfect distance to seem exactly the same size as the moon. That's unlikely and not what our eyes tell us. But who are we to believe, what someone says science says or what we say when we look up and see for ourselves?

Where in the world is Dal Lake, India/Pakistan? (wikipedia)

• Eclipse over Dal Lake in the Himalayas of disputed India/Pakistan (Twitter)

In any case, however it happens, someone celestial object is getting in the way of another today. And that may have some astrological portent. Maybe a "dark pall" has spread over the British Empire because Rishi Sunak has become the first person of color (and Hindu) to become the country's political leader?

Or maybe it's American royal K Ye West spreading his dark message of antisemetism and white supremacy (Trump loving White Lives Matter moves). Or maybe the billions of oppressed "darker" people of color on the planet are reflected in the skies.

Or maybe it's the scourge of anti-dark worldwide racism wrought by white supremacists worldwide trying to keep an advantage provided to them by past and present empires (like the Greeks of yore and Americans of Apocalypse Now).

Who knows for sure? Any symbolism could be made out of it, depending on how one chooses to see natural phenomena play out over our personal affairs and points of view.

Will Russia lose [US proxy] war to Ukraine?

Piers Morgan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Sky News; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Naïve" to think Russia will lose [US proxy] war to Ukraine, says Dr. Jordan Peterson

(Sky News Australia) Sept. 22, 2022. Notions that the Russians are going to lose any war in Ukraine are “naïve,” says professor and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson. It's naive to think so, he tells Piers Morgan, “or [to think] that we’re going to win,” he adds. “I don’t understand that. What do you mean we’re going to win? What are we going to win here exactly? Dr. Peterson says even if President Vladimir Putin allowed Russia to retreat from Ukraine, the invaded country would be left in “smoking ruins.”

Parade of planets in sky; Mercury retrograde

Amanda Kooser (CNET); BuzzFeed; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Handy map of our sky/akasha-loka/space.

What to call it, Planet Parade? Planet Party? Planet-Palooza? Whatever, there will be a lovely lineup of the visible planets across the early morning sky in June.

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are the stars of the show, but we might get lucky and spot Mercury, too.

The first prime viewing opportunity comes early on the mornings of June 3rd and 4th.

"All five naked-eye planets will line up in the dawn sky in June. Not only that, they'll also be in their proper order from the sun," Sky & Telescope said in a statement Tuesday.

Venus through Saturn should be easy to see if the sky is clear. Mercury is the wild card. Sky & Telescope recommends using binoculars and finding a place with a clear view low toward the east. Just be sure to get out there at least 30 minutes before the sun rises.

Check with timeanddate.com to find local sunrise times. The planet-fest will continue on through the month. A NASA graphic from the agency's What's Up Skygazing Guide shows what to look for in mid-June at around 45 minutes before sunrise. More

Sky Archeology with LIDAR

Dr. A. Stewart Walker (Lidar Magazine); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

LIDAR acquisition from fixed-wing aircraft dominates QSI’s flying program. In the Pacific Northwest, for example, there are often considerable challenges due to terrain and coniferous vegetation.

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Hyperspectral: LIDAR returns for each tree

Lidar Magazine: Despite the pandemic, you are working on many projects. Can you give us a flavor of some of the most exciting ones? ...

Senior V.P. Mark Meade (Quantum Spatial Inc.): Our scale and the diversity of our solutions enable us to work on many incredibly exciting projects.

We just completed a very large project that fused hyperspectral data with high-density LIDAR [laser imaging, detection, and ranging] to identify the species and health of deciduous vegetation.

This was specifically related to ash trees that are falling prey to the emerald ash borer [beetle] and serve as a major risk to above-ground infrastructure for electricity. We were told this was the largest high-resolution hyperspectral project ever undertaken anywhere in the world.

Space: lunar exploration from sky

In terms of scenic locations, few projects can compare to the natural beauty of Yosemite National Park.

We are nearing the completion of 1,243 square miles of LIDAR there at QL1 specifications. We couldn’t resist flying Half Dome and El Capitan at much higher densities.... More

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What about finding pyramids, civilizations?

Imagine the possibilities: discovering African pyramids in Egypt from the sky.

Dr. Sarah Parcak knows there are no straight lines in nature. Grids indicate human cities.

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Airborne Archaeology (Lidar Mag)

Space Archaeologist Dr. Sarah Parcak has worked in 12 countries and four continents, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify thousands of previously unknown pyramids, temples, settlements, roads, fortresses, palaces, tombs, and even [potential evidence of extraterrestrial visits]. From there, her stories take us back in time and across borders, into the day-to-day lives of ancient humans whose traits and genes we share. More

Year's biggest supermoon tonight, April 7-8

Bruce McClure (earthsky.org/tonight); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Moon over Garden of the Gods (devas), Colorado Springs (Joe Randall/Facebook/EarthSky)

Full moons at apogee (farthest from Earth, left) and perigee (closest to Earth, right) in 2011. Composite image by C. B. Devgun in India for EarthSky. Using the eye alone, it’ll be difficult to notice any size difference for the full moon of April 7-8, 2020. But moon-watchers might notice that this is a very bright full moon, and Earth’s oceans will feel an extra pull.

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What's a "supermoon"? (EarthSky)

In North America we often call the April full moon the Awakening Moon, Pink Moon, Grass Moon, or Egg Moon. In 2020, this April full moon also presents the closest (and thereby largest) supermoon of the year.

This full moon more closely coincides with lunar perigee – the moon’s closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit – than does any other full moon in the year 2020.

Will we notice that the moon is larger than usual? Probably not...unless one is a very experienced and discerning observer.

Moon (Trish Minogue Collins/EarthSky)

The angular diameter of a supermoon appears about 7% larger than that of an average-size full moon, and about 14% bigger than the angular diameter of a micro-moon or mini-moon (the year’s most distant and therefore smallest full moon), perhaps not enough to be noticeable to most of us using the eye alone.

On the other hand, will we notice that the full moon of April 7-8 is particularly bright? Yes! Well, maybe...if we’re observant moon-watchers. Why? That’s because supermoons can be up to 15% brighter than an average-size full moon, 30% brighter than a micro-moon.

The moon comes closest to the Earth for the entire year when it reaches perigee on April 7, 2020, at 18:08 UTC. Of this year’s 13 lunar perigees, this is one of only two that comes closer than 221,830 miles (357,000 km). More

• Phases of the moon: 2001 to 2100
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