I created the eco-grinch (Greench?) character last Christmas, after coming up with alternative lyrics for many of my beloved Christmas tunes! I love the holiday music and love the concept of parody writing. I've been a creative activist for some time, and putting in lyrics that say something of substance and inspire hope in how we can proceed with the hope for a better future. I was invited to dress up as the Grinch for the Luminarias 2023 and had a couple songs written to present back then, including I'm dreaming of climate solutions (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas), and Rudolf We can still save the planet. During being dressed as the Grinch, being in character as an anti-consumerist attendee of the party, I reminded people to recycle and reuse their gift-wrappers and bring their reusable cups for hot cocoa. I talked to kids about pollinators and garden stuff, and I developed eco Grinch story...
Based on Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" So here's a story I created to read at the Luminarias park event for children, sharing tips on having a sustainable Christmas in 2024.
How the ECO Greench Fixed Christmas!
The eco-grinch loves Christmas, and the joy of the season,
What they do not like is wastefulness and there’s many a reason
It could be that they feel bad for the workers and their toils,
When the greedy guy up top takes all of the spoils.
It could be that they like the weather better when the weather is better,
Not when there’s thousand year storms that make some places wetter,
And some places and drier and some places are being bombed,
And the Eco Grinch just wants us all to be a little bit alarmed.
Enough to take some action perhaps join a climate club,
Perhaps do some volunteer work and let your heart grow with love,
Why the eco-grinch loves Christmas when its about the family and the cheer,
But it kinda really sucks that there’s 250,000 climate attributed deaths each year
(alternative less dark fact: 92million tonnes of clothing waste year)
And don’t get me started on toys, and the plastic that disrupts the health of girls and boys!
We can be different now that we know, solutions are easy we just need to let nature grow!
So do you what you can this time to reduce your own footprint, and organize to fight the lies,
Maybe we’ll put it all in print!
Talk about it at the dinner table, be assertive and at peace,
Extinction may be upon us let’s prevent this apocalypse.
So the Eco Grinch tries to fix Christmas and spread awareness all about
These systems got us extracting way too fast we’re gonna reach burnout!
Take some rest and be mindful, and listen to your soul
What do you really need this Christmas? Certainly not coal!
Let’s be nice to the planet, not naughty with our stuff!
What mine is yours in community- times might get a little tough
But I’ve got some climate hope for you, here in this bright native park
We’ll get organized and meet our needs and your soul with find its spark! <3
Enjoy some of my "Professionally" recorded songs :P Thanks German Rosas Acosta for helping me! <3 forever in solidarity... Together's how we build it!
Angels we have heard on high (Changes we must make or die)
Changes we must make or die ,
Let’s have a just transition day
When the earth no longer cries,
Fossil fuels our mothers slay…
-change live another day ain’t no fucking way we can keep on doing this..)
We need just transition …
Mooooooooore community ...together’s how we build it
Moooooooooore solidarity) ... together’s how we build it ..up
Compost, thrift and do the switch, Chose solar for your desert house,
Recycle water to your yard, plant brocoli , kale and chard!
Mooooooooooooooooooooooore solidarity, (X2) together we transition …. to green!
(https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDXew6kpz7m/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== ) Live performance with Jess Kaps on Guitar!
Have a holly jolly Green Christmas
Don’t forget about the climate
When you go out and shop
Don’t know why but we ain’t tried to get the greed to stop
They’re polluting still our planet, selling us their corporate goods,
I tell you you’ve got enough, all you need is family and foods!
Oh no there’s still more coal, we’ve hit the 2 degrees,
our suns so powerful renewables a breeze!
So join the climate movement if you liked this rebels song,
we don’t know if there’ll be snow, but the scientists ain’t wrong!
So join Eco El Paso, come with us and plant some trees,
once you see the cool fung-eyes) you’ll be composting with ease!
ho ho you’ve got to know, how to find all that you need,
community is here for you- we’ll help you plant the seeds!
So have a really nice green Christmas, don’t forget what its-all about
, join the team so we can all live free! and help prevent the drought!
Oh holy- Eco night:
Oh holy night the fires are brightly burning,
The trees ignite following the drought,
Large was the storm that fell upon Virginia, it was foretold, there’ll be more chaos to come!
but we can change our economic system,
for young and old, To live upon this earth,
Change what we know, Let nature lead the way now!
To live, to love, on this earth our only home
The earth the earth, our earth so cool
Oh holy night, the flares are brightly burning,
pollution seeps from the plastics and the food
Our time has come to rid us of the fossils, they do belong in museums and in the ground,
So we’ll evolve, and use the renewable energy,
for years to come, we’ll reduce the heat effect,
FALL On your knees look up and feel the sun shine
Oh light! Oh light! Electricity galore!
O light O light! Oh earth our only home!
I wish to have all the little green Friends, Oscar the Grouch, Especially Yoda, and kermit the frog. All green little things are wise (or magnificent and Green if you know Elpheba!).
More coming soon! See my tiktok chanel! I also had a fun time just Being Myself as dressed up as Ecogrinch. I was able to Participate in Karaoke
NEW SONG! you're a Green one- Eco Grinch!
Waiting to do a BETTER recording, until I hear some feedback on which lyrics are too wierd. Mostly the whole lyrics are weird even in the original (...wouldn't touch you with a thirty nine and half foot pole?? Ok so the gibes are absurdist. Got it :) )
You’re a green one, eco grinch
You really are so weird
You get cuddly with a cactus, and you’re growing out your beard, eco grinch
You like those bad bananas into the compost disappeared!
You’re a thrifter mister grinch
You like to patch those holes
You’re closet’s full of crafting you fill with hope your soul ECO grinch
I wouldn’t think we can solve the climate crisis if your songs were not so droll :P
You’re a little crazy , eco grinch
What do you mean we should divest?
Ill support the just transition or put on a yellow vest, eco grinch?
I heard you about the shopping, but its not my fault heats at its crest eco grinch…
I think now that I’m learning more about alternative systems I’ll be open to listening- ill do my best!
You’re a green one, ecogrinch
Unlike greenwashed Exon
I cant you're authentic on this journey that your on, (ECOGRINCH!)
How do you see eco solutions being implemented without letting people be withdrawn..
You recycle , Eco- grinch
You sort your garbage well!
I would really like to subsidize recycling support if can’t you tell, eco grinch!?
Its imperative we switch our systems away from chemical needy monocrops to live a more sustainable lifestyle.!
What a nice garden ecogrinch,
Its clear your thumb is green,
You know what plants are medicine and which ones work well in a team!!
The three words id use to describe you are as follow- ecological, sustainable, antifascist! (anticapitalist)
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