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Lookout Film Festival — Audience Favorite — Into the Canyon

Posted bypetermcbride November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 Leave a comment on Lookout Film Festival — Audience Favorite — Into the Canyon

2019

The Big Straw — sipping a river dry — is one big e

The Big Straw — sipping a river dry — is one big event, few know about. People often ask me ‘where we will get the water?’. The Colorado River is facing record low runoff forecasts on the heels of a mega-drought as water managers scramble to find consensus and solutions this year.

Yet roughly 1/3 of the Colorado River flow goes to produce alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia and China. It proves that water does indeed flow up hill and even over seas to money.
And it comes at the cost of a river, as it the most famous Western river runs dry just below the All American Canal that feeds this use. The irony.

Few realize how much water we ship in the form of forage crops — boatloads — while so many river users struggle to figure out how to use less.

The biggest straw on the river is agriculture — and yes we need to eat — but growing water intensive hay crops to feed livestock on the other side of the world with a limited, decreasing water source — is far from a gold medal water use.

If interested to learn more, check out my new book “Witness to Water” (out next month, link in bio) which details my lifelong journey understanding this most loved and litigated river.

#water #ColoradoRiver #WitnesstoWater

📷 #PeteMcBride

New Book Talk Tonight: The hard behind the hard wo

New Book Talk Tonight: The hard behind the hard work. I’ve hung out in a lot of tough, tricky places, doing my best to be positive even when I felt shattered, heatstroked, scared or miserable. My goal was to put myself in interesting places to give a visual voice to the untold stories of our world.
But nothing has been as hard or rewarding as my dedication to one ongoing story — about my backyard river, the Colorado — and writing a narrative non-fiction book about it all. Witness to Water - is yes words only (with just a few photos). 😀

If interested, you can pre-order the book now and hear me talk about some behind the scenes moments from this twenty year journey tonight.

And if you miss the live talk tonight, you can still hear the recording later.

More info in bio link. @hierophantpublishing

#newbook #witnesstowater #water #nature #coloradoriver
📷 @pedromcbride

It is time we as Americans seek a path away from d

It is time we as Americans seek a path away from divisive political mindsets, left vs right, and move back to championing the difference between right and wrong and the moral compass to be a leader around it.

Our democracy is far from perfect. It is a messy 250-year-old social experiment, but it has more potential than many of the systems I’ve experienced around the world in my work. At the end of the day, we are more alike than we are different.

Neighbors and immigrants are not the enemy. Fear and hate are.

#peace

📷 #petemcbride

My family has ranched the Colorado River headwater

My family has ranched the Colorado River headwaters for four generations. I grew up thinking it would always be there.

Twenty years ago, I set out to document this river. I thought I was chasing adventure. I ended up chasing a crisis.

I’ve watched reservoirs shrink, deltas dry up, and communities fight to protect what’s left. This book is everything I’ve learned along the way.

Pre-order Witness to Water and join me for a free live class on January 29th. I’ll share stories and footage from the book and answer your questions. Link in bio.

The quiet contours of Greenland - which are very n

The quiet contours of Greenland - which are very noisy in the news.

From my Seeing Silence book.
#nature #greenland #aerialphotography
📷 #petemcbride

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