Environmentally Sound Promotions

Darryl Cherney here, founder and CEO of the non-profit Environmentally Sound Promotions (501c3 since 1999). I've got a 24' double steel hulled storage unit with 15 file cabinets worth of paper and photographic archives that need to be organized so that researchers and writers can have access. And there's a few hundred reel to reel tapes and cassettes of music, poetry and interviews--both 45 years of mine and our Earth First! friends that need to be uploaded and preserved on soundcloud. I've got a great organizer (Nicole Devine) lined up 150 hours @$20/hr. to get this in presentable shape.

Some examples of rare recordings I have include the late Earth First! poet Matthew Hahn, who's album I produced before he died in a hiking accident. I've got Robert Parker singing "Me and Julia Up in the Tree Sit" at a Butterfly Rally in 1999 and other rarities. Of course, there's a fair amount of Judi Bari and my own recordings that date back over 35 years. The paper archives I have include hundreds of Headwaters news articles, photos, posters, press releases and much more.

I've personally spent well over $8000 getting the high end, insulated 24' container here, with all the files put in. And I've set up the digitizing studio in an RV I renovated and modified for this purpose. But it's too much for me to do alone and I don't have the funds to pay someone. Your donation is tax deductable.

Environmentally Sound Promotions motto and mission is "Music, Arts, and Media for the Earth." Founded in 1999, we produce events, music and spoken word albums, literature, and more to benefit causes including environmental protection, ailing activists and their families, and other good causes. Projects have included Forest Aid concerts with Bill Graham Presents (1996-2000); Remembering Judi Bari exhibit at the Mendocino County Museum (2021); Who Bombed Judi Bari? CD for Alternative Tentacles Records (1999, commissioned by Jello Biafra); benefits for the ailing Joules Graves (with MS), and Jackie Panteleo and Doug Green (both with cancer who have since passed); The Headwaters Forest Coloring Book; various local town hall meetings on local issues, and more.