"Saving the Whales" Video and Picture Credits

For more about the song and why I wrote it, see my blog post: New single: “Saving the Whales” (Saving the Humans!). The song can be purchased at cdbaby and on iTunes or streamed on numerous sites. Pictures by Jack Oates used with permission. All other pictures (except mine) are published under the creative commons license on flickr. Attribution and links (in order of appearance in video):

• My children taking pictures of the Seattle skyline, Katie Oates, 2014 (For my family to get together at Thanksgiving 3 of us flew across the country, 2 of us drove 8 hours, and 1 took a bus for 8 hours: high use of gas and oil...).
• My computer and plasma tv, Katie Oates, 2015 Computers and tvs use lots of energy. In NC, unless you are "off-grid," energy can only be bought through one regulated utility [Duke Energy in my case], so I have an agreement with Arcadia Power to buy the equivalent of my home energy usage in renewable wind energy.
• My website entry of "Saving the Whales", Katie Oates, 2015. My website server host (1and1) uses green energy and employs energy efficient practices, but much of the energy I and others use is not renewable.
• "King of the Trash Hill" Buckhorn Mesa Landfill, 2013, by Alan Levine, 2013
• “Polluted Earth” Hudson Park, New York, 2007, by Vincent
•  "Friends of Coal", 2006, by Noricum
• "Mountaintop Removal Mine above Homes in Eastern Kentucky", Pike County Kentucky 2010, by Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices
• "Runoff From ‘Reclaimed’ Mountaintop Removal Mine in Kentucky" Magoffin County Kentrucky 2010, by Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices
• “Coal Mining in Brazil” Criseluna, Santa Catarina 2011 by United Nations photographer Sebastiao Barbosa
• "Coal Fired Power Plant" Pacific Corp/Rocky Mountain Power near Price, Utah burning coal mined nearby in Eccles Canyon, 2009, by ArbyReed
• "Gathering" (birds at shopping center), 2011, by Nicholas A Tonelli
• “A creek runs under it. Somewhere.” 2012, by Washington State Dept of Transportation Scatter Creek Bridge near Enumclaw, WA, In 2014 as part of a seismic retrofit to a bridge, the concrete and rebar from the prior bridge that had collapsed in 1965 was finally removed from the stream.
• "Whales!" Orcas in Victoria, British Columbia, 2011, by BohemianDolls
• "Mountaintop Removal, Wise County, Virginia", 2011, by Universal Pops
• Centennial Mountains, Idaho-Montana border 2010 by Jack Oates
• Family on boardwalk at Pacific Beach, California by Jack Oates 2015
• “Paved Paradise”, 2009, California by fishfoot
• "The San Ardo Oil Field From the Coast Starlight", 2009, California by Loco Steve
•  "Why East Kentucky Kids Use Orange Crayons to Draw Streams" Magoffin County Kentucky, 2010 by Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices
• "Water pollution in China" 2009, Inner Mongolia by Bert van Dijk
• Pelican on Madison River near Ennis, Montana, 2014, by Jack Oates
• Pelicans taking flight at Pacific Beach, California by Jack Oates 2015
• Fish at Birch Aquarium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California by Jack Oates 2015
• Gull on sand at Pacific Beach by Jack Oates 2015
• Cedar waxwing, Missoula, Montana by Jack Oates, 2009
• Sunset at Pacific Beach by Jack Oates, 2015
• Sunset at Pacific Beach by Jack Oates, 2015
• Mountain Range in St George, Utah by Jack Oates, 2015
• "Hump Back Whale, South Island, New Zealand" 2007 by Gemma Louise Lowe
• My children, 2000, at Pawleys Island, SC by Katie Oates