Axis Note: Pete Seeger is 93 years old now. One visitor on youtube wrote the following after listening to his music and comments on Optimism, Stabilization and the Internet:

"Half way through this video I could hear water hitting the ground outside my window. I look out and sure enough its lightly raining. I let the video finish and I went outside, the sun is just as bright as its been all summer and not a dark cloud in the sky. I was barefoot and the concrete was hot and its 102 outside but the rain gave me chills. I just thought that was a beautiful thing to happen while watching this video. I'm thankful that I get to share this Earth with Pete Seeger." 

Pete Seeger recently sat down in his home on a Hudson Valley hilltop for an interview with Andrew Blechman of Orion Magazine (and with Dot Earth there to tape the proceedings). Here's the main question Blechman asked: "We 're trying to ask people to come up with some thing, a noun, that we'll need for the next 30 years in order to survive on the planet and to flourish and to live with some form of grace.

About Pete (from Wikipedia)

Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.[1] Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes.

As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with Joe Hickerson), "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964, and The Seekers in 1966. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS "American Masters" episode Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Seeger states it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome".