Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz founded Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education (https://irthlingz.org) in 2002 to engage, inspire and empower people of all ages to become stewards of the Earth. They’ve brought their music to many environmental events and conferences, including the Seattle Green Festival, World Environment Day in San Francisco, and World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa. They also work with students and adults in their community on Orcas Island in Washington State, providing in-classroom projects on subjects like stormwater runoff and providing music for Earth Day celebrations.

They satisfied New York State academic standards for science to bring their interactive musical environmental show Turn the World Upside Down into the NYC public schools, through the Brooklyn Arts Council. In 2007, their climate change musical revue, Penguins on Thin Ice, (https://PenguinsOnThinIce.com) was performed by high school students at the United Nations for the Commission on Sustainable Development. In 2011, Sharon received the “Spirit of Nature, Ecology & Society” Environmental Justice Award at City University of New York for her presentation of her one-woman musical show about climate change, The Climate Monologues. (https://ClimateMonologues.com) She performed The Climate Monologues show in the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, the United Solo Theatre Festival in New York, and the MarshStream online theatre festival.

In 2018, Michael received a recommendation from the National Science Teachers Association for his book, The Meltese Dodo, (https://MelteseDodo.com) a history of climate change science told through a loose parody of The Maltese Falcon.

In years past, Sharon has presented at the NAAEE conferences in Wichita, KS and Buffalo, NY.

Most recently, Sharon and Michael have been focusing their energy on Regenerative Economics and educating the public about the climate impacts of war, working with members of the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis & Militarism Project.