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  And then some

  Local artists, definitely (not quite pop culture though....).

  Jack Johnson has some great lyrics in "Staple it Together"

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  It's really too bad
  He became a prisoner of his own past...
  It's really no good
  He's moving on before he understood
  He shot the future in the foot with every step he took
  From the places that he's been because he forgot to look

  He better staple it together and call it bad weather

  ...If the weather gets better we should get together
  ...And if we get together we'd be twice as clever
  So staple it together and call it bad weather

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  I am not sure what he meant when he wrote it but I guess it depends on how you interpret it.

  This one is about air pollution etc. in general, also by Jack Johnson, called "Traffic in the Sky"

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  There's traffic in the sky
  and it doesn't seem to be getting much better
  There's kids playing games on the pavement
  Drawing waves on the pavement
  Shadows of the planes on the pavement

  It's enough to make me cry
  But that don't seem like it would make it feel better
  Maybe it's a dream and if I scream
  it will burst at the seams and
  this whole place will fall into pieces
  and then they'd say...

  Well how could we have known?
  I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell
  if you keep adding stones
  soon the water will be lost in the well

  Puzzle pieces in the ground
  but no one ever seems to be digging
  Instead they're looking up towards the heavens
  with their eyes on the heavens
  the shadows on the way to the heavens

  It's enough to make me cry
  but that don't seem like it would make it feel better
  The answers could be found
  we could learn from digging down
  but no one ever seems to be digging
  instead they'll say...

  Well how could we have known?
  I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell
  if you keep adding stones
  soon the water will be lost in the well

  Words of wisdom all around
  but no one ever seems to listen
  They talk about their plans on the paper
  Building up from the pavement
  there're shadows from the scrapers on the pavement

  It's enough to make me sigh
  but that don't seem like it would make it feel better
  The words are all around
  but the words are only sounds
  and no one ever seems to listen
  Instead they'll say...

  Well how could we have known?
  I'll tell them it's really not so hard to tell
  If you keep adding stones
  soon the water will be lost in the well
  lost in the well
  On Pop songs about global warming posted 3 years, 8 months ago 13 Responses

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  Canadian Campuses coming up...

  The Sierra Youth Coalition (of Canada) runs an awesome Sustainable Campuses program -  with regional coordinators across the country working with students to make their campuses more sustainable.

  There are over 30 campuses involved in this initiative across the country, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and evaluating the sustainability of campus so they can create longterm change.

  Sierra Youth Coalition is also a part of a larger network across Canada & the USA called Energy Action.  www.energyaction.net

  This group has a large initiative called Campus Climate Challenge, focused directly on decreasing greenhouse gas emmissions on campus.

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  It's great to be a part of a generation that "gets it".On Campuses across the country turn to renewable energy posted 3 years, 8 months ago 3 Responses