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Reunion Tour
Live Earth is back, so get ready to rock |
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28 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:02 AM on 28 Apr 2008 Mark your calendars for Oct. 5: Live Earth is back and ready to rock. Kevin Wall, founder of last summer's international concert extravaganza, says that the October shows will be held on U.S. college campuses, and the focus will be on pushing the presidential candidates to address environmental issues. Locations, bands, and all other specifics are yet to be determined, but will Dreamy Al be involved again? Sa ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, green living, music, news (all these topics) |
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The Midem Touch
Live Earth will be honored with music industry green award |
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03 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:46 PM on 03 Jan 2008 Midem, an annual international trade show for the music industry, has created a new green award that it will bestow upon Live Earth later this month in Cannes, France -- because Al Gore can never have too many awards. Also honored will be Denmark's Roskilde Festival, which serves all drinks in returnable plastic mugs, and Switzerland's Paléo Festival Nyon, which is powered entirely by win ... |
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| Topics: green living, music, news (all these topics) |
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Where the Streets Have No Name -- But the Skyscrapers Do
Environmentalists upset over Dublin's planned U2 Tower |
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05 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:14 AM on 05 Dec 2007 Bono and his fellow U2-ers are stuck in a melee (and they can't get out of it) over a plan to construct a skyscraper in band members' native Dublin. The tower, monikered U2 Tower in the name of self-love, would be the highest building in Ireland. Ian Lumley of heritage group An Taisce says the building is not the sweetest thing -- it would "be an ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, Ireland, music, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt
Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive |
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12 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive We've been looking for an excuse to mention the Spice Girls reunion since it was announced two weeks ago, and we've finally got one. It seems that -- brace yourself -- the group's world tour will not be eco-friendly. In fact, each Girl will get a private Lear j ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change impacts, green living, music, news, travel (all these topics) |
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The Day the Music Lied?
Live Earth reaches an estimated 2 billion, critics harp on hypocrisy |
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09 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| The Day the Music Lied? Live Earth reaches an estimated 2 billion, critics harp on hypocrisy By all accounts, Live Earth (perhaps you've heard of it?) was a smashing success. Organizers say the shows reached about 2 billion people in 130 countries. More than 150 musical acts crooned, and supporters held more than 10,000 registered "fringe events" in addition to the main concerts on every continent. A ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, green living, music, news (all these topics) |
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Have We Mentioned This Big Climate Concert?
Live Earth concerts set to rock the world tomorrow |
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06 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Have We Mentioned This Big Climate Concert? Live Earth concerts set to rock the world tomorrow Tomorrow, tomorrow ... Gore loves ya, tomorrow. Live Earth, the much-anticipated event dreamed up by the former veep, will rock 7/7/07 with 24 hours of concerts to raise climate awareness. A total audience of some 2 billion will see Jack Johnson in Sydney, The Police reunited in New Joisey, Madonna in London, or the ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, green living, music, news (all these topics) |
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And I Am a Recycled-Material Girl
Madonna releases single to support Live Earth climate efforts |
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18 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| And I Am a Recycled-Material Girl Madonna releases single to support Live Earth climate efforts What is it about climate change that makes music ... suck? First we had Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up," the earnest, Oscar-winning Inconvenient Truth anthem. Now we have Madonna's "Hey You," a somnolent single released this week in conjunction with Live Earth, the continents-spanning climate-awareness conce ... |
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The Hill's Not Alive With the Sound of Music
Gore climate concert kicked off of Capitol grounds |
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30 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| The Hill's Not Alive With the Sound of Music Gore climate concert kicked off of Capitol grounds In a decision that sent discordant music wafting toward Al Gore's ears, a group of Republican senators has put the kibosh on using the Capitol grounds for a gigantic climate-change-awareness concert this summer. The group -- led, not surprisingly, by climate skep ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, James Inhofe, music, news, politics (all these topics) |
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