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The Wonder Down Under
Aussie musician Xavier Rudd chats about coming to America and greening his tour |
Sarah van Schagen |
15 Feb 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Xavier Rudd. Photo: James Looker When Australian musician Xavier Rudd was 10 years old, he realized that he could reuse an old vacuum-cleaner hose as a didgeridoo. Talk about a career rooted in green values. Since then, Rudd has moved on from vacuum-cleaner hoses to guitars, harmonicas, banjos, lapsteels, and even real didgeridoos -- but his environmental ethi ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, ecological footprint, green living, music (all these topics) |
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The sound of one awards show greening
Grammys go green(ish) |
Sarah van Schagen |
11 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Between a late-night dinner with a friend and finally watching Thursday's taped episode of Lost, I caught about five minutes of last night's Grammy Awards show (the five minutes of Brad Paisley singing "I'd like to check you for ticks ..." -- a strangely compelling song). But I was pleased this morning to see that the Grammys celebrated their 50th anniversary by going green for the first time. By partnering with the NRDC and others, the Recording Academy ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, music, TV (all these topics) |
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On the road again?
Radiohead's Thom Yorke on carbon-heavy touring |
Sarah van Schagen |
09 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Wired this month features an interesting conversation between Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and musician David Byrne. In it, Yorke, a longtime vegan whose 2006 solo effort focused on global warming, mentions his carbon-related guilt about touring. Here's the relevant clip: Yorke: ... [At] the moment we make money principally from touring. Which is hard for me to reconcile because I don't like all the energy consumption, the travel. It's an ecological disaster, t ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, energy, green living, music (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 |
News |
| 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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Rockin' in a green world
Top green music stories of 2007 |
Sarah van Schagen |
20 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here are the Official Top Green Music Stories of 2007, listed in very particular order and determined via a very scientific process (a combination of my memory and Grist's archives): 5. Sheryl Crow proposes a one-square limit on toilet-paper use; TP-users fail to get joke. 4. Oscar awarded to Inconvenient Truth's eco-song. 3. Industry-wide search for eco-song-that-doesn't-suck continues. 2. Summer music festivals go for green, while festival-goers smoke ... |
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| Topics: green living, music (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 |
News |
| 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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Franti Up
Reggae artist Michael Franti lets loose on inspiring social change |
Sarah van Schagen |
12 Oct 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| Michael Franti. Photo: anti.com/Megan Gentile "Everyone deserves music, sweet music," Michael Franti sings in the title track from a 2003 album. The man behind Michael Franti & Spearhead -- a band that blends hip-hop with jazz, folk, and funk music -- also believes that everyone deserves health care, social justice, and a sustainable planet. And he makes sure you know it -- ... |
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| Topics: green living, music, recycling (all these topics) |
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Bumblingshoot
Trash bins overflow with plastic bottles at the 'green' Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival |
JMG |
04 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| They won't hear the message over the sound of your actions. |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, music, recycling (all these topics) |
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Let it all out
Complaints Choir looking for members |
Kate Sheppard |
16 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Got good chords? Got stuff to bitch about? The first official U.S.-based Complaints Choir is forming in Chicago, and they'll be debuting on Nov. 3. The Complaints Choir is performance art -- people send in their complaints about life, the world, the environment, whatever's pissing them off, and then everyone gets together and makes a song out of them. Think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for cynics, or at least people who are fed up with all the crap. A lot of the comp ... |
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| Topics: green living, music (all these topics) |
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The Ditty Bops
A green band that's really green |
Adam Browning |
13 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Last week, headed to the Lanesplitter for a Tune-Up, quite by accident I ended up seeing the Ditty Bops at the Freight and Salvage.I'm glad I did. The music was sweet and smart and catchy. But music aside, the show was eye-opening. Bono, step aside: Here's the new standard for what it means for musicians to engage in activism. At Vote Solar, we are periodically invited to table at shows where big name acts have decided to incorporate an activism component to ... |
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| Topics: green living, music (all these topics) |
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Black-eyed Peas: Live Earth edition
Their eco-song doesn't suck. Too much |
Sarah van Schagen |
27 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I have been remiss in my music-related reportage, and I apologize. I had heard prior to Live Earth (which was three weeks ago) that, like Madonna, the Black-eyed Peas would be writing a song specifically for the spectacle. But I never updated you as to how that worked out. Then, today, thanks to my "media hound" colleague, I found out that unlike Madonna's song, this one does not suck. As much. Check out the video for "SOS" here. |
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| Topics: climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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NASA's Hansen on Live Earth, Gore, and coal
It's all about coal |
Joseph Romm |
25 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| More from James Hansen's email: I was invited to go on stage at "Live Earth" at the Meadowlands, between Jon Bon Jovi and Smashing Pumpkins performances. I agreed to this, on the condition that I could bring my grandchildren, Sophie and Connor. I assumed it would be like last year when I appeared with Al Gore before a young audience, with a rather impromptu discussion of global warming. Bad assumption. When I asked "Where's Al?", I was told th ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, green living, James Hansen, music (all these topics) |
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Yes, Virgin, there is a green festival
Virgin Festival 'near-zero waste' for first time |
Sarah van Schagen |
25 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The two-day Virgin music festival next weekend at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore will feature performances by The Police, The Smashing Pumpkins, and the Beastie Boys, as well as some bettin' on the ponies (!) -- but organizers are also gambling on concert-goers to "green it like they mean it" as they plan for a "near-zero waste" event.Certainly, the festival is not treading in virgin territory -- the green music thing has been done. And perhap ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, climate, green living, music, recycling (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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Should we call them Green 5 now?
Pop band Maroon 5 launches 'carbon neutral' tour |
Sarah van Schagen |
12 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Grammy-winning pop quintet Maroon 5 have teamed up with Global Cool to green their upcoming arena tour in support of their sophomore album It Won't Be Soon Before Long.From the press release:Global Cool will work closely with Maroon 5's production team, management, and the boys themselves to reduce the carbon emissions produced by the world tour before offsetting the remaining emissions that cannot be reduced. For its part, Maroon 5 will donate $1.00 for each ticke ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Global warming: That's a rap!
Young rappers say 'peace out' to skeptics |
Sarah van Schagen |
11 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'Glaciers melting, waters rising, sky is storming, global warming!' That's how a rap written by a group of Vermont teens begins. And they hope it ends with local lawmakers taking action on climate change. The students, who call themselves X-10, first drew attention this spring with their rap, '802,' which described life in Vermont. Their video has been viewed more than 123,000 times on YouTube. Instead of 802, they're now rapping about CO2 -- carbon diox ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, music, politics, video (all these topics) |
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Here's a green Ditty for ya
More green musicians |
Kate Sheppard |
11 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| We've gotten tons of emails from people who are all like 'Why didn't my fav band make your '15 Green Musicians and Bands' list, yo?' Most of them are just sorta self-righteous and annoying. But today we got one from the good folks over on Spinner.com that pointed to their own list on the subject, which had some overlap with ours, as well as a few cool additions. Their No. 1 gets extra cool points: The Ditty Bops. As they describe them: To promote their 2006 album ' ... |
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| Topics: bikes, green living, music, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Sure it's 100 in the shade, but man, nice plane!
While planet burns, Boeing scores a PR victory |
JMG |
10 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| At the gym, in between hearing an EMT talk about the heat stroke issues he expects tomorrow, I marveled at how awful news programs were today, devoting huge chunks of time to talking up Boeing's new 'Dreamliner' jet, which the blow-drieds say will consume 20 percent less fuel per mile. I even heard one blow say 'eventually reducing the cost of air travel.' Man, talk about delusional. (Oh, and I know I'm not supposed to connect things like our craze for jet travel and high ... |
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| Topics: air travel, climate, ecological footprint, green living, music, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics) |
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RFK Jr. nails it
Amazing how much honesty a non-candidate can bring! |
JMG |
10 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| From Brad Blog comes this transcript of Robert F. Kennedy's excellent comments at LiveEarth: Now we've all heard the oil industry and the coal industry and their indentured servants in the political process telling us that global climate stability is a luxury that we can't afford. That we have to choose now between economic prosperity on the one hand and environmental protection on the other. And that is a false choice. In 100% of the situations, good environmental po ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, music, politics (all these topics) |
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Live Earth party demographics
Where were younger people at Live Earth house parties? |
Michael Tobis |
09 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Pretty much everyone in attendance at two Austin Live Earth house parties was a boomer. Is grassroots activism still unhip among young people? I was a bit nervous about attending a Live Earth event. At 52, I thought I'd be at least twice the age of most of the people I'd encounter. I needn't have worried. I attended two Live Earth house parties in Austin, Texas, and saw nobody under 30 except the kids of one of the hosts. I looked for online pictures of other ... |
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| Topics: environmental movement, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Relive Live Earth
Again and again |
Sarah van Schagen |
09 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Did you miss out on seeing Live Earth as it happened? Or maybe you saw it all, but just can't get enough? You're in luck! You can relive your favorite performances, your favorite fashion faux pas, and all the Gore-y goodness (hologram or otherwise!) on MSN's Live Earth site.I also recommend checking out the Green Production Blog. This particular entry was quite touching: Overheard At Our Local Coffee Shop ... 25 year old girl talking on her cell phone: "yea ... |
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| Topics: green living, music (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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Alive after Live Earth
Your intrepid Grist correspondent sweats through an arena concert, so you don't have to |
Emily Gertz |
09 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Don't ever say we never did anything for you. On Saturday, while you were cavorting in the surf, grilling organic free-range meat on the barbecue (or is that barbecuing meat on the grill?), or kicking back with a good book in the sweet, sweet air conditioning, Grist was sweating at Live Earth New York. Er, New Jersey. Whatever. We suffered through sets by Ludacris, Melissa Etheridge, Roger Waters, and the Police to report back -- to YOU, dear Grist reader -- from the fr ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Live Earth: Mercy, mercy me
The song still has relevance today |
Sarah van Schagen |
07 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'm watching the Live Earth coverage on NBC, and I've got to say, I'm impressed. It's really well done -- concert highlights intermixed with artist and celeb interviews, and plenty of easy tips on how to take action at home. For those on the East Coast, it's too late -- but West Coasters, tune in!I was struck by two performances -- both of Marvin Gaye's 1971 hit "Mercy, Mercy Me" (one by Alicia Keys in New York and one by John Legend and Corinne Bailey Ra ... |
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| Topics: green living, music (all these topics) |
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On the Shoulders of Giants
A Grist correspondent sweats her way through Live Earth |
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07 Jul 2007 |
Dispatches |
| Emily Gertz reports on environmental issues from her home base in Brooklyn, N.Y. She has written for Grist, BushGreenwatch, The Bear Deluxe, and other independent publications. She contributes to Worldchanging.com, and recently launched OneAtlantic.net: Environmental News & Views for the Atlantic Coast. Saturday, 07 Jul 2007 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. With Live Earth over, Al Gore, Kevin Wall, and their no-doubt- ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, environmental movement, green living, music (all these topics) |
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