sorry i'm not into the LIVE EARTH madness..I think its really because I don't have cable anymore. =( Not having cable is like being away from the rest of the world....from mtv. but I believe its airing today. since right now is 12:20 am. yes, today but i don't know if its in NEW JERSEY or DC. well its certainly happening and MTV is covering it so if you have MTV, then you've deffo heart about it and you'll probably catch the performances on tv. There are some big name artists performing.
This site has awesome videos. My fav is the one of the polar bears..its quite funny but then it also makes you sad. There are also other great videos. This too is a part of LIVE EARTH.
click here or copy paste this link.
http://entimg.msn.com/i/LiveEarth/player/altplayer/q.html?StreamName=US.smi
I hope all of you watch it!
Friday, July 6, 2007
live earth madness
LIVE EARTH worldwide concerts
Live Earth kicks off in Australia
Madonna, The Police among artists to perform at event for climate change
SYDNEY, Australia - The Live Earth global concert series kicked off Saturday with a digeridoo-backed Aboriginal group dancing and singing a traditional welcome at the first venue in Sydney.
Tribal leaders with white-painted bodies and shaking eucalyptus fronds were the first of more than 150 performers at the nine, concert, 24-hour series to raise awareness about climate change.
The performance was immediately followed by a video greeting from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose campaign to force global warming onto the international political agenda inspired the event.
Gore invited the crowd — which appeared to be several hundred when the show started at 11 a.m. and scattered throughout the sporting stadium arena — to take Live Earth’s seven-point pledge to reduce their personal environmental impact and support policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Thank you for coming today and thank you for being the very first to launch this movement to help solve the climate crisis,” Gore said, standing before the Capital building in Washington. “Enjoy the show.”
Acts big and small
Problems and changes to the series continued right down to the last minute, with a ninth concert — in Washington, D.C. — added on Friday and a court battle continuing in Brazil to decide whether the show there could go ahead as planned.
Critics say that it lacks achievable goals, and that bringing in jet-setting rock stars in fuel-guzzling airliners to plug in to amplifier stacks and cranking up the sound may send mixed messages about energy conservation.
“The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert,” The Who’s singer Roger Daltrey recently told a British newspaper.
Concerts strive for ‘green’
Organizers say the concerts will be as green as possible, with a tally of energy use being kept. Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward distributing power-efficient light bulbs and other measures that will offset the shows’ greenhouse gas emissions, they say.
And it is beyond time to do so, she explained.
“Climate change is visible today, we can see that now. And if you can talk to farmers they will tell you that their crops that they are harvesting are not the same as before. That for me is a wake-up call because if we cannot eat, we cannot sustain ourselves. We don’t eat cameras, we don’t eat cars, we eat food.”
More than 150 artists will perform at the nine concerts. Rolling west through Saturday, the series starts in Sydney, then Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Hamburg, London, Rio de Janeiro, New Jersey and Washington.