Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

April 25, 2007

Earth Day Jeopardy Answers

Here are the answers to the Earth Day Quiz:
(from Environmental Defense)

  1. The American President whose eleven-state conservation tour was a precursor to Earth Day:
    Who is John F. Kennedy?

  2. United States Senator who first proposed Earth Day:
    Who is Gaylord Nelson?

  3. The U.S. city that issued the first Earth Day proclamation:
    What is San Francisco?

  4. Folk singer who was the keynote speaker and performer during the first Earth Day march in Washington D.C.:
    Who is Pete Seeger?

  5. Popular Earth Day slogan sung during the first Earth Day march
    What is "All we are saying is give Earth a chance?"

  6. Presently, the number of countries that celebrate Earth Day:
    What is 140?

How many did you know?

April 21, 2007

Earth Day Jeopardy!

With a music history flair!

From Environmental Defense:

Earth Day Jeopardy

  1. The American President whose eleven-state conservation tour was a precursor to Earth Day...

  2. United States Senator who first proposed Earth Day...

  3. The U.S. city that issued the first Earth Day proclamation...

  4. Folk singer who was the keynote speaker and performer during the first Earth Day march in Washington D.C....

  5. Popular Earth Day slogan sung during the first Earth Day march...

  6. Presently, the number of countries that celebrate Earth Day...

Submit answers via the comments and we'll see who is the most Earth-friendly, musically and politically savvy one of ya out there. Enjoy!

April 8, 2007

Near Death of the President



Ford President Alan Mulally, right, had to be quick on his feet to make sure President Bush plugged a power cord into the right socket on a Ford hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/AUTO01/704070338/1148

We nearly lost the leader of this country because of self immolation.


Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week.


As Mulally told reporters:

"I just thought, 'Oh my goodness!' So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally said. "I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen.

February 15, 2007

More on the concert to end global warming.

Detailing a historic effort to engage billions of people across the globe, Kevin Wall, Al Gore, Pharrell Williams, Cameron Diaz, and the MSN Network today launched Save Our Selves (SOS) - The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis. The announcement was made at the California Science Center.

SOS is designed to trigger a global movement to combat our climate crisis. It will reach people in every corner of the planet through television, film, radio, the Internet and Live Earth, a 24-hour concert on 7/7/07 across all 7 continents that will bring together more than 100 of the world's top musical acts.

People can go to http://liveearth.msn.com and begin participating in the global movement, and on 7/7/07, to watch the Live Earth concerts.

25 Bands were announced today:

Announced today:
Pharrell
Duran Duran
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Snow Patrol
Foo Fighters
John Legend
Snoop Dogg
Black Eyed Peas
Lenny Kravitz
Akon
Bon Jovi
Enrique Iglesias
Paolo Nutini
Fall Out Boy
Sheryl Crow
Mana
AFI
Keane
Melissa Etheridge
Kelly Clarkson
John Mayer
Korn
Damien Rice
Faith Hill w/ Tim McGraw
Corrine Bailey Rae
Bloc Party

How about that for an amazing line up? And that's just a quarter of who is perfoming.

Source: Press Release by Save Our Selves (SOS) - The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis

January 30, 2007

Green is the color of cool

Since we're all about music and activism here at AtD, we try to highlight whenever there is some serious rocking for a good cause, like this one (from NME):

Perry Farrell, John Densmore of The Doors and actor Josh Hartnett helped launch the Global Cool campaign today at simultaneous press conferences in Los Angeles and London.

These artists join a host of others including Kasabian, The Killers, KT Tunstall and Scissor Sisters who are involved in promoting Global Cool's mission to "save the planet" by encouraging individuals to reduce their carbon emissions by 10 billion tons over 10 years.
A bold goal. How exactly can we go about it?
Global Cool encourages individuals to reduce their energy consumption by doing simple things each day such as turning out lights, unplugging mobile phone chargers, and turning down heating by one degree.

"A little done by a lot of people adds up to a hell of a lot," said Global Cool CEO Julian Knight.
Hit up Global-Cool.com for a whole lot more, including a slew of creative ways you too can be cool.

Meanwhile, for you college types think.mtv wants you to break the addiction. Participate in the Campus Climate Challenge to win a 100% clean energy policy at your school. And there are more reasons to get involved than just to meet cool people and do good work. MTV is offering big rewards for individuals and schools that rise up to the challenge. The grand prize is an MTV eco-renovation of your school’s student lounge or other hang space valued at up to $10,000.

MTV also has a feature which let's you see how green your campus is, along with a ton of info, resources, and an even an eco-action center. So what are you waiting for? The planet can't wait for us, so let's do what needs to be done right now before it's too late.