Thursday, September 28, 2006

Songs for EE in US Congress?

Will Anti-Nuker John Hall Rock The Congress?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00226.htm
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
Rock Star and long-time environmental activist John Hall just won the Democratic primary in an ... As part of MUSE, Hall co-authored the song "Power," an anthem to ...

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

New reference

“Share the Music” Curriculum Grade 3 UNIT 1: Lesson 1 ...
www.lakesidelosgatos.org/musart/music/11sample3.pdf
Environmental song. • Objective: Create movements to demonstrate contrasting
sections. o Write down things that endanger the planet. o Share with class ...

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Songs for EE on the Web September 7, 2006

Bruce Cockburn: Telling the Truth About the Human Condition
www.emagazine.com/view/?3280
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA
... harder to write environmental songs? For me the process has to start with that emotional trigger that I talked about earlier. The new song "Beautiful Creatures ...

The new song "Beautiful Creatures ...Suit Filed Over Paradise Coal-fired Plant in Kentucky
For those who have been singing Prine's "Paradise" for years and may not know the origins...
www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/paradise-coal-07-31-2006.html
Center for Biological Diversity (press release) - Tucson,AZ,USA... tore down Paradise, later memorialized in John Prine’s folk song by the same ... of tons of air pollutants each year that the US Environmental Protection Agency ...

Back To Cool (songs for EE, sort of...)
MTV and Campus Climate Challenge have partnered up to reward college and high-school students for efforts to fight global warming on campus. Tune into MTV this afternoon for details. Get the scoop in Gristmill. <http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/9/5/154754/2745?source=daily>

Dubai's Nature song gets heard loud and clear
http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Dubai_Summer_Surprises/10057493.html
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Dubai: Organised by the Dubai Police, the Nature Surprises week managed to raise awareness in children about the environment that we live in, a statement by ...

Songs for EE in the News, September 6, 2006

Mostly about rockers and their environmental sympathies...
(Note that URLS are added as links for those who don't have html email).

Teaching Environmental Conservation: The Petronas Way
www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=213769
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia... In the early 1990s, pop star Zainal Abidin (http://www.zainalabidin.com/home.html) sang "Hijau" or literally, "Green", a big hit in the local music scene then.Yet it was more than a song. ... Our World programme will ensure the youngsters of today have the knowledge and understanding of the environmental issues that will ...

Rock's green days
www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-08-10-green-rock_x.htm?POE=TECISVA
USA Today - USA... Joan Jett is on stage belting out an anthemic song from her new album, singing ... dozens of rock bands are doing more than just singing about environmental causes ...

Live Review: Melissa Etheridge in TO
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/08/14/1753474.htmlJam!
Showbiz - Canada... She talked about environmental responsibility and how she converted her tour buses to run on biodiesel, leading into I Need To Wake Up, the song she wrote for ...

The journey continues
www.vaildaily.com/article/20060814/AE/108140043
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA... In 1984, Cockburn produced the hit song, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher," with ... rock sound, and his political agenda was weighted toward environmental concerns, as ...

STARS TEAM UP FOR GREENPEACE
www.pr-inside.com/stars-team-up-for-greenpeace-r17412.htm
PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria... to write a song in celebration of eco-warriers Greenpeace. The track will be recorded on 9 September (06) at Sir in Hollywood, in honour of the environmental ...

Friday, September 01, 2006

Global warming and gerbils

From: Nancy Schimmel global warming and gerbils
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:32:11 -0700

Inspired by this article from Grist (online environmental zine) Is It Frogs Next, or Locusts? Warmer climate could lead to increased bubonic plague Ever feel like we live in End Times? Well, you may be right. Apparently, in coming years we can expect more bubonic plague -- yes, plague, as in "bring out your dead!"

Researchers publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that a rise of just 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the springtime temperature led to a 59 percent increase in plague prevalence (currently, up to 3,000 cases are reported each year around the world). The researchers focused their study in Kazakhstan, where the primary host of the plague is the great gerbil (no, really). The gerbils carry fleas, which carry the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes the plague, which gets transmitted to humans by the fleas. Yersinia likely triggered both the Black Death, which killed more than 20 million people in the Middle Ages, and a 19th century pandemic in Asia that killed tens of millions. Depressingly, both outbreaks occurred during warm, wet climatic periods. Hmm, warm, wet climate ... sounds familiar. If you need us, we'll be in the bunker, hiding from the gerbils.

I have written this parody:
Is It Frogs Next, or Locusts?
Tune: Traditional (She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain)
New words by Nancy Schimmel

She’ll be coming out of Asia when she comes.
She’ll be coming out of Asia when she comes.
Oh she rides upon the gerbil And her wrath is something ter’ble,
She’ll be coming out of Asia when she comes.

Nobody wants to meet her when she comes.
Nobody wants to meet her when she comes.
Although we do expect ’er, The great gerbil is the vector,
Nobody wants to meet her when she comes.

She’ll be riding lots of fleases when she comes.
She’ll be riding lots of fleases when she comes.
Now the fleas like global warming, On the gerbils they are swarming,
She’ll be riding lots of fleases when she comes.

Once she decimated Europe, here she comes!
Then she decimated Asia, here she comes!
Well, she goes by many handles And there’s no use burning candles,
She’s iconic and bubonic, here she comes!


Sun, sun, shine on me, Sunbeam's warm and sunbeam's free. Put solar panels in your path, And I'll have sunshine in my bath... Sun Sun Shine and other recordings and books by Nancy Schimmel, Malvina Reynolds, Candy Forest and Fran Avni at www.sisterschoice.com Berkeley, California

Sun, sun, shine on me, Sunbeam's warm and sunbeam's free. Put solar panels in your path, And I'll have sunshine in my bath... Sun Sun Shine and other recordings and books by Nancy Schimmel, Malvina Reynolds, Candy Forest and Fran Avni at www.sisterschoice.com Berkeley, California