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Popster Miley Cyrus pens 'eco-anthem'

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Fifteen-year-old Disney pop starlet Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) wants America to wake up and deal with global warming ... though she's not quite sure what that means. At least, that's what she admits in a song -- dubbed an 'eco-anthem' by some, though I'm curious what qualifies it as an anthem -- on her new release Breakout."

Songs for EE in the News (July 21)

Eaton Bank goes green
Congleton Guardian - Congleton,Cheshire,UK
Prior to the event, a number of students were responsible for writing the school`s own Eco song which was recorded by all students in Years 7, 8 and 9. ...
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Natalie Portman
By noreply@blogger.com (jopie33)
... which means 'to play'. In 2007, she launched her own brand of vegan footwear. Portman has been an advocate of environmental causes since childhood, when she joined an environmental song and dance troupe known as World Patrol Kids. ...
All Celebs 4U - http://allcelebs.blogspot.com/

Environment and Song July 08

Sarah Harmer among finalists for national honour
Burlington Post - Burlington,ON,Canada
A few years ago she recorded a folk song, Escarpment Blues, which tells the story of a land-use conflict on the escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve ...
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Are You Plugged In?
By rustedrobot
Stoltz tracked his electricity use and with the help of the Green-e program, offset the all the electricity used to record his record with green tags from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. In Kelley’s words: “Using renewable ...
RustedRobot: The Tife & Limes... - http://rustedrobot.com

That’s not punk!
By underground
When do those bands otherwise make a stand an environmental issues? Punk bands have been singing about the environment for decades. It appears as though many musicians jump on the bandwagon, adopting causes in a desperate profit driven ...
Undergroundnetwork - http://undergroundnetwork.wordpress.com

Dancing to save the planet: the world’s first sustainable nightclub
Times Online - UK

As I stomped to Amy Winehouse’s version of Valerie (a recycled song!) and the screen told me that “300 million children have no access to health services”, ...

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Songs for EE in the News (July 9)

Festival setting the 'green' standard
MLive.com - MI,USA
The music industry was challenged by Bud Ward, an environmental journalist and Yale University academic about the lack of "green" songs to inspire the ...
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Cobalt takes on shades of green on and off stage
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
"The environment's something we care about individually," Plotsky said. "And we can use the music we love to encourage people to do something about it."
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Kelley Stoltz: California dreamin' of singing songs in Liverpool
Drowned In Sound - London,UK
Environmental concerns clearly weigh heavy on your mind, at least enough to make a point of recording Below The Branches while monitoring electricity use, ...
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Songs for EE in the News, June 2008

Musical star-power unites for Algonquin cause
Kingston This Week - Ontario, Canada
The music comes from a deep commitment to aboriginal rights, social justice and environmental protection. A number of artists wrote songs specifically for ...

Al Gore Fights King Cole With Song
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Having tried, he tells us, to get his point across by every other available means, he has finally settled on "the most powerful weapon on Earth:musical ...
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The minister of culture will see you now
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
A member of the Green Party since the early 1990s, Gil has written many songs about the environment and participated in global meetings about conservation. ...

Kids get friendly with the environment
London Free Press - Canada
By KATHY RUMLESKI Chanting "We will, we will recycle" to the tune of Queen's catchy rock song, about 300 kids watched and heard how cool recycling can be. ...
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Earth Music - Various Artists
By Bob, Brisbane, Australia(Bob, Brisbane, Australia)
Australian artists to be part of the Earth Music Trust, to raise funds for Greening Australia. All Artists donated their times and potential royalties to the project and many of the song writers and publishers as well. ...
Song of the Paddle Forum : :... - http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum

Book Review: This Is Your Brain On Music | KXNet.com North Dakota News
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck - Bismarck,ND,USA
The book is occasionally a little "heady" but then you'll flip the page and he'll bring it all back down to earth by using some Paula Abdul song, ...

MUSIC: Eco-Elvis "Earth Day Rock" from 'Burnin' Globe' (Matt ...
Living on the Earth - Cambridge,MA,USA
RIGGS: Actually, it's – well like with the song "I Reduce, I Reuse, I Recycle," it's kind of a, a phrasing thing. You know it's like, "I Want You, ...
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Celebrate world environment day with song of the earth
India Infoline.com - Mumbay,India
Animal Planet, in its special eight-hour long programme line-up, Song of the Earth: Celebrating World Environment Day will address these critical issues and ...
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Saving The World With A Song
Torontoist - Ontario, Canada
With news of environmental disaster a daily reality, artistic response on the topic couldn’t be more timely. But instead of poe-faced polemics and dour ...
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Who says climate change isn't funny?
Globe and Mail - Canada
Together, they plan to stop Powers by posting an inspirational song on MyFaceTube. An environmental-themed musical about a young rebel falling for the ...

The Waybacks: Loaded, Album Review
By MusicAndArtsBlog(MusicAndArtsBlog)
“Nice to be Alone” is a classic pop song without any hints that the band playing might have been a called a bluegrass band. “Beyond the Northwest Passage” is a sea shanty Celtic tune, which critiques environmental degradation in a salty ...

Children parade through Basseterre to save planet
SKNVibes.com - Basseterre,St. Kitts and Nevis
I heard the Cayon group even chanted their own song to go along with the theme,” said Francis. “Our department has often targeted high schools, ...
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Clearwater announces film competition finalists
Lower Hudson Journal news - West Harrison,NY,USA
The films are mostly music videos - bluesy calls for environmental action and folksy odes to

Faith leaders: People ready to change lifestyles
Salisbury Post - Salisbury,NC,USA
Sleeth said he recently spoke to 2000 elementary students at a school assembly in California, during which they sang several environmental songs with the ...
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MySpace.com - IYPE STUDENTS - NL - Dutch pop - www.myspace.com/iypestudents

MySpace.com - IYPE STUDENTS - NL - Dutch pop - www.myspace.com/iypestudents

Youth copmposed song "Mother Earth" on MySpace.

Songs for EE in the News, late May 2008

Pupils make song and dance over green achievements
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Aberdeen,Scotland,UK
YOUNGSTERS at a north-east primary school are making a song and dance about their latest environmental achievement. Rosehearty School has become one of just ...

A sneak peek at Rothbury music festival
Ludington Daily News - Ludington,MI,USA
The creators of Rothbury hope to spread the word about the world’s growing environmental problems. To lower the event’s own carbon footprint, ...
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China's 'Super Girl' Navigates Her Own 'Idol' Fame
NPR - USA
Last year, she recorded a Brit-pop-style tune called "Green," to support the environmental group Greenpeace. In one song on Youth of China, Lee runs down ...
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Raising her voice, taking a stance: Sheryl Crow's new music ...
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
Not the usual agenda for a singer-songwriter who's coming to town, but Crow, 46, has forged a reputation as an environmental and political activist, ...
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TORONTO BIKE FANS- Let's break
blogTO - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... a resounding chorus for the environment during the performance of his new song, Walk and Roll (download the song for free at http:www.fiddlefire.com). ...
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From Grist: singer goes green

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He's Got the Remedy
Jason Mraz sings the praises of a simpler life

You may know him as the geek in the pink, but these days Jason Mraz is the geek in the green. From co-founding a bamboo T-shirt line to making his latest tour more sustainable, the singer has made a commitment to eco-living at work and at home. He talks with Sarah van Schagen about his musical role models, his converted crew, and why he'll never sing about recycling.

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Songs for EE in the News (April-May)

Mother Earth is HOT
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - AR,USA
Musicians who have not yet added a green-theme song to their catalogs seemed to apologize for their inability to offer up an Earth Day anthem. ...
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The environmentalist's song; Green-Up's Donald Fraser has fused ...
Peterborough Examiner - Peterborough,Ontario,Canada
Late in the afternoon on Earth Day, Peterborough Green-Up's Donald Fraser rides into Ecology Park on his bicycle, guitar slung on his back, the hair under ...
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Cloud Cult goes green with every note
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
BY ALLISON AUGUSTYN For the band Cloud Cult, every day is Earth Day. It's not unusual to find environmental politics mixed up in modern music, ...

Beauty queens on environment mission
ABS CBN News - Philippines
This tour involves past and present Ms. Earth ambassadors who talk to students about the environment. Their teaching strategies usually begin with a song, ...

How to sing like a planet Scientists say the Earth is humming. Not ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The Earth is humming. Singing. Churning out a tune without the aid of battery or string or wind-up mechanism and its song is ethereal and mystifying and ...

Earth Day music to your ears
UNLV The Rebel Yell - Las Vegas,NV,USA
He sings about the pain and suffering of planet Earth as people keep abusing it. Unfortunately, the song isn't very catchy, and I personally think the ...

Students Sing 'Green Song' For Recycling
NBC6.net - Miami,FL,USA
Greening The Earth: Part 3 Glass Of Green? When you are debating whether ... Greening The

Finale to Earth Day Celebration
Newport News Times - Newport,OR,USA
"Who'll Watch the Homeplace" - an IBMA Song of the Year - conveys "a down-to-earth, down-home, deeply rooted conversation" that looks at life in unexpected ...

Earth Day growing
Vancouver Courier - BC, Canada
Those who want to commune with nature can kick off Earth Day on April 26 with song. The Hastings Park Conservancy invites residents to join naturalist Al ...

How To Be Greener Than The Trees On Earth Day, April 22, 2008
By Jeff
Grab yourself a free download of our song Greener Than The Trees. No, it's not specific to Earth Day, but it sure is pretty darn green. Email the song to a friend or 3. Check out the green festivities over at www.earthday.net, ...
100 Year Picnic - http://www.100yearpicnic.com/blog/

Planetpals Earth Characters a Brighter Shade of Green
Animation World Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The Planetpals theme song "You can be a Planetpal, too," like all of its unique content, teaches kids that by doing their part they can be a Planetpal at ...
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Life’s Short
Anchorage Press - Anchorage,AK,USA
... steady focus on humanitarian and environmental issues. Cockburn (pronounced “co-burn”), has not only made it a point to reflect his convictions in song, ...

Postcard from the past
Jerusalem Post - Israel
Singer Joni Mitchell probably wasn't aware that when she wrote that line in "Big Yellow Taxi" - a song about environmental degradation, irretrievable loss ...
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Firefighters’ band is all fired upInquirer.net - Philippines
Another song on the album, “Pinagpalang Kalikasan (Blessed Environment),” sings of the importance of environmental preservation,

Beauty queens on environment mission
By johnnytalkback
This tour involves past and present Ms. Earth ambassadors who talk to students about the environment. Their teaching strategies usually begin with a song, followed by a short lecture (reason being the short attention span of children). ...
Ilovepinoys - http://ilovepinoys.wordpress.com

Activists protest Tory filibustering of climate change law
Edmonton Journal - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... would behave respectfully and after the Raging Grannies, a singing seniors' protest group, belted out a song mocking Environment Minister John Baird. ...

Eco-Rock: Jack Johnson supports Mixed Greens
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
Next month, one of those booths will feature Grand Rapids' Mixed Greens and Blandford Nature Center. Better yet, Johnson has awarded the groups a $500 grant ...
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Folk singer offers ‘song for a small planet’
Republican Eagle - Red Wing,MN,USA
A native of Minnesota with a background in theology, Mayer frequently delves into science andnature as well as “things spiritual.”

Bob and Sarah Dylan Saving Your Vocal Chords and the Environment
Indymedia Estrecho - Andalucía,Ceuta y Melilla,Spain
You cannot break the law of nature, but if you do it will break your back. It’s like asking, “How can I have unprotected sex with multiple partners and not ...

How to sing like a planet: great article

How to sing like a planet

Scientists say the Earth is humming. Not just noise, but a deep, astonishing music. Can you hear it?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

This is the kind of thing we forget.

This is the kind of thing that, given all our distractions, our celeb obsessions and happy drugs and bothersome trifles like family and bills and war and health care and sex and love and porn and breathing and death, tends to fly under the radar of your overspanked consciousness, only to be later rediscovered and brought forth and placed directly in front of your eyeballs, at least for a moment, so you can look, really look, and go, oh my God, I had no idea.

The Earth is humming. Singing. Churning out a tune without the aid of battery or string or wind-up mechanism and its song is ethereal and mystifying and very, very weird, a rather astonishing, newly discovered phenomena that's not easily analyzed, but which, if you really let it sink into your consciousness, can change the way you look at everything.

Indeed, scientists now say the planet itself is generating a constant, deep thrum of noise. No mere cacophony, but actually a kind of music, huge, swirling loops of sound, a song so strange you can't really fathom it, so low it can't be heard by human ears, chthonic roars churning from the very water and wind and rock themselves, countless notes of varying vibration creating all sorts of curious tonal phrases that bounce around the mountains and spin over the oceans and penetrate the tectonic plates and gurgle in the magma and careen off the clouds and smack into trees and bounce off your ribcage and spin over the surface of the planet in strange circular loops, "like dozens of lazy hurricanes," as one writer put it.

It all makes for a very quiet, otherworldly symphony so odd and mysterious, scientists still can't figure out exactly what's causing it or why the hell it's happening. Sure, sensitive instruments are getting better at picking up what's been dubbed "Earth's hum," but no one's any closer to understanding what the hell it all might mean. Which, of course, is exactly as it should be.

Because then, well, then you get to crank up your imagination, your mystical intuition, your poetic sensibility — and if there's one thing we're lacking in modern America, it's ... well, you know.

Me, I like to think of the Earth as essentially a giant Tibetan singing bowl, flicked by the middle finger of God and set to a mesmerizing, low ring for about 10 billion years until the tone begins to fade and the vibration slows and eventually the sound completely disappears into nothingness and the birds are all, hey what the hell happened to the music? And God just shrugs and goes, well that was interesting.

Or maybe the planet is more like an enormous wine glass, half full of a heady potion made of horny unicorns and divine lubricant and perky sunshine, around the smooth, gleaming rim of which Dionysus himself circles his wet fingertip, generating a mellifluous tone that makes the wood nymphs dance and the satyrs orgasm and the gods hum along as they all watch 7 billion confused human ants scamper about with their lattes and their war and their perpetually adorable angst, oblivious.

But most of all, I believe the Earth actually (and obviously) resonates, quite literally, with the Hindu belief in the divine sound of OM (or more accurately, AUM), that single, universal syllable that contains and encompasses all: birth and death, creation and destruction, being and nothingness, rock and roll, Christian and pagan, meat and vegetable, spit and swallow. You know?

But here's the best part: This massive wave of sound? The Earth's deep, mysterious OM, it's perpetual hum of song? Totally normal — that is, if by "normal" you mean "unfathomably powerful and speaking to a vast mystical timelessness we can't possibly comprehend."

Indeed, all the spheres do it, all the planets and all the quasars and stars and moons and whirlpool galaxies, all vibrating and humming like a chorus of wayward deities singing sea shanties in a black hole. It's nothing new, really: Mystics and poets and theorists have pondered the "music of the spheres" (or musica universalis) for eons; it is the stuff of cosmic philosophy, linking sacred geometry, mathematics, cosmology, harmonics, astrology and music into one big cosmological poetry slam.

Translation: You don't have to look very far to understand that human beings — hell, all animals, really — adore song and music and tone and rhythm, and then link this everyday source of life straight to the roar of the planet itself, and then back out to the cosmos.

In other words, you love loud punk? Metal? Jazz? Deep house? Saint-Saens with a glass of Pinot in the tub? Sure you do. That's because somewhere, somehow, deep in your very cells and bones and DNA, it links you back to source, to the Earth's own vibration, the pulse of the cosmos. Oh yes it does. To tap your foot and sway your body to that weird new Portishead tune is, in effect, to sway it to the roar of the universe. I mean, obviously.

At some point we'll probably figure it all out. Science will, with its typical charming, arrogant certainty, sift and measure and quantify this "mystical" Earthly hum, and tell us it merely comes from, say, ocean movements, or solar wind, or 10 billion trees all deciding to grow a quarter millimeter all at once. We will do as we always do: oversimplify, peer through a single lens of understanding, stick this dazzling phenomenon in a narrow category, and forget it.

How dangerously boring. I much prefer, in matters mystical and musical and deeply cosmic, to tell the logical mind to shut up and let the soul take over and say, wait wait wait, maybe most humans have this divine connection thing all wrong. Maybe God really isn't some scowling gay-hating deity raining down guilt and judgment and fear on all humankind after all.

Maybe she's actually, you know, a throb, a pulse, a song, deep, complex, eternal. And us, well, we're just bouncing and swaying along as best we can, trying to figure out the goddamn melody.

Eco Elvis...now here's a spin

Eco Elvis The Environmentally Friendly Elvis
http://www.ecoelvis.com/ "The oceans could start rising, Floods and droughts could come our way, People, plants and animals could start dying From a burnin' globe" - Burnin' Globe
Hello, I'm Eco Elvis. I'm Kansas City's own environmentally friendly Elvis impersonator. My job is to educate people and get them to take action for the environment. I do this by singing recycled versions of the King's songs and speaking to diverse audiences. Song titles include Burnin' Globe (Burning Love), Can't Help Recycling It All (Can't Help Falling In Love), etc. This web site has two main purposes: to let you find out more about me, my shows and music and to give you the best information to take action for the environment in your daily life. So, enjoy it babuh, and...thankyuh, thankyuhverymuch for visiting!

Songs for EE in the News, April 3, 2008

Furtado's light shines through
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
"Happy Earth Hour, Toronto," she yelled at the screaming crowd. By the time she got to the last verse of the song, urging the crowd to sing along, ...
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Turn out the lights, Calgary
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Nelly Furtado took to the stage at a green-powered concert at Toronto's city hall, singing her hit song Turn off the Light - the official theme song of the ...
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Jack Johnson shines in the dark
Sunday Times.au - Perth,WA,Australia
While people across WA reduced their carbon footprint for one night, Johnson crooned the song, Girl I Want To Lay You Down, belting out the very fitting ...
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Working with EEK!
Malta Independent Online - Malta
Suggested activities for this term are: creating a pen-friend club, singing or dancing to a song that focuses on the environment. This song should be ...
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Tie me emissions down, sport, tie me …
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The legendary Perth-born performer has changed the lyrics to his classic Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport to create a special song for Saturday's event. ...
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With Cloud Cult's New Eco-Friendly Album, Green Means Go
Spinner - New York,NY,USA
"If I'm finished writing a song and I don't feel like a better person for it, then I didn't write a good song." The band, just back from SXSW, ...
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Virgin Blue goes black for Earth Hour
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
Godfrey then introduced a traditional indigenous welcome ceremony, which included traditional song and dance and the secret involvement of a surprise ...
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Naturesongs Links Page

Naturesongs Links Page: "Links to Other Sound, Bird and Environmental Pages
These are sounds, bird-related and environmental pages I've visited and enjoyed. The great thing is the ability we now have to compare bird songs and other local sounds from one area to similar songs and sounds from other parts of the world. It is wonderful to be able to compare the song of a Cardinal recorded in Arizona to one from New York! They are different in a dialectic way, and I'm convinced they carry different information. See what you think as you explore."

Potpourri of Songs for EE in the News March 2008

Crow should be proud of new album
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
In the album's first half, Crow belts out political and environmental issues with wry bliss: Her catchy rock/pop/blues melodies never sounded better ...
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The Office beckons for a Collective homecoming
London Free Press - Canada
Many of Wassabi's lyrics spread messages of environmental, social and spiritual activism. The quintet released their first full-length studio record, ...
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Manhandling the Environment
By The Viewspaper
Will some XYZ celebrity singing a song, which incidentally not even remotely related to the very purpose of the event, be able to generate awareness about conserving the environment. I believe it will do nothing more than entertain the ...
- http://theviewspaper.net

Getting back to the garden in song
Boston Globe - United States
On the side, he writes his own music under the name EnPossant about environmental and social justice issues. His song "Erflings" talks about poverty and ...
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Just Asking: The Long Green Road
Wall Street Journal - USA
... trying to use his popularity to push for environmental change in the concert business. A lifelong surfer from Hawaii known for his laid-back rock songs, ...
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Just Asking: The Long Green Road
Wall Street Journal - USA
... trying to use his popularity to push for environmental change in the concert business. A lifelong surfer from Hawaii known for his laid-back rock songs, ...
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Little Aussie Butler returns
Adelaidenow - Australia
But one thing that's been consistent over his entire career is the social conscience often environmental - of his work. ``I'm inspired by a lot of political ...
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The Close Shave/Env Science Song
By admin
On Friday 11th May, I had all my hair shaved off for chraity and here is the proof! Also, the music is an environmental science song called ‘Eutrophication’, which I used for no particular reason. ShareThis.
Next VDO - http://nextvdo.com

Music and radical politics
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
When Midnight Oil was making music about the need to protect the environment, the environmental movement in Australia was growing. ...
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Sounds: Sheryl Crow's bad times infuse the songs on new disc
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
Angry at environmental decay? Check. ("Gasoline"). So by the time you're five tracks into the album it's not like she doesn't have a point, but isn't there ...
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HOW TO CELEBRATE EARTH DAY - April 22nd

By Ian Paul Marshal(Ian Paul Marshal)
Sing or listen to "Earth" songs. There are many Earth Day song lyrics available on the internet. Many follow well-known tunes. These make a fantastic classroom activity and help younger children to become interested in environmental ...
Your Great Awakening - http://yourgreatawakening.blogspot.com/

MySpace.com - IYPE STUDENTS - NL - Dutch pop - www.myspace.com/iypestudents

MySpace.com - IYPE STUDENTS - NL - Dutch pop - www.myspace.com/iypestudents

This site has a song called "Mother Earth" to celebrate the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE).

http://www.yearofplanetearth.org/

Songs for EE in the News, February 2007

Sorry, Neil Young, Music Never Could Change The World
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
"After The Gold Rush," with its immortal line, "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s." She's still running, faster than even back then. ...
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Disposable chopsticks under attack in China
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The spiky-haired Ms. Li, known for her rebellious tomboy style, was blasting chopsticks while promoting her single "Green," a song about forest protection. ...
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Disposable chopsticks under attack in China
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By JANE SPENCER BEIJING — A dozen environmental activists stormed the cafeteria of Microsoft Corp.'s Chinese headquarters on a lunchtime mission to change ...
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Polite's calypso wins hard labour
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
To prove his claim the magistrate asked him to sing one of his songs. Lewis sang two verses and the chorus about the Community Environmental Protection and ...
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cedar-n-sage donate song to chernobyl children's project international
By Kathy Ryan
They see What in the World as their environmental song, and decided to donate the proceeds to CCPI. Thank you, Cedar-N-Sage, not only for this, but for the support you have shown these past years! I hope everyone will listen to the song ...
- http://chernobyl.typepad.com/chernobyl_childrens_proje/

Music and art festival to emphasize environment

Music and art festival to emphasize environment: "Music and art festival to emphasize environment
By STACY O'BRIEN
Jan 17, 2008, 22:27

A new music, art and environment festival is set to take place in Lethbridge next month.
Called the Canadian Music with Nature in Mind Festival, it will draw artists who focus on environmental issues and nature from across Canada for the five-day event, Feb. 19 to 23.
The festival is being tied into the environmental speakers series being held at the Lethbridge Public Library, with festivities kicking off Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in a free performance at the library’s theatre gallery.
As part of the event, organizers have also asked for pieces of art from across southern Alberta to display, with the Lethbridge Public Library partnering with the group to display the work.
On the afternoon of Feb. 20, youngsters at one westside, one southside and one northside school will be entertained in three simultaneous performances by musicians and theatre groups.
The next day, Feb. 21, there will be an evening of the arts performance set for the Yates between 7 and 9 p.m., which will be a blend of dance, poetry, music and theatre.
On Feb. 22, a musical performance will take place between 7 and 9 p.m. Among the performers set to hit the stage are: Remy Rodden, a Whitehorse, Yukon, musician .....

Lots of EE Songs in the news...a trend??

Song launched to fight climate change
Xinhua - China
... a popular musician who has had a long involvement in promoting environmental
issues in Indonesia. The song, which was also composed to raise awareness ...
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Eco-song aims for Christmas number one
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
An organisation that educates children about the environment is bidding to hit
the number one spot in the Christmas charts with a song encouraging people to ...
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Raffi sings to 'Child Honoring' tune
Yale Daily News - New Haven,CT,USA
... warming — for former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore
in Vancouver. Another song, "Count With Me," suggests assessing national progress ...
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Baba Brinkman Creates Musical Dialogue With Stephen Harper
ChartAttack - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Brinkman describes the song as a "rap editorial on the authoritarian management
style and environmental recklessness of Canada's current prime minister," ...
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Bob Dylan Re-Records A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Undercover HD - New York,NY,USA
The exhibition will focus on conservation and environmental issues. Dylan
though original disputed the environmental message of the song once stating
that ...
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Students rap their way to national nomination; Two years on, a ...
Owen Sound Sun Times - Owen Sound,Ontario,Canada
Woodhouse sings the rap-influenced song about Justin Trudeau and David Suzuki's examination of environmental degradation along the Nahanni River. ...
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Otters swim over to Oak Park
Detroit Free Press - United States
At the beginning of the play, the actors and audience joined to sing a song
about the river: "There's only one river, there's only one sea. ...
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Former Midnight Oil rocker Garrett named Australia's environment ...
The Canadian Press -
A longtime environmental campaigner and advocate for Aboriginal rights, Garrett
made his first foray into politics with an unsuccessful bid for the Senate ...
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Featured Visual Artist
All About Jazz - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... surrounded by many nature parks, including the Environmental Protection
Area of Cairuu. His song "Green Heart" is a tribute to Brazil's Amazon Forest. ...
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Former Midnight Oil rocker named Australia's environment minister
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... a protest song about Aboriginal land rights in Australia. The band also used music
to register its anger about environmental issues, performing at the ...
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Pete Seeger, songs for EE pioneer

Just breaking bread with longtime hero is fulfilling
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
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BY HARRIET MAY SAVITZ

BRADLEY BEACH

The birds were singing outside my window — so many of them. Their voices were strong, cutting into the silence. Looking out from my window, I suddenly thought, "Who put the song in a bird?" Once the question surfaced, I could not escape it. There were many other things to do that day, yet nothing seemed as important as this question, and that I share it with others.

My son is a science teacher. He was cleaning out the shed when I asked him what he thought. He hesitated and then responded. "I would say natural selection. One bird trying to attract its mate finds a way. It's his song."

It is a reasonable answer, I thought, but then another surfaced. My daughter was taking a walk on the boardwalk. She called me from her cell phone to chat. Instead, I asked, "Who put the song in a bird?" "It's their own uniqueness," she answered. "God put the song there to lift our spirits."

Ferida, a long-time friend, shared these thoughts when I asked her the question: "Joy put the song in a bird," she told me. "There was such a strong feeling of joy in the bird that he had to express himself so the first thing that came out was a song."

Seven-year-old grandson Ben thought birds copy us. "They learned to sing by listening to us sing," he told me with some authority.

Rosemarie was sitting on a nearby porch, crocheting. There were birds singing as we spoke. "God put a song in a bird so that we can each wake up to a song, even if it is just from a bird."

Granddaughter Jenny, 13, was sipping a cold glass of water when she thought about it. "When the human race is upset, we depend on animals to cheer us up. A bird's song brings smiles." And then she smiled thinking about it.

There were other answers. Mother Nature received credit also. Putting it this way, Bill, an e-mail friend, reported, "Mother Nature put the song in a bird so we could communicate. Ever whistle back at a bird? Invariably, it will return your version. It's up to your imagination to figure out what you are both talking about."

Why was one song different than another, some wondered in response. Others shrugged, sending me a look that suggested there was no answer. And I was quite silly searching for any.

But it was such an intriguing question I could think of nothing else all day. Just asking it brought me such delight. And excitement. As if I were on a journey with the destination yet unknown.

Certainly I had my own ideas about the singing birds. It was very clear when I fed them in the morning, when I heard their chatter and their constant chirping as they sat on telephone wires, as they flew past me, as they perched on my porch railings, as they filled the air with their sounds, that their songs were there to remind us that for some questions, there is not just one answer.

As there is not one song.

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