Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other international organizations to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance and Partner of Live Earth.
Live Earth will be kicking off in just under 15 hours from now in Sydney at 3AM CET (9PM EST). Other cities hosting concerts are New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, and Hamburg.
The following artists will be playing tomorrow in Hamburg (there are apparently still tickets available, so if you’re in the area…): Shakira, Snoop Dogg, Roger Cicero, Mia, Sasha, Stefan Gwildis, Marquess, Maria Mena, Silbermond, Michael Mittermeier, Samy Deluxe, Jan Delay, Enrique Iglesias, Katie Melua, Reamonn, Lotto King Karl, Revolverheld, Mando Diao, Juli, Chris Cornell, and Yusuf (Cat Stevens).
ProSieben will be covering the concerts beginning at 17.00. At 20.15, Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth will be aired, at 22.15 is the Galileo Special on Klimafalle, and at 23.15, the Live Earth coverage continues. N24 will be airing the event from 5.00 until 17.00, then from 20.15 until 6.00 Sunday. You can also watch the entire event online at the Live Earth concerts on MSN website.
Links:
- The Live Earth website
- Calculate your carbon impact (My Earth Conservation Score, which can range from 150-900, lower being better, is 259, but this test is written for Americans so I had to fudge some stuff – My carbon output is 8 tons)
- Things you can do to combat the Climate Crisis
- Online coverage of the Live Earth concerts on MSN (German site)
- Spiegel Online: Greenpeace Slams DaimlerChryler Sponsorship
- Washington Post: Live Earth to Kick Off in Australia
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Christina,
I tried calculating my carbon impact, but it’s definitely written for Americans, and when I got to the question about which cars we drive I was so clueless as to which American models could possibly correspond to ours that I went back and changed my answer to “0″ cars, thus pretty much rendering my result, which was 231, useless I suppose.
Hi, thanks for reminding me of this event and those useful links.
@martina: Yeah, I wish there was a European or even German version. We’re still driving a Honda Civic (although our engine is smaller than any of the listed engines) so I could fill out the car part, but there’s no Renault options, so I don’t know how much that will be changing things for us.
@SwenglishExpat: No problem! Thanks for reading!