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3r Blogging (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
One year ago, today, the world was assessing the impact of the Live Earth concert event. At the time, I thought that, the music aside, the whole event was a bit of a mixed bag. I mean, it didn't save the world from itself, but it seemed to certainly put Global Warming in the spotlight for a day or two. Well, one year later, the organizers of Live Earth are looking back and seeing a mixed bag,
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Today is the one year anniversary of the Live Earth concerts. To this day the organizers have refused to disclose the size of the gross take or the net charitable contributions. As Intelligent Giving put it last year: What on (Live) Earth is going on? WHAT IS LIVE EARTH FOR? We don't know. And neither, it seems, does anyone else. In principle, this weekend's global mega-concerts are designed to raise...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The music business is known for supporting causes with events like the Live Aid and Live Earth concerts, which generate lots of money and publicity for a relatively short time.
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Snarky Gossip (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Image details: Live Earth London - Show served by picapp.com This is one I didn’t see coming at all. Madonna has been receiving late night visits from Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, sometimes leaving later than midnight - and her building doormen are talking, talking, talking! Here’s the official statement from Liz Rosenberg, Madonna’s publicist: “Madonna and Alex [...]
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
At Iceland’s answer to Live Earth, the big voice of Björk helped make a radical green message heard, and as she tells DAVID SMYTH, her new music has plenty of fight in it
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
The Still Unnamed Online Tunes will Give Service to Africa The music business is known for supporting causes with events like the Live Aid and Live Earth concerts, which generate lots of money and publicity for a relatively short time. But on Monday (RED), a nonprofit organization that arranges for companies to contribute a share of profits on certain products to fight AIDS in Africa, is starting a...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Massive "event" gigs currently seem to be in favour at the moment, with Live8, Live Earth, and last saw one of the biggest to date, and most worthy: 46664, to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday and also to raise awareness of his AIDS charity's work. You've probably heard about it in the press - the whole Amy Winehouse will she turn up / won't she turn up situation, the issue over whether Nelson...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
NEW YORK, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- John Doe Amsterdam has been
recognized again with gold at the 2008 PROMAX and BDA Awards in New York
City.
The Work of John Doe Amsterdam was honored with 5 medals: 4 Gold Medals
and one Silver including the special Promax recognition "Top 10 Gold
Award".
The winning work of John Doe is MTV Rocket Live Earth Day PSA; it is a
promo/ commercial made for MTV Canada...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Just under a year after NBC turned over more than 75 hours of air time on several of their channels to Al Gore's “Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis,” Monday's NBC Nightly News championed Al Gore's “major endorsement” of Barack Obama -- as if a Democratic politician backing the Democratic nominee is newsworthy. (ABC's Jake Tapper gave the then-upcoming event a sentence while the CBS...
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Well this is kinda cool. You may remember last year that Spinal Tap re-united for the Live Earth concert in London. Now the band’s frontman Nigel Tufnel (aka Christopher Guest) is back in the spotlight again as part of a promotional campaign for National Geographic’s Stonehenge Decoded. Clearly the man is an expert on the [...]
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Click on the image to take you to the site: Pity I can't get it to pickup bird's eye view of Sydney....
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Live Earth- the series of concerts which had world's biggest and best performers rocking in aid of global warming last year- is now coming to Delhi.
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Much like his lyrics, Dave Matthews puts a typically goofy ironic spin on what numerous conservatives--and even some musicians--said last year: "The whole joke of Live Earth was how wasteful it was":The May 29 edition of Rolling Stone looks ahead...
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Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Some people want it all, and with her fame and fortune, Alicia Keys can certainly get whatever she wants. The singer revealed to Rolling Stone that, inspired by her Keith Urban collaboration and last year's Live Earth, she wants belt out her infectious vocals with more guitar-savvy musicians, and she wants Jack and Meg White at the helm.
