Live Earth Wrap Up - Everyone 50+, please listen up!

Saturday has been an interesting day. Apart from the fact that Toronto totally dropped the ball on the Live Earth broadcast at Yonge Dundas Square, I have had some really interesting conversations with people at the show.

I've noticed an alarming trend though. A lot of people were complaining about that show and how this could not be environmentally friendly. I don't think that we will stop promoting concerts, because we have this global climate crisis. We will just have to adopt new thinking, and this event has demonstrated it.

I must say most of the critics were 50+ and after very little explanation they have noticed that I am very passionate about reducing greenhouse gases ("Who knew that their sound guy was a treehugger") - they were all hoping to have a self glorifying talk about how this global warming "thing" is all just a big hoax.

I urge all people (not only 50+), if you don't think this is a true problem to reconsider your opinion on that. To all people 50+, please think of the younger generations, because we will one day have to figure this mess out. You might be able to experience the beginnings of this crisis, but if we don't change our habits right now, we - the younger generation - will have to deal with problems of truely global scale!

Thank You for listening.

Even concerts are rethinkable!

Hi Everyone,

I'm just watching the live earth concert in Australia live on msn. It's so amazing to be able to watch a show live on the internet from Australia, and see that people are coming together in one cause.

I've been reading a lot of comments online about how people are upset at the fact that someone would promote a big show like this to promote environmentalism. All I have to say, you didn't read the live earth page properly, check out the green policy. Have a close look and you will discover that everyone has been asked to do their part of making this event a green event, even the hosting company, which claims to be the "only truly green web hosting company".

I'm a live sound engineer and I so happen to do the sound for the live earth broadcast in Toronto tomorrow morning. I'm proud to be part of it too, and by the way, I live in St. Catharines, but I'm taking the greyhound bus to Toronto, because my wife is already there and it would be silly to not take public transit to the show.

I've included a picture of the show in Australia (at the top). Did you notice something? Maybe not, but I did right away. They are using LED lighting, which means that they are only using about 20% (it's an estimate, it could be even less, lighting is what uses loads of power compared to audio) of the power that a regular concert is using.

So please, have a closer look at the live earth page, they recommend to use green power, environmental materials for their banners, reusable materials for the catering, etc.

Even concerts are RETHINKABLE!

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Lets remind them in 2, 5, even 10 years!

More than 150 large corporations just pledged to reduce their carbon emissions according to this news article on Reuters. Lets not forget about this pledge and remind them of their own goals. Something is happening and it's good!