Live Earth is go

Live Earth - The Concert for a Climate in Crisis has been announced by Al Gore in California to happen on 07/07/07.

They'll be Concerts on all 7 continents: Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, London (Wembley Stadium), Brazil (TBD), Japan (TBD), United States (TBD), Antarctica (TBD).

Live Earth says it will implement a new 'Green Event Standard' that will become the model for carbon neutral concerts and other live events in the future. This will include:-

• All electricity that powers the shows will be from renewable sources, either through utility supplied renewable energy, biodiesel generators, or renewable energy credits
• Concessionaires will be encouraged to use and directed to suppliers of agricultural / biodegradable plastics (i.e. made from corn). Also, concessionaire waste will be minimized through a comprehensive recycling system organized at the venue.
• Venue offices, walkways, etc will be retrofitted with compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs, where possible.
• The entire production design will follow sustainable light design principles. Production lighting will include the use of LED light bulbs and production/artist trailers will be incorporate low impact technology in areas such as air conditioning units.
• SOS staff and artist air travel will be offset through carbon credits.
• Ground travel will be hybrid or other clean fuel where possible.
• Hotels will be directed to change light bulbs to CFLs, use nontoxic cleaning products, and have recycling containers present in the rooms.

Spot on!

They'll be 100+ artists. A number have already been confirmed to play one of the concerts somewhere in the world:- Pharrell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Bon Jovi, Paolo Nutini, Sheryl Crow, AFI, Melissa Etheridge, John Mayer, Damien Rice, Corrine Bailey Rae, Duran Duran, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, Mana, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, Faith Hill w/ Tim McGraw, Ray LaMontagne, Robin Thicke, Kenna.

For more details, please see http://liveearth.org.

Let's hope this is more than a good day out and the chance for politicos to hang out with rock stars. And let's hope that the audiences for the concerts use public transport.

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