Drake greens his tour and supports greening the block!

This spring, in the months preceding his record release, Drake partnered with Reverb’s Campus Conscious Tour. Reverb is an organization that helps musicians reduce the environmental footprint of their tours while simultaneously conducting grassroots outreach and education to fans. On his tour, Drake traveled to 17 campuses in a dozen states to engage and educate his fans on the benefits of going green and how they can become involved in building a green economy. In order to go green, Drake’s tour bus was run on biodiesel, there were recycling and composting stations at each stop, biodegradable catering supplies and eco-friendly cleaning supplies were used, catering was cooked with local, organic food, CO2 offsets were purchased, and the merchandise sold was made of sustainable materials.

And as part of their efforts to engage students on his tour, Drake and Reverb brought along Green the Block, a national campaign and coalition aimed at helping low-income communities of color become driving forces of the clean-energy economy. Representatives of Green the Block worked with students on each campus to do community events and outreach on how they too can go green. Part of this outreach was getting people to sign the Green the Block pledge, which is ten easy steps one can take to help protect the environment and grow the green economy. Drake himself signed it! Reflecting on his choice to green his tour, Drake said, “The whole green movement has been something that’s been brought more to the forefront. The term green is something that has been refreshing, something that is exciting…for me to be associated with it, I thought personally, it made sense.

A short, cute video that explains the life cycle of Bottled water!

http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

This image was pulled from Gavin Potenza's blog. It is an information graphic mapping out the worst oil spills of all time in comparison to the new BP one in the gulf. Last updated June 14th, 2010.

GIVE IT UP! ..For the Environment

I love this song! Wouldn't it be cool if someone would release a CD with different songs about climate change? There could be songs from different genres and cultures of Music to express the global nature of climate change.

"Pretty Sweet Earth You Might Say, Round..."

Hi, My name is Flo. I'm a student of Global Environmental Politics at American University in DC and I'm tired of feeling like this Earth isn't mine. Of course, I don't own it, none of us do! We all share it, and thats a tough thing to do!

The oil spill disaster has spurred my passion into action. I've got to get the news out there! So, if your looking to learn about ways to reduce the size of your carbon footprint, events going on in DC, NC and around the world you might want to participate in, as well as general news and information, hopefully this will become your new one-web-stop.

My world view is thus. Hopefully everyone has noticed that we only have one earth to live on and that we all share it, both humans and animals. Although it maybe fair to assume I'm liberal leaning, I believe both sides of the aisle have both good and less good ideas. For example, I just learned that those same environmental groups I support may have had to do with the fact that the oil rig was so far off shore and so deep, which has made the problem of fixing the broken rigg more difficult to access. Environmental groups no doubt thought they were lobbying to keep the oil away from the plants and animals in the Gulf, this assumption was merely miss led.

So, everyone has a role to play. Not a politician or a millionaire? Lets start realizing how we can take our power as consumers, producers, innovators and as a basic human being to make the most informed choices to try save, not just the planet, but ourselves and our children's future.

I will be posting SweetEarth tips weekly, here is the first one!

• Boycott BP. Why? Because this company needs to pay for the damage its created. Click this link to join the group on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-BP/119101198107726?v=wall
• Companies owned by BP:

Castrol,

Arco,

Aral,

Amoco,

Wild Bean Cafe

• letsmovebeyondoil.org/
• http://www.handsacrossthesand.com/