Tag: Music - Page 8
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Marion Cotillard's Green Dreams, "Avatar" Returns to Theaters, and More
Photo via SciFiCool.com Interview magazine brought former co-stars Nicole Kidman and Marion Cotillard together to talk about Cotillard's work with Greenpeace, her environmental choices, and her new film, Inception (which also starts eco-warrior
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Mr. B's Joybox Express: Modern Minstrels Haul Piano 300 Miles by Bicycle
Tonight is the finale of a summer tour for Mr. B's Joybox Express. Blues & boogie-woogie pianist Mark Lincoln Braun (a.k.a. Mr. B) has been pedalling his custom-designed, piano-tricycle nearly 300 miles across Michigan, in
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Plant a Tree With Linkin Park, and You Could Win an iPad from the Green Music Challenge
Why should you plant trees? For shade and oxygen? Right, but there's tons of other things (like the tons of sequestered carbon) to keep in mind. And if these factoids to follow aren't
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Vuvuzelas Can Be Eco-Friendly As Well As Noisy
Vuvuzela: a word (and sound) that has gone from being local to global in 24 hours. It's the plastic horn that produces the droning, buzzing sound in the background of the World Cup football matches. And you either love
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Listening to the Music of the Garden
OK, it's a bit of a diversion—or as Good calls it, an "intermission"—but this great music video from Nick Bertke features sounds he recorded in his mother's garden mashed into a song.Good writes:
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Don Cheadle Named UN Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador, Rue McClanahan Remembered, and More
Photo via The Urban Daily Don Cheadle, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his role as hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda, spent World Environment Day in the namesake country's Volcanoes National Park, where he announced the winning
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Recycling Artist Creates Portraits From Old Cassettes
While reusing the licks, riffs, and lyrics of other artists is fairly common practice in the music world today, one visual artist has begun recycling aging music collections and turning them into truly original creations. Nary a music
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The BP Oil Spill Has Folks Singin' the Blues (Video)
With the BP oil leak continuing to threaten the gulf states, undermining the fishing industry and impacting tourism, emotions are running understandably high. Amid news reports of the leak, promises from BP, and failed attempts to stop it, regular
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Willie Nelson Chooses Biodiesel and Hard Rock
What? Willie Nelson is going hard rock? Well, he sure as heck isn't going soft, still on tour at age 77. He is sticking to country, despite that one reggae album, and is giving away $500 to someone with a good eye and a great
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Jack Johnson's Beach Clean-up Concert Kicks Off Tour
Clean the beach and catch Jack Johnson's free concert on the pier! The green musician and his label Brushfire Records have organized a beach clean-up Saturday
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Cape Farewell to Show Film on Sundance Channel and Send Artworks Around The World (Photos)
The Cape Farewell project continues to spread the climate change message in brilliantly creative ways this week as their Unfold exhibition opens in Vienna today. Not in Austria? Never
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Give Free Clothing, Get Good Karma and Maybe $300 in the Third Green Music Group Challenge
People really do win with the Green Music Group Challenge. Just ask Antonia M. Roman, who sent a letter to President Obama at the behest of Sheryl Crow and walked away with a Patagonia clothing prize pack and a "Best of Bonnaroo"
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Sun Boxes: Solar Powered Music
Musician and composer Craig Colorusso presents the Sun Boxes, " an environment to enter and exit. It's comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing
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Ritzy Concert Hall Hosting Symphony Played Entirely On Trash
Recology is a program run out of the San Francisco Dump, bringing artists to the landfill to make new, beautiful things out of whatever they find coming in from trash cans. TreeHugger has visited the dump
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Take the Green Music Group Challenge No. 2, This Time with Sheryl Crow
I know, I know. This may remind you of the infamous Sheryl Crow toilet paper caper, which she cleared up in a 2008 interview with TreeHugger. This time, the No. 2 refers to the second of nine challenges from the Green Music Group.
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Earth Day Sex (Video)
We're quite certain you spent the 40th anniversary of Earth Day being the very model of a modern global citizen. Thirsty for more? You can spend the evening reflecting on things that actually matter, like the best and worst planetary news of the year,
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R2D2 and Other Rockin' Robot Recyclin' Bins of Coachella 2010
Coachella, the weekend music festival going on in Southern California, is populated by amazing artists. Musicians came from all over the globe (save for some who couldn't make it due to the Icelandic volcano eruption).
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Best of Green: Culture & Celebrity (Slideshow)
We love seeing celebrities use their influence for good--especially when it's for the green good. With their fame and star power, they can encourage fans to eat less meat, cut their consumption, and pay attention to what's
