Live Earth Reports on Green Guidelines
Live Earth’s attempts at reducing carbon emissions seem to have been successful. There’s some controversy whether they should have used so much energy or caused so much pollution to begin with.
- Pictured here is the Black Eyed Peas performing at the Live Earth concert held at Wembley Stadium on July 7, 2007 in London. It was the first time they had been together in a long time.
- Live Earth’s Kevin Wall said, “Some say we could have done more with less, that our method was antithetical to our message. Frankly, you can only reach so many people standing around a campfire singing ‘Kumba Ya”. Our goal was to educate and inspire billions of people worldwide to take action, and while that effort generated carbon emissions on one day, those impacted by this event have been motivated to reduce their energy use every day.”
After a ten week audit, Live Earth issued a report on their energy and reduction effort. I think combining the entertainment industry with climate change is going to be challenging regardless. They’re used to their private jets when they need to get somewhere in a hurry and several would probably be hard pressed to go without other luxuries. The report however said that many did actually use alternative-fuel buses and fuel-efficient cars.
Live Earth’s maiden event had some success in reducing energy and diverting waste because although 97 metric tons of waste was collected, 81% was successfully diverted from landfills through recycling and composting. Live Earth has “Green Guidelines,” posted on its website , offering advice for future events.
They’re currently in the process of filming 60 short environmental films to educate future generations about climate change so some good things are coming out of the worldwide concert.
I think it’s great that there has been a global movement addressing our climate crisis but it’s unfortunate that everyone had to burn so much fossil fuel in the process of it all.
For more information about the Live Earth Carbon Assessment and Footprint Report see LiveEarth.org
