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...- - -... SOS happened on 7/7/07 do u remember?

2008-05-27T04:22:00.000-07:00

...- - -... SOS happened on 7/7/07 do u remember?

Live Earth
Live Earth was a monumental music event that brought together a global audience on July 7, 2007 to combat the climate crisis. Live Earth staged concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg - as well as special broadcast events in Antarctica, Kyoto and Washington, DC - and featured feature more than 150 of the world's best music acts - a mix of both legendary music acts like The Police, Genesis, Bon Jovi and Madonna with the latest headliners like Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas and Jack Johnson.

Live Earth's 24 hours of music across 7 continents delivered a worldwide call to action and the solutions necessary to answer that call. Live Earth launched a multi-year campaign to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis. Live Earth is partnering with the Alliance for Climate Protection, Avaaz, The Climate Group (We're in This Together), Stop Climate Chaos (I Count) and other international organizations in this ongoing effort. Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall, CEO of Control Room, the company that produced the concerts globally. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection and a Partner of Live Earth.

Exclusive online media partner MSN is helping Live Earth reach people in every corner of the globe. Official Live Earth concerts were streamed live at http://liveearth.msn.com. MSN's 39 localized web portals worldwide attract 465 million monthly users.

SOS is the ongoing messaging campaign and larger movement behind Live Earth. The mission of the SOS campaign is to empower individuals to change their consumer behaviors and motivate corporations and political leaders to enact decisive measures to combat the climate crisis. The message of SOS is that everyone, everywhere can and must Answer the Call to solve the climate crisis. The SOS campaign's identity and language is based on the international Morse code distress call: three dots, followed by three dashes, followed by three dots. The SOS signal will be used as a continuous call to action to prompt individuals, corporations and governments around the world to Answer the Call with immediate and sustained action. The SOS campaign is using a powerful multimedia platform - short films, television and radio PSAs, an interactive web experience, books, the Live Earth concerts themselves - to provide a global audience with the tools to tackle the climate crisis. This multimedia campaign will ensure that the message of Live Earth echoes long after 7/7/07.

SOS
elaine

@ http://www.liveearth.org

2008-05-27T03:41:00.000-07:00

Easy steps we can take to fight global warming:
1.Start by learning about it!
Gain knowledge and raise the awareness of others!
2.Save electricity
Whenever we use electricity, we help put greenhouse gases into the air.
By turning off lights, the television, and the computer when you dun need them.
3.Grow plants
Plants absorbs carbon dioxide from the air when they photosynthesis.
4.Recycle
Paper-newspaper,computer printouts,writing paper,envelopes,brochures and pamphlets,magazines,phone directories,books,cereal boxes,carton boxes and drink cartons.
Glass-Unlike paper,glass can be recycled infinitely without any loss of purity or quality.Made from sand,soda ash and limestone,recycled glass uses 40% less energy than if you were to make glass from scratch cos crushed glass or cullet melts at a lower temperature than raw ingredients.However,glass,which usually comes in four colours(clear,blue,brown,green),needs to be sorted at the recycling plant by colour before processing,to ensure that new glass in not created from a mix of colours.Light bulbs,mirrors and window glass cannot be recycled as they are treated with chemicals at the time of manufacture.
Metals-Recycling can be broken down into two categories-ferrous(containing iron) and non-ferrous metals.The most common ferrous metals found in Singapore households includes aerosol cans and steel cans,and containers for food,drinks,pet food,biscuits and paint.Recycling steel saves 75%of the energy that you would need to create steel from raw materials,which is enought to power 18 million homes.

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Pamela

extracted from SimplyHer magazine ;D

First Post.By Elaine

2008-05-26T00:53:00.000-07:00

And you think kyoto is a country?!
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
It was agreed on 11 December 1997 at the 3rd Conference of the Parties to the treaty when they met in Kyoto, and entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of November 2007, 178 parties have ratified the protocol. Of these, 36 developed countries (plus the EU as a party in its own right) are required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the levels specified for each of them in the treaty (representing over 61.6% of emissions from Annex I countries), [1][2] with three more countries intending to participate.[3] One hundred and thirty-seven (137) developing countries have ratified the protocol, including Brazil, China and India, but have no obligation beyond monitoring and reporting emissions. The United States has not ratified the treaty. Among various experts, scientists, and critics, there is debate about the usefulness of the protocol, and there have been cost-benefit studies performed on its usefulness.

S.O.S
elaine