http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=ee454186-69a8-40ea-98f5-08e038f237fd&k=41944Hillel Italie, Associated Press
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A companion book to this summer's Live Earth concerts will come out June 26, printed, of course, on environmentally responsible paper.
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change — or Live Through It, is a 160-page paperback release with an announced first printing of 200,000. It was written by David De Rothschild, founder of Sculpt the Future, a non-profit environmental foundation, and includes a foreword by actor-director Rob Reiner.
"This innovative and practical handbook supports the crucial mission and message of the Live Earth concerts and aims to inspire each of us to play a role, to do our share, in confronting and attempting to solve the climate crisis," Steven Pleshette Murphy, president and CEO of publisher Rodale Books, said in a statement Wednesday.
Proceeds from the $14.95 (U.S.) book will be given to the Alliance for Climate Protection, founded by former Vice President Al Gore, a co-chair of the July 7 Live Earth shows that will feature Madonna, the Police and many others performing in venues around the world.
"Live Earth will help us reach a tipping point that's needed to move corporations and governments to take decisive action to solve the climate crisis," Gore said in a statement issued by Rodale, which published Gore's companion book to his Academy Award-winning documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.
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I am looking forward to attending the Live Earth concert here because to me it is an historic event regardless of what the critics say, and a chance to jump start the world into action and caring about substance over hype without political predisposition and hopefully, distraction. All I see in the corporate media now regarding Al Gore however is, Will Al Gore Run? They never talk about the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Project, or all of the dedicated people around the world doing these slide shows for Mr. Gore and this planet, nor do they truly attempt to delve deeper into who he is and why he is doing this, or the moral imperative of this crisis unless a political spin can be put on it.
That's why I basically stay away from the corporate media in this country, because hype, gossip, and speculation is all they are about which is exactly what Mr. Gore writes about in The Assault On Reason. I then see the Live Earth concerts as a way for the people to regain the reason he talks about that has been lost in this country through propaganda, hype, misinformation, and insignifcant distractions, to once again see the big picture and hopefully really pull together to solve this crisis out of a sense of moral duty by finding the solutions within themselves.
This will surely be another book to add to my collection and share with my child. I just hope that the media one day can get beyond their esoteric gossiping and truly get down to educating the people regarding the reality of the situation we now face globally due to this crisis before it is indeed too late. It is however, good to know that so many others share the passion and education that is needed to solve this crisis regardless of political hype. I believe this book and these concerts will be a great start to that end.