Ever since it was announced earlier this summer that Earthrace would be joining Sea Shepherd for this year’s campaign against Japanese whaling ships, we’ve been eager for more updates. The 78 foot biodiesel-powered wave-piercing trimaran is a sleek, world-record holder (fastest for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat) that would even draw gadget-envy from James [...]
Singers KT Tunstall and Vanessa Carlton are joining a crew of other celebrities and scientists on a trip to the Arctic Circle. The trip is on behalf of climate awareness charity Cape Farewell — which is hoping the artists are inspired creatively by the opportunity to work side-by-side with oceanographers and researchers studying climate change. [...]
Mega-awesome band Green Day is joining with the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to protect the environment, raise awareness, and generally make people sport goofy grins. Besides posting blogs about eco-movies, acting against arctic drilling, and victories for polar bears, the Green Day + NRDC MySpace Page offers a contest with some pretty cool prizes–not [...]
While the “Davids” were sweating bullets on American Idol Wednesday night, the Razz was cool as a cucumber in West Hollywood, at the grand opening of the new one-stop eco-boutique, Visionary.
Magda Rod, designer for Wildchild Wear, has started an eco label of clothing called, Visionary, by Wildchild Wear. Magda feels everyone can be [...]
Chiseling a place for themselves in the Guinness Book of World Records, rock group Fall Out Boy plans to become the first band ever to play all seven continents in less than nine months. Led by singer Pete Wentz Patrick Stump, the group will jump on board a private jet in southern Chile for a [...]
30 Seconds To Mars, one of the hottest rock bands on the planet, is launching a new environmental campaign to coincide with the release of their new short film/music video, A Beautiful Lie. The shoot marks the first time a rock group has filmed a video less than 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle [...]
The U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — which recently left port from Melbourne to disrupt Japan’s annual whale hunt — has honored the late Steve Irwin by renaming one of its vessels after the late conservationist. The newly named Steve Irwin will form the backbone of Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic mission. From the article,
“Sea Shepherd founder [...]
Nunatak, the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station’s house band, rehearse yesterday in Antarctica—a region where the temperature has risen 3 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years—for the day.
Isolated from the rest of the world, the team of 22 researchers only have one another to showcase their talents.
Five scientists from the indie rock band Nunatak played in Antarctica, appearing around the world today via live feed during their performance on a glacier with ice picks and all.
According to Nunatak’s lead singer Matt Balmer, “I can’t believe we’ve been invited to do this – it’s a fantastic opportunity to encourage people of the [...]
Al has been promising us concerts on all 7 continents since this whole Live Earth thing started. It took forever, but he finally announced it. A group of scientists will be living out their life long dream to become rock stars in a media event that will make even Justin Timberlake jealous. (JT, won’t you [...]
