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July 24th 2008

Kathy Mattea Cuts A Coal Album

Filed under: green and famous, interviews, radio — lori @ 9:05 am

A recent interview on NPR’s Living on the Earth, brought singer Kathy Mattea to the airwaves to talk about her newest album titled Coal.  She saw Al Gore give his famous power point presentation in 2006, and she didn’t sleep for two nights. She got trained by Al Gore to be one of his one thousand Climate Presenters, and has been thinking of coal mining and combustion ever since.

The West Virginian said, “strip mining is raping the countryside.” I could hear the inner struggle coming from the conflict of her ancestry of coal mining and her new understanding of how the burning of coal effects global warming. She’s written an entire album on coal, and says she can sleep better now since taking some action.

via: mattea.com

[Editor’s Note: To view first-hand how mountaintop removal is destroying the beauty of the West Virginian countryside, check out “National Memorial for the Mountains” by the org ilovemountains.

July 22nd 2008

Kathy Mattea Wants Artists to Go Green

Filed under: art, events, music — sara @ 9:15 am

Country music songstress Kathy Mattea attended the first ever National Summit on the Arts and Environment in McLean, VA. The Summit, hosted by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Americans for the Arts, and The Aspen Institute, featured experts in the arts, media, environmental advocacy, and other fields coming together to create an alliance between the arts–and the environment.

Some of the recommendations the group agreed upon include creating a shared vision for the arts and environment, a National Council on the Arts and Environment, and asking artists to create an official environmental starting point.

Mattea, along with Kateri Callahan, Executive Director of the Alliance to Save Energy, had this to say: “If artists are encouraging their audiences to go green, they must be sure that their own backstage operations are green as well.”

Walking the talk. I like that.

via Market Watch