Live Earth is over and the organization and presentation is an example of what can be accomplished and I would suggest that if Gore and Sting and Lenny Kravitz and Roger Waters and the Police, et al are serious in their pleas they lead by example........

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Gore, Live Earth musicians urge environmental action

Last Updated: Saturday, July 7, 2007 | 11:44 PM ET

CBC Arts

The Police closed the Live Earth concert series in the U.S. Saturday night with their hit song Message in a Bottle, featuring a cameo by Kanye West repeating the lyric "Sending out an S.O.S." and adding the declaration "We can save the world!"

After more than 24 hours worth of music that began in Sydney, Australia, and ended in East Rutherford, N.J., Live Earth's main organizer Al Gore urged the public to "put all this energy in your heart and help us solve the climate crisis."

Organized to focus public awareness on global warming and other environmental concerns, the day-long, continent-hopping series ended in the Western Hemisphere with rollicking performances from Roger Waters and the Police at New Jersey's Giants Stadium and Lenny Kravitz closing down the vast — and free — Live Earth concert on Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana beach.

A Local Analysis........

Live Earth message lost in the fumes

Vinay Menon Jul. 09, 2007

Is anybody else feeling guilty about not feeling much of anything while watching the Live Earth concerts this weekend?