The biggest stars in the music industry have joined forces to raise their voices to the latest Rhythms del Mundo album, ‘Rhythms del Mundo Classics’ produced to raise awareness and funds for climate crisis projects and natural disaster relief.
The album is released on Universal Music on July 13, 2009. The sublime talent of Cuba’s finest musicians with the unmistakable vocals of artists including The Killers, Amy Winehouse, Jack Johnson, The Rolling Stones, Kaiser Chiefs, Fall Out Boy, among other great artists. The result is a unique formula merging Afro-Cubano rhythms with some of the most memorable songs of the last 40 years. With brand new recordings from the likes of The Killers, Editors, KT Tunstall, The Zutons and OneRepublic, through to special recordings from contributing artists such as Amy Winehouse, this long player is set to be the soundtrack to the summer.
Go to rhythmsdelmundo.com for more information.
APE SPECIAL AWARD 2009 - To celebrate the release of APE’s third album, ‘Rhythms Del Mundo – Classics’ we will award $100,000 to a single project judged most likely to make a significant impact in the struggle to prevent dangerous climate change.
Go to funding for more information.
On Saturday afternoon, 15 people - writers, academics, activists - sat round a table for three hours discussing climate-change stories. The theme was displacement and migration. Read more about this event here.
350, 350, 350 … Eighteen months ago, in some sense this number hadn’t been invented. Then, in the wake of the alarming ice melt in the Arctic ocean, James Hansen and his team at NASA published a paper showing that "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted” we can’t have more than 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere.
Which is a problem, since we’re already at 387, and rising. That’s why the Arctic is melting, why rainfall patterns are suddenly shifting fast, why drought is breeding mega-fires. The number suddenly put a whole new spin on global warming: no longer a problem for the future, but an Emergency for the Present. Very soon, we’ll quickly reach the point where there will be no way for the forests and the oceans to scrub enough carbon from the atmosphere to get us back to 350.
And so we’ve formed an outfit — 350.org — and we need your help. First, we’re using the web to organise real-world actions all across the globe for October 24th 2009. There will be climbers high in the Himalayas with banners, and 350 scuba divers on the Great Barrier Reef, and a rally on Easter Island — and there needs to be one in your town square, or at your church, or on the nearest beach.
It needn’t be enormous, but it does need to be creative enough to draw the media: 350 bike riders? Ten bike riders going 350 kilometers apiece? The bell of your church or town hall ringing 350 times?
By day’s end we’ll have all these stories and images up on the web, and in newspapers and on TV broadcasts, all over the world. We’ll connect the good-hearted people of the planet in a way that makes them more than the sum of their individual parts — and in a way that will put real pressure on the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009.
And so we need your help in another way too — we need you to use the address book of your email to spread the word, now, about 350.org all over the planet, in hopes that your friends on every continent will join the quite brave young people who are leading this fight. Go to 350.org for more information.
APE is delighted to announce funding of a further 38 projects. This brings the total number of APE funded projects working to stop manmade climate change to 176.
You can see details of all our projects, including these latest ones here.
The image to the right shows campaigners from the Westbury Bypass Alliance and other member groups of the White Horse Alliance, one of the latest projects which we are pleased to support.
APE sponsored the Intelligence Squared Green Festival on climate change on Sunday January 25 2009 at The Royal Geographical Society, London.
A non-profit event to raise awareness and stimulate debate on all aspects of climate change and look at what we can do to tackle the challenges it presents.
Run by debating organization Intelligence Squared, this is a truly interactive event. Specialist speakers from around the world will take part in discussions and debates designed so the audience gets the chance to put them on the spot and ask the questions about global warming they long to have answered. For further information visit the IQ2 Green Festival website.