Scotland’s Big Tent Festival Adds Summer School to Promote Green Living
Dancing at last year’s Big Tent Festival. Image Credit: The Big Tent
Last year, we covered Scotland’s Big Tent Festival, a weekend-long celebration dedicated to green and sustainable lifestyles. 2009’s edition included an impressive lineup of musicians, speakers and workshops. For the festival’s fifth birthday, its organizer, the Falkland Centre for Stewardship, is breaking out some new tricks.
Foremost among these is Big Tent’s first annual Summer School- a three day workshop focused on teachin…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Kevin Costner Might Have the Answer to the Oil Spill, Robert Redford Speaks Out, and More
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If you’ve been wondering what Kevin Costner’s been up to since his Waterworld and Field of Dreams days, you’re about to find out: The actor has been working on a “high-speed centrifuge” device, called Ocean Therapy, that’s designed to separate oil and water on a massive scale….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Mario Batali’s Meatless Monday, Lauren Bacall’s Student Aid, and More
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If you think coming up with one meatless meal each Monday is hard enough for your family, then imagine what Mario Batali’s up against: the celebrity chef (and Gwyneth Paltrow travel partner) has decided put at least two vegetarian dishes on the menu at each of his 14 restaurants every Monday….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Celebrities Speak Up for Dolphins, Stella McCartney Makes a Big Move, and More
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The team behind The Cove, the Oscar-winning documentary that explores the annual slaughter of 20,000 dolphins in Japan, have another outreach program in mind: They’re collecting signatures on a petition to end the practice that they plan to pass onto the Japanese Embassy and Japan’s Minister of Health. But they aren’t doing it alone:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Art at the Vancouver Olympics Merits a Medal
All images by B. Alter
The Cultural Olympiad is a required part of every Olympics; how the organizing committee interprets it is another story. The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) gets a gold: they have spent $20M on presenting a massive programme which will continue through to the Paralympics. The provincial government gets big boos–it has slashed the arts budget for the next year.
For the tourists the most visible face of the cultural orgy taking place is the free music and concerts, <a href="http://www.treehugge…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Zic Zazou Makes French Music With a Beat
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What is it about Europe and strange music? There was the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, and the Norwegian Ice Orchestra and the British busker who played his bicycle… And now we’ve got the French.
Zic Zazou, a group of 9 French men (no wom…Read the full story on TreeHugger
We Shall Overcome: Pete Seeger Celebrates His 90th on DVD
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Here’s the gift for the hip old-timers on your list…you really like them but don’t have a clue what to get them. It’s Pete Seeger, singing along with all his friends. In his case, friends means Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Paxton, Billy Bragg, Taj Mahal, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Steve Earle and Oscar the Grouch.
Come gather ’round people, wherever you roam, all your ageing hippie/leftie/folkie relatives and friends will recognise the names and songs from their murky past. Songs sung at protests and demonstratio…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Sound of the Earth is Music–To Some
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Musicians have been making music out of weird and wonderful instruments forever and we have seen many of them: vegetable orchestras, bicycle parts, ice and recycled drains and bed springs. And now another addition to this esoteric form of music: the Terrafon.
It’s a huge wooden gramophone-like i…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Jack Johnson’s ‘En Concert’ En Stores, Benefits Enviro Charities
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The scene looks like a night sky, filled with stars. The stars are lighters and cell phones — 20,000 people listening to Jack Johnson sing and play his guitar. Johnson, a surfer, solar-enthusiast and singer-songwriter, adds the title of “documentary subject” to his resume on Tuesday, Oct. 27. That’s when the film “En Concert” will be released. It chronicles one leg of Johnson’s 2008 “Sleep Through the Static” tour, where he attempted to bring the music of the ocean and the waves to stages across Europe….Read the full story on TreeHugger