PerpetualPlanet

What are you doing on Triple-Seven? Our family will be in Canada. Perhaps you’ll be on vacation too. On this particular day we’ll be checking out the LiveEarth music and activities in Quebec City and talking about what we’re doing about climate change.

If you haven’t checked out LiveEarth, get the details here at http://www.liveearth.org/event.php. The gist is a 24-hour concert series around the globe that many hope will be the tipping point for winning hearts and minds in the war on warming. Three hours of prime-time TV and round-the-clock radio and web broadcasts are planned along with live attendance at the 100 concerts.

If the estimates of 2 billion viewers prove accurate, I wonder if the concert might be the largest common experience in the history of humanity. I know it’s hype and Hollywood but I’m for anything that unites the planet on this issue.

I remember 7/20/69, at the McKenzie River with my family, listening to the radio — the day Armstrong set foot on the moon. Do you remember that day? It seemed that focused as we were then there was nothing we could not accomplish. I want my kid to have a memory like that as the challenges to come unfold.

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