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Press Regarding Stop Global Warming College Tour III
| Posted on 3/29/2007
By NATHAN CRABBE
Sun staff writer
Singer Sheryl Crow and climate change activist Laurie David will visit the University of Florida next month as part of the Stop Global Warming College Tour.
The 90-minute event will include a short performance by Crow, remarks by David, clips from the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and a discussion with students.
The event will be April 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the O'Connell Center. It is part of an 11-campus tour across the Southeast to bring attention to the issue of global warming.
The tour is one of several environmental events being held in Gainesville in the week leading to Earth Day, April 21. The Fifth Avenue Arts Festival is being moved from its usual dates in May to fall on Earth Day this year and will have more of an environmental focus, said organizer Nkwanda Jah.
Increasingly hot weather in May forced the event to be moved, she said. Ironically, the weather created the Earth Day connection that gives an opening for public education about global warming.
"It allows us an opportunity to do a lot more education," Jah said.
Scientists say power plants, factories and automobiles are releasing carbon dioxide and other gases that cause the warming of the Earth. Climate change is causing rising sea levels and could have other catastrophic consequences, according to experts.
The two-week campus tour will be used to encourage people to join the Stop Global Warming Virtual March (www.stopglobalwarming.org). More than 675,000 people from all 50 states have joined the virtual march, including UF President Bernie Machen.
The Philips Lighting Co. will provide students attending the tour with a free compact fluorescent light bulb. Compact fluorescent bulbs last up to 10 times longer and use about one-fourth the electricity of incandescent bulbs, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Crow is a Grammy-award winning singer and songwriter. David is the founder of stopglobalwarming.org and the wife of Larry David, co-creator of the NBC show "Seinfeld" and star of the HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Dedee DeLongpre, director of the UF Office of Sustainability, praised David's commitment to stemming global warming.
"What she's doing is great in terms of bringing attention to the issue," she said.
Nathan Crabbe can be reached at 352-338-3176 or crabben@gville sun.com.
GLOBAL WARMING TOPIC OF SHERYL CROW VISIT
Singer Sheryl Crow and global warming activist Laurie David will bring their ''Stop Global Warming College Tour'' to UAB on April 13. The 90-minute program features a speech by David (founder of stopglobalwarming.org) and a few songs by Crow. The evening also includes a Q&A session with the participants, who are traveling from city to city on a hybrid (Wrong-it's bipdielsel powered!-Ed) bus. Tickets will be free and will be available beginning Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at the UAB Ticket Office, 1400 University Blvd. There is a limit of two tickets per person per day.
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NEWS: Stop Global Warming Tour comes to Vanderbilt April 18
Submitted by Allison Smith on 03-19-07, 4:01 pm | Updated on 03-19-07, 4:24 pm
Global warming activist Laurie David and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will come to campus Wednesday, April 18, on their Stop Global Warming College Tour.
The event, which is only open to the Vanderbilt community, will be held at the Student Life Center. Tickets are free and will be available to Vanderbilt students beginning Saturday, March 31. Only one free ticket may be picked up per student with a Vanderbilt identification card at the Sarratt Box Office. Beginning Saturday, April 7, tickets will be available to Vanderbilt faculty and staff.
The event is sponsored by the Vanderbilt Programming Board's Music Group.
Sun staff writer
Singer Sheryl Crow and climate change activist Laurie David will visit the University of Florida next month as part of the Stop Global Warming College Tour.
The 90-minute event will include a short performance by Crow, remarks by David, clips from the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and a discussion with students.
The event will be April 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the O'Connell Center. It is part of an 11-campus tour across the Southeast to bring attention to the issue of global warming.
The tour is one of several environmental events being held in Gainesville in the week leading to Earth Day, April 21. The Fifth Avenue Arts Festival is being moved from its usual dates in May to fall on Earth Day this year and will have more of an environmental focus, said organizer Nkwanda Jah.
Increasingly hot weather in May forced the event to be moved, she said. Ironically, the weather created the Earth Day connection that gives an opening for public education about global warming.
"It allows us an opportunity to do a lot more education," Jah said.
Scientists say power plants, factories and automobiles are releasing carbon dioxide and other gases that cause the warming of the Earth. Climate change is causing rising sea levels and could have other catastrophic consequences, according to experts.
The two-week campus tour will be used to encourage people to join the Stop Global Warming Virtual March (www.stopglobalwarming.org). More than 675,000 people from all 50 states have joined the virtual march, including UF President Bernie Machen.
The Philips Lighting Co. will provide students attending the tour with a free compact fluorescent light bulb. Compact fluorescent bulbs last up to 10 times longer and use about one-fourth the electricity of incandescent bulbs, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Crow is a Grammy-award winning singer and songwriter. David is the founder of stopglobalwarming.org and the wife of Larry David, co-creator of the NBC show "Seinfeld" and star of the HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Dedee DeLongpre, director of the UF Office of Sustainability, praised David's commitment to stemming global warming.
"What she's doing is great in terms of bringing attention to the issue," she said.
Nathan Crabbe can be reached at 352-338-3176 or crabben@gville sun.com.
GLOBAL WARMING TOPIC OF SHERYL CROW VISIT
Singer Sheryl Crow and global warming activist Laurie David will bring their ''Stop Global Warming College Tour'' to UAB on April 13. The 90-minute program features a speech by David (founder of stopglobalwarming.org) and a few songs by Crow. The evening also includes a Q&A session with the participants, who are traveling from city to city on a hybrid (Wrong-it's bipdielsel powered!-Ed) bus. Tickets will be free and will be available beginning Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at the UAB Ticket Office, 1400 University Blvd. There is a limit of two tickets per person per day.
http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/3641
NEWS: Stop Global Warming Tour comes to Vanderbilt April 18
Submitted by Allison Smith on 03-19-07, 4:01 pm | Updated on 03-19-07, 4:24 pm
Global warming activist Laurie David and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will come to campus Wednesday, April 18, on their Stop Global Warming College Tour.
The event, which is only open to the Vanderbilt community, will be held at the Student Life Center. Tickets are free and will be available to Vanderbilt students beginning Saturday, March 31. Only one free ticket may be picked up per student with a Vanderbilt identification card at the Sarratt Box Office. Beginning Saturday, April 7, tickets will be available to Vanderbilt faculty and staff.
The event is sponsored by the Vanderbilt Programming Board's Music Group.
