7/7/07: The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official
companion volume to today’s Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop
concerts broadcast from around the world on 7/7/07. It’s a fun little book, meant to connect with a younger audience via tongue-in-cheek suggestions, practical advice, factual information, and imaginative, bluesky solutions for climate change.
Each of the book’s 77 articles is presented as a brief instruction or command. I contributed a few pieces that Streetsblog readers might appreciate. They were: Ride a Bike, Decongest Downtown, Ride the Train and Fly Right (which, more accurately would have been titled “Fly Less,” but that’s not very snappy). It was a fun project and, I think, a great opportunity to inject some of the progressive ideas that we talk about here on Streetsblog into the mainstream.
The book was edited by Duncan Bock and produced on a ridiculously short timeline by Melcher Media. Charles Komanoff also helped to research and fact check some of the book’s carbon emission calculations.
Here is the Ride a Bike chapter…
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