Sheryl Crow -- Celebrity Green Report
Written By Katherine Sansom
May 22, 2007
Sheryl Crow – American singer-songwriter, holder of nine Grammy awards and recent convert to environmentalism – embarked on her five-month ‘Stop Global Warming College Tour’ in April of this year. Each of the dozens of shows includes a performance by the singer, a talk from activist Laurie David, excerpts from Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, comedy sketches and a Q&A with the audience.
The tour is working in collaboration with stopglobalwarming.org, and has already reaped masses of publicity and newspaper-column inches, with the singer’s online blog receiving thousands of hits every day. The blog functions as Crow’s diary and features her ideas for ways in which we can all “become a part of the solution to global warming”. Her ideas so far range from conservation of trees in urban areas to the (tongue-in-cheek) suggestion that we refrain from using more than a single square of toilet tissue per visit. Crow has also offered her thoughts on topics such as nuclear power and the mountaintop removal process of coal mining.
In April of this year, Sheryl attended the White House Correspondents Dinner and took the opportunity to speak to special adviser, Karl Rove, on the Bush Administration’s poor record on action against climate change. Although Crow described the exchange as the “highlight” of her evening, Rove was apparently extremely unhappy and declined her offer of a debate!
Crow is a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and one of the performers signed for the twenty-four-hour Live Earth concerts that will take place across seven continents in July of this year.
Resources
http://www.sherylcrow.com/news
