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Best. Environmental Rapper. Ever. Is it any surprise that the best environmental rapper in the game is a kid. Kids have the most to lose if we don’t start getting our green acts together. Lil Peppi is a young rapper from Florida who has been sponsored by the Captain Planet Foundation. He is bringing a green [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listen to the sound of ice One of DJ Spooky’s latest projects involved traveling to Antarctica to use the ice, wildlife, footsteps and other sounds to construct an album and multimedia performance. Using ambient sound as source material is older than using vinyl samples, but Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica is a multimedia performance that comes at a key time in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing the Double Pane! Here’s some college students who instead of “taking you money” will be “saving you money” by retrofitting your windows etc: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Composing crazy music from discarded objects I recently saw a demonstration of some of the musical inventions that will be played during the upcoming performance of SchickMachine, the latest work of the The Paul Dresher Ensemble. The non-conventional instruments are made from strange objects, including a lot of reclaimed junk and decommissioned relics, such as an old church organ. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Electric Drag Racer Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Field Guide has a nice news piece about an electric drag car that is breaking records and beating gas-powered cars. The more people see this, the more people will realize that electric cars can be rough and rugged too. Check it out: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy New Year! Best Moments of 2008 Here are some of our favorite moments from our interviews this past year: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Gardens to the Rescue and Coming to the Rescue of Urban Gardens With a 21 percent jobless rate in Motown, many people have taken advantage of empty lots to build community gardens. This AP article reports that within the city of Detroit, hundreds of urban vegetable gardens have popped up on abandoned properties. This kind of land grab has become common in the city where [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Video: Carbon Cap Rap The turkey sabbatical proved to be very productive. Made a 30 second cartoon for the Environmental Defense Action Fund’s carbon cap video competition. Submitted it just before the deadline. Whew! C-Diddy voices the giant C02 monster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tell Starbucks to use real cups When you make coffee at home, do you throw out your cup every day? So then why does Starbucks throw out countless cups, even when people are drinking their java in the store. For a company that markets itself as “conscious”, they sure don’t offer their customers many options to stay green. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Video: The Environmental Candidate? Who You Think You Foolin’? We’ve managed to stay decidedly apolitical this election season, but here’s a last ditch chance to put some green into people’s decision making. There are enough relatives, friends, signs, and robocalls telling you how to vote tomorrow, but how about a little emotion being stirred up for our future? A sample from Supertramp’s “Child of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving old growth forests as a matter of national security In this TED talk, Paul Stamets makes the case for saving species of fungi whose mycelium may be able to create energy, sequester carbon, naturally kill pests, and protect us from global pandemics. This video is rich with insights on the power of mushrooms. Check out how you can get involved at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Money Maker Rap Ad: Don’t Wait For the Rain, Mr. Ebbo Conscious rap is world-wide and being used to inform farmers of new tools. In Africa, Maasai rapper Mr. Ebbo is the spokesperson for The MoneyMaker,a foot-powered pump developed and marketed by the non-proft KickStart. The pump is insurance against drought, helping small farmers irrigate crops. I wish all rappers sold out in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Track Roz Savage Last Sunday, Roz Savage rowed under the Golden Gate Bridge, attempting to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US to Australia. Roz has previously rowed across the Atlantic on her own, breaking 4 oars on the way. A former corporate cog, Roz has made it her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot Summertime Music Buy the album In celebration of the near 100 degree temperatures we had here in the Bay last week, I’d like to plug a great Summertime album. PigeonJohn and the Summertime Pool Party is full of the kind of happy rap that you grew up with as a kid. Pigeon John was born in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Movie Review: Seasons, a film by the Collective The Green Rapper crew rolled mobb deep to a screening of Seasons, a mountain biking film by The Collective. Now, we’re not ones to drink a lot of Mountain Dew and cross our arms in an X-formation while yelling “EXTREME!”, but we did very much enjoy this beautifully shot film. The film follows [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Day Rememberence Last month, Nader Khalili, an earth architect from Iran passed away. Khalili developed Super Adobe and Super Block construction. These structures, made of soil, barbed wire, and a little cement, withstand extreme climactic conditions and seismic activity. Originally conceptualized for lunar colonization settlements, these adobe buildings have been built by the United [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Superdelegates to the Superclass Further Reading It has become increasingly possible that the Democratic contest for president will be decided by Superdelegates instead of actual voters. If you feel as though your vote is becoming more and more irrelevant in the electoral process, you are not alone. David Rothkopf, author of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 5: Jobs for the Youth In our latest installment, we traveled across the Bay to speak with youth development veteran Mark Henderson. For 15 years, Mark has been helping inner-city youth get jobs in the city of Oakland. In this fifth episode, he talks with us about the current job situation for youth in Oakland and how Measure [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plan B 3.0 and Plant a Tree for the Capybara These days, knee-jerk emotional responses often trump evidence when it comes to debating environmental issues. Fortunately for the rational among us, Lester R. Brown’s Plan B 3.0 (Free PDF Download) is chock full of hard data. The book summarizes the critical environmental challenges facing humankind, and gives plans on how to address them. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The world got you down? Try Zapp & Roger! Are you crestfallen because another politician has tumbled from glory due to a sex scandal? Were you planning a Summer cruise vacation and then suddenly realized that once the ship was three miles out to sea, all human waste would be pumped into the ocean? Are you troubled by a recent study [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The world got you down? Try Zapp & Roger!", url: "http://www.greenrapper.com/2008/03/15/the-world-got-you-down-try-roger-and-zapp/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 3: Parks and Records In this show, the Green Rapper heads to the Mission in San Francisco to catch up with Jon and Mimi of Mijuanito. As we vibe to the melodic sounds, we also find out how their green record label Parks and Records is making a difference. A concept that blends their two passions, music [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Episode 3: Parks and Records", url: "http://www.greenrapper.com/2008/03/04/episode-3-parks-and-records/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entrepreneurial Environmentalism? This week, I’ve been involved with Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University. Along with lots of lectures, panels, and events, there was a big innovation challenge in which students from around the globe participated. The students were given an everyday object and then asked to create as much value as they could by innovating around it. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Entrepreneurial Environmentalism?", url: "http://www.greenrapper.com/2008/02/29/entrepreneurial-environmentalism/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bonus Track: Muir Woods Audio Tour A while back, our guest from Episode 2 (Doug), myself, and the Crissy Field Center staff collaborated on a Muir Woods audio tour. We figured that so many of our students came to class with Ipods and earbuds that we may as well “meet them where they’re at” and convert their love for music [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bonus Track: Muir Woods Audio Tour", url: "http://www.greenrapper.com/2008/02/23/bonus-track-muir-woods-audio-tour/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Movie Review: The Real Dirt On Farmer John I just finished watching the DVD of The Real Dirt On Farmer John. It’s a touching story of an eccentric Midwest farmer’s struggle to save his family farm from development and economic recession. He eventually converts to an organic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model and his farm survives and thrives. Plus, the DVD [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Movie Review: The Real Dirt On Farmer John", url: "http://www.greenrapper.com/2008/02/22/movie-review-the-real-dirt-on-far ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ecosutra My buddy Justin just sent me a DVD of the film Ecosutra, a Russel Berns documentary about issues like permaculture, sustainability, and renewable energy. I don’t know if this guy is related to Ken Burns or not, but the preview on youtube looks pretty cool. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ecosutra", url: "http://www.greenrapper.com/2008/02/20/ecosutra/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vlog Entry: Branding, Lessons Learned Here is a Video Blog (Vlog) response to some feedback we got about our logo. Enjoy: SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Vlog Entry: Branding, Lessons Learned", url: "http://www.greenrapper.com/2008/02/18/vlog-entry-branding-lessons-learned/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website