US capital to host Live Earth gig
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Washington DC is added to the list of cities staging Live Earth concerts on Saturday, bringing the total to nine.
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Environmental activists led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore announced plans on Thursday for a worldwide string of pop concerts in July featuring like Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chili Peppers and scores of others to mobilize action to stop global warming.
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Many of the world's biggest pop stars performed at Live Earth concerts around the globe on Saturday to try to persuade fans and governments to go green.
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A city which has embraced the concept of eco-friendly housing hosts the International Earthship Conference.
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New York will host the Country Music Association awards next year, the first time the ceremony will take place outside Nashville, Tennessee, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey  - Some of the world's biggest pop stars from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Madonna performed at Live Earth concerts around the globe on Saturday to urge fans and governments to fight global warming.
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Lenny Kravitz, Pharrell Williams and Macy Gray are confirmed for the Brazilian leg of the Live Earth concerts.
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A public prosecutor has appealed a court's decision to allow South America's Live Earth concert to go ahead as planned, arguing that police can not guarantee the safety of the 700,000 people expected to attend the open-air show on Rio's famed Copacabana beach.
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Al Gore's next gig: concert promoter. Using popular music to bring attention to his pet issue of global climate change, the former vice president is planning a single-day series of concerts modeled after Live 8. Gore is scheduled to announce the concerts today in Los Angeles. He's expected to be joined there by rock stars Jon Bon Jovi and Sting, rap musician Pharrell Williams and media executive Kevin Wall, who served as worldwide executive producer for Live 8, the 2005 concerts that drew attention to African debt relief. ...
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone will on Tuesday unveil plans to cut greenhouse emissions in the capital in an effort to take the lead in the global battle against climate change.
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Bruce Springsteen and REM are set to perform a show of music and politics at Philadelphiaâs Wachovia Center. This starts a 10-day series of shows titled âVote For Changeâ.
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Performances from New York's famous Metropolitan Opera are to be broadcast live on satellite radio.
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Initially rebuffed by Washington, former Vice President Al Gore's Live Earth concerts found a last-minute home in the U.S. capital on Friday after Native Americans offered their museum for the worldwide event.
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The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend&#39;s Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the sunshine in.
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NEW YORK  - The New Jersey edition of the seven-continent Live Earth concert series, designed to publicize the issue of climate change, was a little like Al Gore, the man who helped conceive it. Smartly organized, highly efficient and with its heart in the right place, it was also just a little bit dull.
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SYDNEY -- Events kicked off today in Australia for the global Live Earth concert series, with laid-back rocker Jack Johnson and the revived 1980s pop group Crowded House topping the lineup.
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Music stars will take part in eight concerts around the world in July to highlight the threat of global warming.