How to listen to the Earth: Why and How to Be a Climate-Informed Music-Creator

Gan: Nina A Martin

Climate change is the process of our planet heating up due to factors like burning fossil fuels, over-farming, and deforestation, and it’s deeply connected to social justice issues. While the crisis can feel overwhelming, nature has a remarkable ability to recover if given the chance. “There will never come a point at which acting to transform the world for the better isn’t worthwhile” (Mikaela Loach, It’s Not That Radical). Taking action doesn’t mean giving up your passions; music, for instance, can powerfully inspire empathy and drive a cultural shift toward valuing the planet. There are as many ways of being an activist as there are activists, and climate-informed music creators are coming together from across the world to build a powerful, and strong community to lead the music industry into a greener future – here are some ways to get involved!

Resources

Books/Magazines

Find books in your local library, or second hand on sites like World of Books and Vinted.

• It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform our World – Mikaela Loach
• Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways – Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
• What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care – Elizabeth Cripps
• The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet – Leah Thomas
• There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make-or-Break Years – Mike Berners-Lee
• How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything – Mike Berners-Lee
• Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem with a Feminist Solution – Mary Robinson
• How Women Can Save the Planet – Anne Karpf

Organisations

• No Music on a Dead Planet
• Sounds Right
• Earth Percent
• 1% for the Planet
• Forest Stewardship Council
• Rainforest Alliance
• B Corp
• Support and Feed
• Greenpeace
• Imagine5
• Earthed

Music

• Nature on Spotify (royalties generated from streams go towards climate action)
• Data Garden Quartet (plant-generated music)
• Madame Gandhi – Arctic: Instrumental Meditation
• Aurora – The Seed
• Ludovico Einaudi and Greenpeace – Elegy for the Arctic
• How Coldplay Created Their Most Sustainable Tour Yet – The One Show, BBC
• Jon Batiste - Petrichor

Other

• Tune Into Nature Music Prize
• Music Declares Emergency, Music Industry Climate Pack
• If you are struggling with Climate Anxiety, check out Headspace for mindfulness resources

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