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If you are having writer’s block or suffering from blogging burnout, then you may want to take a break and check out the many activities happening this special weekend worldwide.

One of the high profile global event taking place on 07.07.07 is Live Earth. Live Earth, if you haven’t already heard(you must have been on Mars the past 3 months?), is a 24-hour, 7-continents concert series taking place on 07.07.07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

Live Earth will stage official concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London(1.30pm); Aussie Stadium in Sydney(11am); Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg(6pm); Makuhari Messe in Tokyo(12pm); the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai(7pm); and HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg(2pm). All timing shown are local time and subjected to change.

There are tons of information about Live Earth, here and here. So I’ll not bore you with more here. But you may want to measure your carbon footprint by using the ECP Carbon and Lifestyle calculator and gear your lifestyle towards reducing the environmental impact.

Being “Friends of Live Earth” campaign, Singapore is hosting Earth Fest to trigger mass movements at the local level to combat the growing climate crisis. Besides being a mass Open Air Telecast Screening of “Live Earth” Concerts, Earth Fest will feature many activities to promote environmental awareness. Screening of telecast will be from 7 pm(Singapore time) Saturday 07.07.07 until 7 pm Sunday.

Climate change is a serious problem that affects all of humanity. There is strong evidence that human emissions of greenhouse gases are changing the world’s climate. The main greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide (CO2), produced when we burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas for energy.

The battle against global warming and climate change cannot be won by the actions of the Governments and businesses alone. Every individual human being must be aware of the dire straits and be infulenced by the urgency of the problem and we must be prepared to make sacrifices and adjustments to our lifestyles, our values and our attitude towards nature and Mother Earth.

Answer the call, make a difference, save Mother Earth, give our children a future.

April 22 is Earth Day. On this day, I hope all of us can take a few moments from our busy lives to think about the health of Mother Earth. Mother Earth is sick.

The Eart is the only planet with conditions to sustain human life. The future of humanity depends upon the preservation of a healthy biosphere, with all its ecological systems, a rich variety of plants and animals, fertile soil, drinkable waters and breathable air. The protection of the Earth’s vitality, diversity and beauty is our shared obligation.

Sadly, we have failed to live up to our obligation. For the past 200 years, since the beginning of Industrial Revolution, the world has evolved patterns of production and consumption which have caused environmental devastation, the depletion of natural resources and led to the extinction of species.

The increasing demand for and the use of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, to generate electricity, power vehicles and operate plants and machineries is touted as the biggest threat. The burning of fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide, about half of which is absorbed by the atmosphere. This causes glocal warming which in turn leads to Earth’s climate change.

There is now near universal consensus that humanity are faced with the very real prospect of ecological disaster if we do not drastically reduce our emission of CO2 and find ways to reduce our dependent on fossil fuels.

The battle against global warming and climate change cannot be won by the actions of the Governments and businesses alone. Every individual human being must be aware of the dire straits and be infulenced by the urgency of the problem and we must be prepared to make sacrifices and adjustments to our lifestyles, our values and our attitude towards nature and Mother Earth.

For a start, we can aspire to lead simple lives rather than lives of conspicious consumption. When we make purchases, we can look for ebvironmentally certified products. Most of all, we need to learn to love Mother Earth and do our little part to help restore the balance between the human enterprise and the natural world.