| Life Alert Album Enrique Rodriguez Pastor USA – Peru 2010 |
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| This album is the result of a collaborative project between ECI Secretariat and Enrique Rodriguez Pastor. It contains 12 songs that reflect the ethical principles of the Earth Charter. It aims to provide a useful resource to educators who are interested in working with values and principles of sustainability in the classroom. The songs are geared to children ages 5-12, although it can be enjoyed by youth of all ages. Some of the songs are in English, others in Spanish and some combine both languages. |
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Raffi CD |
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In the summer of 2003, Raffi, a famous Canadian children’s singer and songwriter, launched a misic CD inspired by the Earth Charter. The CD, Where we all belong, contains three songs inviting people to celebrate life and invokes the power of music to help promote the Earth Charter. The song “Where we all belong”, sung on the CD as both as chant and a ballad, conveys the message of the Earth Charter by describing Earth as an abundant home and “circle where we all belong”. |
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Nous, les enfants de la Terre |
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An Earth Charter song entitled “Nous, les enfants de la Terre” was written in France by Eric Tudico. |
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Earth Charter / UNESCO CD’s |
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Pour la Terre, a non-profit French environmental association, has engaged in a project to create a music CD to promote the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter / UNESCO CD is an important way to deliver the message of the Earth Charter to schoolchildren. It promotes the teaching of sustainable development fusing songs by international artists with Earth Charter principles. To learn more, visit Earth Charter / UNESCO CD’s |
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Earth Hymn |
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Singer Alfredo Estigarribia Lopez was inspired by the Ecological Movement of Paraguay to compose and record an “Earth Hymn” in homage to the Earth Charter. This song was presented during a special event at the headquarters of the National Commission for the Defense of Natural Resources. “Earth Hymn” is a tribute to the beauty of the world and of Paraguay. |
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La Ultima Flor |
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This song offers the Earth Charter as an alternative to the destruction of the world and of the last flower of its kind, la ultima flor. Nehlin sent “La Ultima Flor” to hundreds of people as an Earth Charter promotion for the end of the millennium. |
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Earth Charter Song |
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At the South Australia Earth Charter launch in 2000, students of Thomas More College sang an Earth Charter song written by Nick Vall. This song was a call for peace, justice, and an understanding that nature can provide everything that we need if we stop abusing it. |
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My Heart Is Moved CD |
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My Heart is Moved is the name of the body of music that we are coming to know, and that is coming to know us. Its poetry and music arise from the energies of Creation, Earth, Universe, in conversation with the Earth Charter. |
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Pray Rain |
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Pray Rain CD reflects Pam Gerrand’s evolution as an artist, and chronicles the beauty and pain that has shaped her in the past few years. The sharpness and sweetness of mortality, brought home by her sister’s and best friend’s journey through cancer; the sweet redemption of rain following drought in the land and the heart; the numinous poetry of mystic Rumi; the steely, sinewy surrender to the dark cold of a Canadian winter… all of these are fodder for Gerrand’s soul stirring offering of 11 songs. |
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Just |
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In September 2009, students of UPEACE organized a celebration of the International Day of Peace where they presented their art. Maya Lilly was one of the student of UPEACE and wrote her song “Just” on this occasion. |
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05.11.2009
Music
