Spring Break
Crow aims to ignite activism
By: Cristine Mayer
Issue date: 4/11/07 Section: News
 Spencer Selvidge - THE BATTALION Pop artist Sheryl Crow performs 'Life is a Winding Road' part of the Stop Global Warming College Tour Tuesday in Rudder Auditorium. Crow preformed multiple songs, joked with the crowd, and pulled an A&M student up on stage to play the tambourine. |
The heat came to College Station as singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow and global warming activist Laurie David brought their Stop Global Warming College Tour to Texas A&M on Wednesday night.
For Crow, global warming is an issue she has found important for more than a few years. And with the help of David, she now has the resources to make it known.
"It's been an issue that has always been at the forefront of my mind," Crow said. "I worked with Don Hinley in 1999. Since then I've been doing small things, but until 'An Inconvenient Truth' I don't think many of us understood what exactly is going on, and that just really impacted me. Then I met Laurie, and we just took it on the road."
"An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary on global warming produced by David, was made to further promote awareness.
Crow and David said they began their tour with the hope that the enthusiasm of college students would help further the movement for this cause.
"We feel like the biggest part of the movement is here at the college level because of the enthusiasm and the commitment," Crow said. "We're just going to have to keep pulling people into this and make this the most urgent movement that we've experienced in at least our lifetime. To start a great heat wave, metaphorically speaking."
David agreed.
"It's fantastic to talk to people who can really make a difference, who have a loud voice and aren't jaded by everything," David said. Along with David and Crow, Philips Electronics supported the tour by promoting more efficient lighting choices by giving energy efficient, compact fluorescent bulbs to students attending the show.
"We're here to help Laurie and Sheryl get people started," said Paul Simonetti, director of brand communications for Philips Electronics North America. "We're doing this by promoting a program called 'Simply Switch and Save,' which is a program that encourages student to replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs."
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