SOS Planet Earth

SOS PLANET EARTH is a multi-media charity project for which the content is supplied royalty free by the producers and creators. The resulting profits will finance a series of micro-projects of a sustainable development nature that have been selected by the producers of the album, ADOME and by the Patron of the project, Comit? 21. (see below for info on these two organisations) The first product to appear from this project is an audio CD album, which is released in Europe on October 22nd.

The artists that are featured on this album are there because they care. They care about our planet and they care about the peoples on our planet. Many of them have been concerned about environmental issues for several years now. They are known and respected for their commitment to similar projects. They know that every effort counts. Not only are they giving up their income from the sales of this record, but, whenever possible, some of them will be talking to the media about the project and the issues involved.

Amongst the artists appearing on the album are:
Peter Gabriel, Sergent Garcia, Johnny Clegg, Youssou N’Dour, Bebel Gilberto, I Muvrini & Sting, Toure Kunda, Bill Laswell and Rokia Traore.

There will also be a DVD version including music videos by artist from the audio CD and containing information and film on the main themes of sustainable development covered at the Johannesburg Summit in August 2002. The DVD will be available mid-November 2002.

A dedicated WEB SITE (access via: www.planetecologie.org) will be created which contains a wealth of information about a wide variety of sustainable development issues, as well as details of a number of projects already undertaken by the participating organisations during the course of the last ten years. These projects respond to a series of problems, such as the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources, the increasing lack of transparency in the world-wide decision making process and the flow of capital and the radical changes in the cultural & social practices in developing nations. It also contains links to the sites of all the participating organisations and sponsors.

It will also show clearly the amount of money generated by the project as well as details on the micro-projects of the Foundations that have been selected for funding. Over the course of time, the site will trace the development of each micro-project from initiation through to completion, so that all contributing parties (including the public) will be able to follow the progress made.

Discussions are also taking place to organise a series of concerts in various European cities early in 2003. More details will be released as these become available.