What:
SOS (Save Our Selves) is the campaign to educate and engage us all into action to combat our climate in crisis.  Live Earth is a series of live concerts planned on July 7, 2007, to be staged across seven continents to call attention to this global movement.  Like Live Aid and Live 8 before, the Live Earth concerts will be broadcast and webcast around the world.

When: July 7, 2007

Who’s putting it together: 
The Alliance for Climate Protection, Chair, Former Vice President Al Gore.  Kevin Wall, Executive Producer of Live 8 & CEO of Control Room, who is producing the Live Earth concerts.  Pharrell, producer, singer, rapper, & songwriter (The Neptunes & N*E*R*D.)  Cameron Diaz, actress, spokeswoman (Shrek the Third, The Holiday, In HerShoes)

Who’s Performing: This is the artist lineup announced so far.  Over 100 bands have committed to the cause.
AFI
Akon
Black Eyed Peas
Bloc Party
Bon Jovi
Corrine Bailey Rae
Damien Rice
Duran Duran
Enrique Iglesias
Faith Hill & Tim McGraw
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
John Legend
John Mayer
Keane
Kelly Clarkson
Kenna
Korn
Lenny Kravitz
Mana
Melissa Etheridge
Paolo Nutini
Pharrell
Ray LaMontagne
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Robin Thicke
Sheryl Crow
Snoop Dogg
Snow Patrol

From the SOS Press Release on MSN:
SOS is designed to trigger a global movement to combat our climate crisis. It will reach people in every corner of the planet through television, film, radio, the Internet and Live Earth, a 24-hour concert on 7/7/07 across all 7 continents that will bring together more than 100 of the world’s top musical acts. 

MSN has partnered with SOS to use its reach to make the Live Earth concerts available across the globe. The Live Earth audience, and the proceeds from the concerts, will create the foundation for a new, multi-year global effort to combat the climate crisis led by The Alliance for Climate Protection and its Chair, Vice President Al Gore. SOS was founded by Kevin Wall, who won an Emmy as Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8.

“More than 100 artists are performing at Live Earth and they’re all headliners. That’s what it takes to engage billions of people. We’re not just engaging fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop Dogg, or the Foo Fighters and Faith Hill. We’re engaging them and everyone in between,” Wall said.

In the US, we’re partnering with NBC-Universal and its networks. On satellite radio, we have SIRIUS and XM. In the UK, we’re partnering with the BBC. In Japan, we have a historic partnership with two broadcast partners. We have already secured television, Internet and wireless coverage in 120 countries, and the rest are soon to come.”

Wall announced that Live Earth concerts will take place in the Brazil, Shanghai, Japan, Johannesburg, London, Sydney, and the Eastern United States.

Sources:
liveearth.org
liveearth.msn.com

Posted by Mike