Posts Tagged ‘climate’

Continuing the series from the Button Factory Dublin, here’s We All Own The Sky. I had the privilege of singing this one again for my Lutheran friends in a wonderful zoom event. We had an International service which tackled the Climate Change Crisis with St. Finians Lutheran Church of Dublin, Ireland, University Lutheran Chapel of Berkeley, California, a Catholic priest Fr. Dermot Lane and myself here in Detroit.
I’m not a religious person but I do respect that religions have an important role in society and so I was happy to collaborate because we all need to reconsider our place in the world and how we can live in harmony with the Earth.

We All Own The Sky hit home in the last days as the smoke from the California fires created a strange haze in our skies here in Detroit. I found myself looking at a very dim sun low in the sky and looking away quickly realising I shouldn’t look at the sun. Anyways, the core message of this songs is that we are all connected by the the air and the oceans and if we want to have a hope of fixing these problems we need more international co-operation.

For a studio version and more of my Climate Change Songs go to www.climatechangesongs.com

For more Videos from this concert check out the Enda Reilly At The Button Factory Dublin playlist which I update regularly

We All Own The Sky by Enda Reilly

We all own the Sky

Blue in the day and Black in the Night

We all own the Wind

That blows around the World again 

What Have we done to her?

Changing her behaviour.

What can we do for her?

Can we even save her?

Forgive Me Mother Earth 

We all own the Seas

Americans and Japanese

We all own the Seas

Indians and Chinese

We all own the Wind

As it blows around the World again

We all own the Wind

European African

What Have we done to her?

Changing her behaviour.

What can we do for her?

Can we even save her?

Forgive Me Mother Earth 

Credits
Director of Photography Eamon Nolan
Camera Brian Grey
Camera Davin Quinn
Production Manager Jason Cullen

Directed by Simon Daniels
Produced by Design For Life
Video editing by Wissame Cherfi
Audio mixing by Enda Reilly
Location Sound Dave Best
Location Lighting Goda Akuockite
Event promotion Aiken Production
Publicist Dwayne Woods
Special thanks to Stephen James Smith and Simon Daniels

Here’s a screenshot from an application called Carbon Choices (for the iPhone) which I used for a week to keep an eye on my carbon usage. It’s quite interesting. It has other screens where you add in “how much tv you watched” or “how long you take to shower”, looking at the flowrate and the temperature you heat the water to etc. Some of the background numbers are guesstimates on my part but it’s given me a general idea of how much energy I’m using and which forms of energy usage emit the most Carbon.
The app doesn’t have a means for measuring heating usage nor does it do public transport or light bulbs but it does go quite in depth into the areas it deals with. I also I didn’t do much driving that week so I’ll try it again some week when I’m driving more.
I’m very surprised at how much Carbon emissions food is responsible for especially red meat.
If you have an iPhone and an interest in your Carbon emissions, it’s a good start anyway!