| Winds of Change - China |
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Sep 2007
As world leaders meet for another round of
global warming talks, the focus is likely to
be on big polluters like China. The country
has recently become the world's biggest CO2
emitter.
Currently, 80% of China's energy comes from
coal. Mindful of the pollution these power
stations generate, the government is
investing billions in renewable energy.
"China is probably going to be the world's
number one renewable energy country",
predicts businessman Mark Kelleher. By 2020,
16% of the country's energy must come from
renewable sources. Much of this will be
generated by wind farms. "This area has
really developed since the wind power station
was built", enthuses one local. "When the
wind power station came, people got jobs".
Tags : Wind Power China C02 farm renewable energy Station |
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Affichage : 7477
Durée : 731 s |
| IAN TYSON: Four Strong Winds (Canadian country CLASSIC) |
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IAN TYSON: Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
After hosting a national Canadian television
music show from 1970 to 1975, IAN TYSON
realized his dream of returning to the
Canadian West. The music and marriage of Ian
and Sylvia had ended and it was now or never.
Disillusioned with the Canadian country music
scene, Tyson decided the time had come for
him to return to his first love, training
horses in the big ranch country of southern
Alberta.
After three idyllic years cowboying in the
Rockies at Pincher Creek, Tyson, at the
urging of his new wife Twylla, recorded the
album Old Corrals and Sagebrush consisting of
cowboy songs, both traditional and new. "Kind
of a musical Christmas card for my friends"
he recalls, "we weren't looking for a 'hit
radio' play or anything like that."
Unbeknownst to Tyson and his friends, the
cowboy renaissance was about to find
expression at the inaugural Elko Cowboy
Poetry Gathering in 1983. A small coterie of
saddle makers, rawhide braiders, cowboy poets
and pickers discovered one another in this
small cowtown in northern Nevada. Tyson was
invited to perform his "new western music"
and the overwhelming response at Stockman's
Casino brought Tyson the realization that he
had found his true audience.
Tyson considers himself a very fortunate man.
His second music career takes him to concerts
all over North America, where he is able to
ride the deserts and sage hills with his
friends from Alberta to Mexico.
"I like to surround myself with the most
talented musicians," Tyson says, "so that
people not directly from the ranch culture
can enjoy an evening with us through the
music alone. Everyone, it seems, can relate
to a song like Someday Soon and that's the
kind of communication I strive for."
The striving continues and the songs keep
coming from the word painter of the west. His
last album, Lost Herd, won the 1999 Prairie
Music Award for "Outstanding Country
Recording". Ian's current CD, Live At
Longview, was recorded in October 2001 and
released to the North American public in
February 2002. A collection of 17 of Ian's
favorite songs, some classics and some brand
new, Live At Longview is creating quite a
buzz amongst both fans and peers, alike. Mike
Regenstreif of the Montreal Gazette writes,
"At 68, and with 40 years of recordings to
his credit, Ian Tyson remains the best singer
and songwriter in Canadian Country Music. On
this great-sounding live set, Tyson mixes 6
new songs with 10 of his classics and a
western swing version of Blue Moon. Tyson is
as engaging as he's ever been. The new
material is terrific . . . older songs, like
Navajo Rug and Someday Soon, sound as fresh
and as vital as the new tunes. This is an
essential addition to Tyson's rich
catalogue." ****½
Ian Tyson, a recipient of the Order of
Canada, lives and continues to work on his
ranch in Alberta's Rocky Mountains and is
exclusively represented by fellow Canadian,
Paul Mascioli of Mascioli Entertainment
Corporation, Orlando, FL
Tags : Ian Tyson Four Strong Winds Canada Canadian country music kantri |
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Affichage : 81475
Durée : 235 s |
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