Greetings fabulous Be Cool community!Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Sven, I’m a musician, writer, climate activist, and a new member of the ClimateMusic team.Stephan, Fran, Pete, and I were sitting together recently when they shared some of the amazing clips that have been sent in. I was blown away by the energy, talent, and commitment you all have brought to this song and the idea behind it, from the talented young singers to all the teachers and choir directors to the entire BeCool! network and partners. No, really! Check out a small sampling of the musical contributions our team has assembled into a teaser video to give you a little taste of just how inspiring you all are!We couldn’t fit everyone in, but we’ll have more to share as we keep adding them to the mix.Could this possibly be any cooler?Now that you or your group has helped to lend your voice to an anthem for the age of climate change, how do we harness the inspiration of this moment into lasting climate action?There is, of course, the important task of recruiting more song participants by spreading the word to more young folks, teachers, choir directors, and music lovers in your lives. There’s still time and we’d love to have more voices filling the BeCool! soundwaves, so talk to your people about participating!But beyond the song, what are the next steps we can take to transform this creative energy into meaningful climate action? Things like civic engagement, cutting carbon emissions, and sharing facts about the climate emergency with our communities?Well, in my personal experience, the best way to start mobilizing collective action is to first connect with and learn about each other.It’s always easier and more fun to do things together than to do them alone. All of you already have the powerful shared experience of collaborating on the same song. Most of you have another shared experience of already being active in your local communities on a range of environmental causes. Clean Yamuna River campaign by students of Little Flowers Secondary School in Delhi, India.We’re all in this together!So… let’s start to connect by sharing something about your climate advocacy with everyone.Maybe it’s a photo of your group doing a local community action like the students from Little Flowers Secondary School in Delhi in the photo above.Perhaps it’s a story or a poem about something you or your students care about, a video introduction, or an audio interview.Perhaps it’s a message you’d like to share with your fellow BeCool participants about what it meant to record your or your choir’s voice or what kind of climate action you or your group dream of taking.Or something uniquely yours we can’t even think of!You can send your materials to BeCoolSong@gmail.com or just reply to this email. We’ll collect all your contributions, create a community page, post to social media, and add to the BeCool! Campaign page.We’d also love to hear from you if you’d be interested in further engagement with your BeCool peers in the future, through joining an online community space, gatherings via video conference, or any other possible ways to stay connected.Teachers and choir directors: Feel free to share this invitation with parents and family of your talented singers as well as other folks in your community who might like to be part of this. Anyone can sign up here to be on this list and stay updated on BeCool! networking.Looking forward to connecting cool climate actions! PS: If you are in the US, please join HeadCount and the Be Cool! Campaign for a one-hour voter registration webinar!Be Cool Campaign – Digital Voter Registration TrainingTuesday, Apr 9th 2024, 7:30 pm EDTIn this conversation, you will learn the in’s and out’s about important tips, tricks and resources necessary to hold a voter registration drive in your community.Register now (click the “volunteer” button on the event page) |
