Whither Coldplay?
Bad news for enviro-friendly music fans. Coldplay, the popular British band best known for being fronted by Mr. Gwyneth Paltrow, (Please don’t send me any angry letters about that, Passport readers. I too have been known to listen to Coldplay.) attempted to go carbon neutral with its 2002 sophomore album, A Rush of Blood to ...
Bad news for enviro-friendly music fans. Coldplay, the popular British band best known for being fronted by Mr. Gwyneth Paltrow, (Please don't send me any angry letters about that, Passport readers. I too have been known to listen to Coldplay.) attempted to go carbon neutral with its 2002 sophomore album, A Rush of Blood to the Head. To offset the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere during production of the album, Coldplay sponsored the planting of 10,000 mango trees in southern India. But, four years later, many of the saplings have unfortunately withered in the arid Indian soil. Let's hope the forest they've adopted in Chiapas, Mexico, to go along with their most recent album, X&Y, doesn't suffer the same fate.
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