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Here's the link (it deals with them buying mango trees in India to offset the carbon released by all the production associated with aRoBttH). I love these boys... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176989,00.html And if that doesn't work, here's the (relevant) text: When Coldplay cut A Rush of Blood to the Head, the rock band didn't want the album's production and distribution to add to the greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere. So, working with a small British firm, the CarbonNeutral Co., the group bought 10,000 mango trees for villagers in Karnataka, India. Since plants breathe in carbon dioxide as they grow, Coldplay figures the mango trees will eventually neutralize all the CO2 released in the making and selling of its CDs. It's a sweet deal all around. Coldplay gets to do right by the environment; the impoverished Indian villagers not only get the mangoes but will also earn money from the CO2 locked in the trees when the gas is sold on a surging new market--one that trades carbon saved for carbon burned. Capitalism is nothing if not adaptive, and its champions have responded to global warming with a market-based solution that provides polluters with a profit incentive to mend their ways. It's called cap and trade, and it is the mechanism behind the so-called carbon markets spawned by the Kyoto Protocol. Firms in developed countries that pump out more CO2 than they are allowed under limits imposed by Kyoto are required by the protocol to offset that pollution by buying credits on the carbon market. Those that cut CO2 emissions below their allowance or help polluters in developing nations clean up their act get to sell the credits--as do groups that cut greenhouse gases by, among other things, planting trees. Since January 2005, carbon markets in the European Union have traded at least 500 million tons of CO2. Because the Bush Administration dropped out of Kyoto, the U.S. doesn't participate in this booming global trade. But state governments are starting to set up regional carbon markets based on caps they establish under their own authority. In December, seven Northeastern states led by New York agreed to cut power-plant emissions via cap and trade, beginning in 2009. For now, U.S. firms that want to trade emissions must join the Chicago Climate Exchange, a voluntary but legally binding bourse whose members, according to founder Richard Sandor, account for 8% of the greenhouse emissions from stationary sources in the U.S. "If we were a country," he says, "we'd be roughly the size of Britain." Members of the Chicago exchange, including Ford Motor Co. and DuPont, have pledged to cut their emissions 4% by the end of this year from the levels they averaged from 1998 to 2000. They have already taken tens of millions of tons of greenhouse gases out of play, which sounds impressive until it's compared with the 6 billion--ton plume of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere by the U.S. each year. Meanwhile, the opportunities to offset emissions are growing. Conservation International, for instance, helped Mitsubishi and Pearl Jam funnel their offsetting funds into rain-forest protection in Madagascar. And Coldplay did more than enough to offset its last album, X&Y, by protecting forests in Mexico and Ecuador.

I saw it this morning. I heard Fix You [Me...just kidding] so I ran to the TV and saw that it was a Kong commercial. After the intial thought of BIZARRE! I found that it worked surprisingly well. You'd think it would be weird or dumb, but its actually a quite nice spot. And Kong is supposed to be ridiculously awesome. Can't wait.

They have to...Live 2005 is way too catchy not too. :)

Is anyone else wondering why Swallowed in the Sea isn't a single yet? Or X&Y itself?

Oops. Sorry about the repeat there. :)

I think so too Sienna. Maybe a bit overproduced. But we've got to let the guys do their things. If they try to stay with piano driven ballads forever and ever ala Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head I know I'd be happy, but eventually they'd all get bored and the quality wouldn't be quite as good. I'm excited. Change can bring about some seriously great music...it brings new inspiration when you try something different, and that usually brings better music than if you try to repeat (and make better) what you've always done in the past. R rated Coldplay...oh dear...that made me laugh :lol: Can you imagine that? Chris and Kanye rapping up a storm and dropping f words everywhere...

I think so too Sienna. Maybe a bit overproduced. But we've got to let the guys do their things. If they try to stay with piano driven ballads forever and ever ala Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head I know I'd be happy, but eventually they'd all get bored and the quality wouldn't be quite as good. I'm excited. Change can bring about some seriously great music...it brings new inspiration when you try something different, and that usually brings better music than if you try to repeat (and make better) what you've always done in the past. R rated Coldplay...oh dear...that made me laugh :lol: Can you imagine that? Chris and Kanye rapping up a storm and dropping f words everywhere...

Oh, I really hope she's feeling better. This is such an awesomely nice thread. It makes me happy. :)

Hello everyone... My story isn't as dramatic as many I've read here, but you all seem to be super nice and supportive, so I thought I'd throw my two cents in as well. I had always liked music in a vague kind of way, but I never had a group that I could lean on when I was sad or to listen to the lyrics spill out of the song and see how they are true in my life too. Then about a year ago a friend recommended Parachutes to me, so I picked it up at Borders. It was one of those times when you can tell that a group just sort of clicks with the way you think and the way you view the world. I've always seen Coldplay as sort of a melancholic-but-hopeful type of sound, sad, but not in a depressing or angry way. Just slightly sad at everything around us, but at the same time realizing that its all really beautiful too. So keep it up Coldplay, keep it up Chris, keep it up Johnny, keep it up Guy, and keep it up Will. Critics tend to be snobby anyway. Keep making the music that means something to you, because we're all listening, and we all care. :) I'm sorry if that was all horribly corny. :embarrased:

Oh dear...he wasn't serious though, right? I think I'm more interested in the Alice Springs didjeridoo album myself (I'm sorry about that, I have no idea whatsoever how that is spelled...)

Swallowed in the Sea. For now.

Change is good... I'm fairly excited about all of this. I can see it going a couple of ways: 1. They could strip everything down and go back to gently strumming guitars and gentle piano (Parachutes, We Never Change, etc) 2. Could be a more radical change--actually changing genres (I don't really think this one will happen. Just a feeling). 3. Or it could be just some early thoughts and Album 4 really won't be all that different. Should be interesting though. If they've already started working on the next one, how long do you think the wait will be? They're still touring for quite a while, so the probably don't have time to record.

Just wanted to say hi. My name is Katie and I'm from good old New Jersey.