慎安的琴語軒

2010年10月19日星期二

美國少年Aitan Grossman愛地球

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中文報導來源:國語日報2010/10/19

- April 2009 -

Aitan Grossman is a 12 year old who has taken his love of music and composed a remarkable song. Acterra’s young climate hero hopes his composition will raise the world’s awareness about the threat of global warming to future generations.

The song, called “100 Generations”, can now be purchased on iTunes for less than one dollar. “A very small donation”, Aitan points out, to counter the threat of global warming. This special song, not only features Aitan and his 14-year-old sister Tatiana but also many young people from around the world. Students from Botswana, France, Venezuela, Taiwan and Ethiopia contributed to singing different sections of the song in both English and in their native tongues. The song’s instrumental section features Aitan on keyboards and other students from Nueva School in Hillsboro, California, Nishad Singh on drums, Willy Hawkins on bass and Matt Baszucki on guitar.

This imaginative project was conceived by Aitan last summer when he began preparing for his Bar Mitzvah. He notes, “It’s expected that we do the right thing to help some big world problem, and it made perfect sense to pick global warming because it’s the biggest problem our world faces today.” Aitan learned about the seriousness of global warming after reading the kid’s version of Al Gore’s book An Inconvenient Truth.

Aitan wrote and composed this song for two very important reasons. First, to raise awareness of how global warming will affect the next 100 generations. He says, “I hope the message of the song makes people pay attention and will speak for itself.” His second goal is to generate money to help two large environmental non-profits combat the threat of global warming: The World Wildlife Federation and The Alliance for Climate Protection.

Aitan realizes these organizations need money to operate, so he wants to help them out. All the money the “100 Generations” song generates through iTunes will be donated to them. Aitan selected the WWF because he believes it is the leading environmental non-profit assisting endangered species. He chose the Alliance for Climate Protection because it is a very well known organization and because it created The Live Earth Concert series, which is what inspired him to take on this project in the first place.

Aitan Grossman is a climate hero because he has created a sentimental and powerful song that makes each listener think about how global warming will affect the next 100 generations and he has also allowed us an extremely affordable way to become part of the solution.

To purchase or hear a sample of “100 Generations” please visit iTunes or visit