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Pether and Artists for Mother Earth
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Pether credits his parents, school (he has a Bachelor Degree in Specialized Education) and youth organizations for developing his interest in social-artistic projects.
For example, Pether created a concert program called “Audiotisme”, about Being Different (Autism, Highly-Sensitivity, Borderline).
After he wrote a (Dutch) song Mother, When will the sea come up here? he met people involved with Friends of The Earth Belgium and Mayors for Peace. The Dutch people stand to lose much of their country to the rising sea levels caused by global warming.
While most of the United States is preoccupied with securing the Iraqi oil reserves to perpetuate their energy intensive lifestyles and the Paris Hilton dramas, many in the rest of the world are appraising the far greater impact of global warming.
The impact of global warming threatens to be far more damaging to people than the combined effects of all the wars ever fought.
Pether says he,”felt powerless many times before, but after having contacts with an innovating and visionary project Green Energy Creations and receiving information from many people and organizations, he started to consider how he could act in his own little way. Because it all starts with ourselves!”
He founded Artists for Mother Earth in February 2007 together with his youngest brother Tijs to let people know they can also act, and to ask other artists to join.
Pether converted his car to drive on Fairtrade Pure Plant Oil (FPPO) and made an online page of it with his own experiences and photos. Now he uses coleseed (also known as rapeseed) oil in his vehicle.
Artists for Mother Earth are using “Fairtrade” PPO because in this way, they stimulate a fair trade and more peaceful society when using this renewable fuel in a good way.
Using this FPPO product is also supporting Artists for Mother Earth’s 5 acting points against threats to The Planet and Mankind. They are our pollution and intoxication of our living place, the Earth and ourselves, the growing militarization, the increasing gap between poor and rich, the increasing scarcity of natural resources, the rise of nuclear energy and weapons.
It is clear Pether understands how all these issues are connected.
This is Pether’s song Mine to Mine.
Pether says,”The song Mine To Mine is a ‘humoristic’ word-game singing about mining (using mines during war), the me-society, making contact from one to another, giving away from me to another me (person)… Mines make too many innocent victims afterwards… a song every-one will understand immediately. A hopeful call against the use of landmines and unconscious governmental behaviors… and a call to other musicians to use their musical gifts to write more such songs about different subjects.”
Pether also invites people to join Artists for Mother Earth for free and get free publicity when you convert your vehicle to peaceful Fairtrade Pure Plant Oil.
Pether says, “Thanks, peace to you all and good luck. Art will save a peaceful world!”
Tags: Appropriate Technology, Arts, Environment, Peace
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