{"id":7379,"date":"2019-01-08T06:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2019-01-08T06:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:42:31","slug":"a-love-song-to-the-earth-the-mccartneys-in-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/01\/08\/a-love-song-to-the-earth-the-mccartneys-in-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"A LOVE SONG TO THE EARTH: The McCartney\u2019s in Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new year guest post from <strong>Stephen Martin<\/strong>. \u00a0It was sent as a letter to the <em>People's Guardian<\/em> which inexplicably declined it. \u00a0I'm happy to make up for this lack of insight. \u00a0Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>In just 15 years Stella McCartney is changing and transforming the way we think about and create a sustainable and ethical fashion industry (McCartney to launch UN Charter for Climate and Sustainable Fashion-Guardian 29 November). It is an impressive achievement from a creative and articulate ambassador for the Planet. Like her father, and his lyrics in a \u2018Love Song to the Earth\u2019:<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an open letter<br \/>\nFrom you and me together<br \/>\nTomorrow's in our hands now<br \/>\nFind the words that matter<br \/>\nSay them out loud<br \/>\nAnd make it better somehow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking down from up on the moon<br \/>\nIt's a tiny blue marble<br \/>\nWho'd have thought the ground we stand on<br \/>\nCould be so fragile<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her leadership and advocacy has created a real opportunity throughout the industry to support the UN\u2019s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); which define the universal global priorities and aspirations for 2030 and\u00a0 represent an unprecedented opportunity to tackle the root causes of climate change and how our collective consumption impacts on it, eliminate extreme poverty and put the world on a more sustainable path. \u00a0We need to build on the McCartney\u2019s powerful message to create a movement for change which embraces the SDGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new year guest post from Stephen Martin. \u00a0It was sent as a letter to the People's Guardian which inexplicably declined it. \u00a0I'm happy to make up for this lack of insight. \u00a0Here it is: In just 15...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}