🌟 Earth Day: Protect What We’ve Got
A 90-minute playlist about beauty, damage, and shared responsibility
For Earth Day, I wanted to create a playlist that’s more than pretty songs about nature. I wanted music that reflects what is at stake: the beauty of the Earth, the harm people have done, and the shared responsibility to protect the world we live in.
These 20 songs include environmental anthems, songs of warning and protest, and quieter reflections on place, loss, wonder, stewardship, and belonging.
Arranged as a 90-minute listening experience, they move from alarm to reflection to a deeper sense of home. Earth Day is about action, of course. But music can also help us feel connected and remember what we are trying to protect.
Streaming on Tidal
Joni Mitchell — Big Yellow Taxi
Marvin Gaye — Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Tish Hinojosa — There’s Something in the Rain
R.E.M. — Cuyahoga
John Prine — Paradise
Pete Seeger — My Dirty Stream
The Beach Boys — Don’t Go Near the Water
Bruce Cockburn — If a Tree Falls
Midnight Oil — Beds Are Burning
Bob Dylan — A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Jackson Browne — Before the Deluge
Neil Young — After the Gold Rush
Judy Collins — Farewell to Tarwathie
Cat Stevens — Where Do the Children Play?
John Denver — Rocky Mountain High
Ray Charles — America the Beautiful
The Eagles — The Last Resort
Neko Case — People Got a Lotta Nerve
John Stewart — Mother Country
Woody Guthrie — This Land Is Your Land
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