List of songs about the environment

This list of songs about the environment includes only songs whose author has an article in Wikipedia.

A

• Acoustic Junction - "Look Before It's Gone"
• After Forever - "Equally Destructive"
• Alabama - "Pass It on Down"
• Albert Hammond - "Down by the River"
• Alligatoah- "Lass liegen"
• Amata - "Water Song"
• John Anderson - "Seminole Wind"
• Annihilator - "Stonewall"
• Aerosmith - "Nobody's Fault"
• Alter Bridge - "Bleed It Dry"
• Anúna- "August"

B

• Babylon Zoo - "Animal Army"
• Bad Religion - "Cease", "Faith Alone", "Grains of Wrath", "How Much Is Enough?", "Kyoto Now!", "Los Angeles Is Burning", "Losing Generation", "Modern Day Catastrophists", "Modern Man", "New Leaf", "Ten In 2010", "The Grand Delusion", "Time And Disregard", "Too Much To Ask", "Unacceptable", and "Watch It Die"
• Roy Bailey - "The Last Ploughshare", "Blackwaters", "Green Peace Really Green", "Red and Green", "The Last of the Great Whales"
• The Beach Boys - "Don't Go Near the Water"
• The Beatles - "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill" and "Mother Nature's Son"
• Ben Harper - "Excuse Me Mr."
• Bjork - "Earth Intruders"
• The Black Eyed Peas - "Where Is The Love?"
• Black Sabbath - "Hole in the Sky" and "Children of the Sea"
• Blues Traveler - "Whoops"
• Edgar Broughton Band - "Poppy"
• Jackson Browne - "Before The Deluge"
• Bruce Cockburn - "If a Tree Falls"
• Bruce Hornsby - "Look Out Any Window"
• Bryan Adams - "Don't Drop that Bomb on Me"
• Bush - "The Disease of the Dancing Cats"
• The Byrds - "Hungry Planet"
• Bliss n Eso - "Sea Is Rising"
• John Butler - "Kimberley"

C

• JJ Cale - "Death in the wilderness" "Stone River"
• Cake - "Carbon Monoxide" and "Long Line of Cars"
• Captain Beefheart - "Abba Zabba", "The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back", "Flash Gordon's Ape", "Frownland", "Petrified Forest", "The Smithsonian Institute Blues", and "Wildlife"
• Cat Stevens - "Where Do The Children Play"
• Darryl Cherney - "Where Are We Gonna Work When the Trees Are Gone?", "You Can't Clearcut Your Way to Heaven"
• Johnny Clegg and Savuka - "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World"
• Julian Cope - "Pristine", "Promised Land", "Not Waving, But Drowning", "Western Front 1992 CE", "Hung Up and Hanging Out to Dry", "The American Lite", and "Las Vegas Basement"
• Corb Lund - "Truth Comes Out"
• Miley Cyrus - "Wake up America" and "1 Sun"

D

• Dave Mathews Band - "Too Much"
• Dawnstar - "Change The World"
• Dead Kennedys - "Cesspools in Eden" and "Moon Over Marin"
• Deadmau5 - "Animal Rights"
• Deep Forest - "Deep Blue Sea" and "Forest Hymn"
• Disturbed (band) - "Another Way To Die"
• John Denver - "Calypso", "I Want To Live", "Rocky Mountain High", and "Paradise"
• Depeche Mode - "The Landscape Is Changing"
• Devo - "No Place Like Home"
• Bo Diddley - "Pollution"
• Dir en grey - "Glass Skin"
• Bonnie Dobson - "Morning Dew" (covered by Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Greg Allman and by more than twenty other artists)
• Thomas Donovan - "Calling Around The World"
• Dramarama - "What Are We Gonna Do"
• Dub Inc - "Revolution"
• Ian Dury - "Poo-poo in the prawn"
• Bob Dylan - "License to kill"
• Dr. Octagon - "Trees"
• Demi Lovato and *Joe Jonas - "Make a Wave"

E

• The Eagles - "The Last Resort" and "No More Walks In The Woods"
• Eddie Vedder - "Society"
• Electric Light Orchestra - "In Old England Town (Boogie No. 2)", "Jungle", "King of the Universe", "Laredo Tornado", "Mission (A World Record)", "One Summer Dream", and "Time After Time"
• Environmental Protection Agency Chorus - "When the North Pole Melts"
• Melissa Etheridge - "I Need To Wake Up"
• Epica - "This is the Time"
• Eurythmics - "When Tomorrow Comes"

F

• Fathead_(band) - "Clean It Up"
• Fleshies - "South Miami"
• Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"
• Dan Fogelberg - "Cry in the Forest" and "Face the Fire"
• Steve Forbert - "Good Planets Are Hard to Find"
• Hudson Ford - "Burn Baby Burn"
• A Friend in London - "A New Tomorrow"
• Freedom Call - "Mother Earth"
• Disney's Friends for Change - "Make a Wave"

G

• Peter Gabriel - "Down to Earth" and "Here Comes the Flood"
• Gabrielle Aplin - "Reverse"
• Marvin Gaye - "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
• Genesis - "Dodo/Lurker"
• Girlyman - "Amaze Me"
• Gojira - "A Sight to Behold", "Embrace the World", "Global Warming", "Ocean Planet", "Toxic Garbage Island", and "World to Come"
• Goose Creek Symphony - "Oxygen"
• Gorillaz - "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead", "O Green World", and "Superfast Jellyfish"
• Gotye - "Eyes Wide Open"
• Greg Graffin - "Cease", "Cold As The Clay", "Tell Me What you Think", and "Time Of Need"
• The Grateful Dead - "We Can Run"
• Gamma Ray - "To Mother Earth!"
• Globus - "Wyatt Earth"

H

• The Handsome Family - "Peace in the Valley Once Again"
• Sophie B. Hawkins - "The Land, The Sea, and The Sky"
• Barry Hertz - "Creation's Dawn, Think Like a River"
• Bruce Hornsby & The Range - "Look Out Any Window"
• Halsey - "New Americana"

I

• Iron Maiden - "Total Eclipse"
• Islands - "Humans"
• Ian Kelly - "Wonderful Humans"
• Imogen Heap - "Earth"
• Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive"

J

• Michael Jackson - "Cry", "Earth Song", "Heal The World", and "Man in the Mirror"
• James - "Greenpeace" and "What For"
• Jamiroquai - "Virtual Insanity"
• Joe Walsh - "Song for a Dying Planet"
• Jack Johnson - "3 R's", "The Horizon Has Been Defeated", and "With My Own Two Hands" (ft. Ben Harper)
• Jason Mraz - "Only Human"
• Jefferson Airplane - "Eskimo Blue Day"
• Jethro Tull - "North Sea Oil" and "Wond'ring Again"
• Johnny Cash - "Don't Go Near the Water"
• Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
• Joe Jonas and *Demi Lovato - "Make a Wave"

K

• James Keelaghan - "River Run"
• The Kinks - "Apeman" and "God's Children"
• Klaatu - "Blue Smoke"
• Korpiklaani - "With Trees"

L

• Lamb of God - "Reclamation"
• Led Zeppelin - "That's the Way"
• Tom Lehrer - "Pollution"
• Julian Lennon - "Saltwater (Julian Lennon song)"
• Lil B - "Earth's Medicine"
• Linkin Park - "What I've Done"
• Kenny Loggins - "Conviction of the Heart" and "This Island Earth"
• Jeff Lynne - "Save Me Now"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - "All I Can Do Is Write About It" and "Tomorrow's Goodbye"
• Ben Lee - "I Love Pop Music"
• Lissie - "Mountaintop Removal"

M

• Macaco - "Mama Tierra"
• Madonna - "4 Minutes", "Love Makes the World Go Round" and "Hey You"
• Magpie_(folk_duo) - "Circle of Life"
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Messin'" and "Give Me The Good Earth"
• Marvin Gaye - "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
• Marillion - "Beautiful"
• Ziggy Marley - "Dragonfly"
• John Mayer - "Waiting on the World to Change"
• C.W. McCall - "There Won't Be No Country Music"
• Barry McGuire - "Eve of Destruction"
• Roger McGuinn - "The Trees Are All Gone"
• Megadeth - "Countdown to Extinction" and "Dawn Patrol"
• Metallica - "Blackened"
• MGMT - "Kids"
• Danny Michel - "Feather, Fur & Fin"
• Mickey 3D - "Respire"
• Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
• Moxy Früvous - "River Valley"
• Jason Mraz - "Only Human"
• Midnight Oil -" Beds Are Burning"
• Miyavi - "Gravity"
• Modest Mouse - "King Rat"
• Moondog - "Enough About Human Rights" and "Aska Me"
• Motion City Soundtrack - "Hello Helicopter"
• Mos Def - "New World Water"
• The Move - "Message from the Country"

N

• Graham Nash - "Barrel Of Pain"
• New Model Army - "Ballad"
• New Riders of the Purple Sage - "Cement, Clay And Glass" and "Garden of Eden"
• Randy Newman - "Burn On"
• Yannick Noah - "Aux arbres citoyens"
• Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You"
• Nuclear Assault - "Critical Mass" and "Inherited Hell"
• Gary Numan - "We're the Unforgiven"

O

• Wendy Oldfield - "Acid Rain"
• Omnia - "Earth Warrior"
• Opus III - "When You Made The Mountain"
• Orbital - "Impact (The Earth is Burning)"
• Ozzy Osbourne - "The Almighty Dollar" and "Dreamer"
• The Osmonds - "Crazy Horses"

P

• Pete Seeger - "Garden Song"
• Brad Paisley - "Gone Green"
• Tom Paxton - "Whose Garden Was This"
• Pearl Jam - "Do The Evolution" and "Whale Song"
• Pitbull - "Global Warming"
• The Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
• Paradise Oskar - "Da Da Dam"
• Pocahontas - "Just Around the Riverbend" and "Colors of the Wind"
• Hugh Prestwood - "Bristlecone Pine"
• John Prine - "Paradise"
• Public Enemy - "Don't Give Up The Fight"
• Chuck Pyle - "Keeping Time By The River"

Q

• Queen - "The Prophet's Song"
• Queensryche - "Resistance"
• Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Fresh Air" and "What About Me"

R

• Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees", "Idioteque", Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2), and "The Numbers"
• Chris Rea - "The Road to Hell"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Green Heaven", "Naked In The Rain", and "The Righteous & The Wicked"
• REO Speedwagon - "Love in the Future"
• Renaissance - "Ashes Are Burning" and "Cold Is Being"
• R.E.M. - "Cuyahoga" and "Fall on Me"
• Rise Against - "Collapse (Post-Amerika)", "Help Is on the Way", and "Ready To Fall"
• Xavier Rudd - "The Mother"
• Lou Reed - "Romeo Had Juliette", "Last Great American Whale", and "Sick Of You"
• Chris Rosser - "The Living In Me"
• David Roth - "Earth" , "I Don't Need a Bag"
• Rush - "Second Nature" and "The Trees"
• Roisin Murphy- "Dear Miami"

S

• Jim Salestrom - "Grateful"
• The Samples - "Another Disaster"
• Sarah Brightman - "Running"
• Scary Kids Scaring Kids - "The World as We Know it"
• Scorpions - "Humanity"
• Pete Seeger - "Garden Song"
• Skyclad - "Cry of the Land"
• Sarah Slean - "The Day We Saved the World"
• Hurricane Smith - "Don't Let It Die"
• Soundgarden - "Hands All Over"
• Sonata Arctica - "Wrecking the Sphere"
• Soja - "Mother Earth"
• Sparks - "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth"
• Spirit - "Fresh Garbage" and "Nature's Way"
• Stratovarius - "Paradise"
• Story of the year - "The Children Sing"
• The Submarines - "You, Me and Bourgeoisie"
• Sufjan Stevens - "Lord God Bird"
• Sweatshop Union - "Dirty Work" and "Labour Pains"
• System of a Down - "Aerials"
• Smokey Mountain - "Paraiso"
• Supersci - "Forests and Factories"
• Bob Seger - "It's Your World" and "The Fireman's Talkin'"

T

• Talk Talk - "Tomorrow's Started"
• Talking Heads - "Nothing But Flowers"
• Greg Tamblyn - "Amazon"
• Serj Tankian - "Harakiri"
• Tegan and Sara - "Our Trees"^[1]
• Testament (band) - "Green House Effect"
• They Might Be Giants - "Electric Car"
• Thin Lizzy - "Mama Nature Said"
• Think Tree - "Hire a Bird"
• Thirty Seconds to Mars - "A Beautiful Lie" and "Kings and Queens"
• Three Dog Night - "Out In The Country"
• Tim Minchin - "Canvas Bags"
• Die Toten Hosen - "Regen"
• Tower of Power - "There Is Only So Much Oil in the Ground"
• Devin Townsend - "Earth Day"
• Tryo - "L'hymne de nos campagnes"
• James Taylor - "Gaia"

U

• USA Is A Monster - "Florida"

V

• The Vines - "Killin The Planet"

W

• Widespread Panic - "Greta"
• Dar Williams - "What Do You Love More Than Love", "Go To The Woods", and "The Hudson"
• John Williamson - "Rip Rip Wood Chip"
• World Party - "Put the Message in the Box", "Ship of Fools", "Take It Up", and "Thank You World"
• Malvina Reynolds - "What Have They Done to the Rain"
• Ween - "Ocean Man"

X

• X-Ray Spex - "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo"
• Xavier Rudd - "Messages"

Y

• Thom Yorke - "And It Rained All Night" and "The Clock"
• Neil Young - "After the Gold Rush" and "Natural Beauty"
• Yoann Lemoine - "Evergreen"

Z

• Warren Zevon - "Run Straight Down"

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