Can't answer that quickly but I certainly advise your dad to check out their discography himself. Seriously.
Check this in the meantime if you like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin#Personal_life
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http://www.thebrpage.net/theanswer/?art ... ic_history
Graffin worked in the Ecology and Statistics department of Cornell University
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His latest book
Anarchy Evolution Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God is categorized in the "Life Sciences - Ecology" section @
Amazon.
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This interview might be of value for your father:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/art ... ligion.htm
some fragments:
...BYT: Do you find that it’s easier to get people jazzed about topics in the classroom or in a song?
Greg Graffin: That’s a good question that I go back and forth on every day, because I spend so much time on tour and I’ve got to justify it somehow in my intellectual life, because to me it wouldn’t feel right leaving my family behind. I've made a lot of sacrifices in my life to be able to be a performer. The way I justify it is that it is a higher calling. Part of that higher calling is that I believe that playing music can really engage larger audiences’ than lectures.
BYT: It's a delicate balance between writing catchy songs and having a concrete message in lyrics.
Greg Graffin: That’s also another thing I deliberate on because ultimately music is a piece of art and I believe a book like Consilience or Anarchy Evolution is as much art as science. And I know the feeling of creating Anarchy Evolution was a feeling of artistic creativity just like writing a song. However a song is so exceedingly distilled into two minutes, if you are a punk rock band it could be a minute and a half. You can't necessarily believe that people are going to feel the same way they feel reading a paragraph or reading a page, so it’s a different type of infusion.
BYT: And they put their own meaning into it as well, right?
Greg Graffin: It infuses them with a certain kind of a feeling and as an artist or as an author you just have to let go and accept that whatever that feeling is they are going to interprete that in their own way. However, I do believe that the feeling can leave them with an emptiness that needs to be filled around a particular topic. ...
... BYT: How do you instill in your children a love of science and music and things that you think are important if the education system fails to do so, or not fails but more or less is inadequate.
Greg Graffin: I provide an environment for them in which I encourage them to go outside and study nature. We go backpacking as a family. We own woods and streams and fields that we wander in, and they see me wandering in them and they know that there is something valuable about it. ...
... BYT: I guess that is why I would consider a conservationist even over a naturalist as someone who is working to conserve the planet, where as an anarchist would just fully let it be, let it struggle on it's path.
Greg Graffin: Which I agree with, and part of what I talk about is a movement called restoration ecology. Where if we can recognize that we've messed something up we’ve got to restore it. That is different than truly conserving things without allowing nature to runs it's course. We are sort of trying to let heal what we’ve wounded. So let's put it this way: one of the greatest ethics that I think has been promoted in the last 150 years is the wilderness ethic, and the wilderness ethic is that we have to conserve wilderness. But what is the point of conserving it? It is to let nature take its course, in all it's anarchic splendor. So in that case I am a conservationist and I am conservative when it comes to land development. I think we should have extremely tight restrictions on what can be done with the land that we have set aside as wilderness. Furthermore what that view does, taking an anarchic view, what it does is it makes it clear that we are not as close as we think to understanding the causes of evolution, which therefore is even more important that we put this land aside in order that we allow it to operate on its own terms. ...
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(source:
http://blogging.la/2007/03/01/punk-rock-professor/ )
Last fall, my department managed to woo some high profile professors to UCLA. The recently married professors brought with them lots of funding, prestige and the Harvard Civil Rights project. My peers were excited. These professors were “rock stars” in the field of educational research. They may have the status in academia, but outside of the “ivy-covered walls”, few know their names.
That’s not the case with Greg Graffin currently teaching Life Sciences 1 (evolution, ecology & biodiversity) to a few hundred freshman and sophomores at UCLA this quarter. Graffin fronts Bad Religion and has been balancing science and music for many years. The Daily Bruin profiled him today:
Listen in on one of Greg Graffin’s lectures and you’ll encounter an eloquent, soft-spoken man. The life science professor might even crack a joke here or there, keeping his audience captivated as he delves into the mysteries of evolution, ecology and the diversity of life.
It’s hard to believe that this same man fronts Bad Religion, the band widely known as the “Godfathers of Punk.”
“I get a lot less sleep than most people,” Graffin said. “Of course, there are a lot of people – researchers on campus, who are living in their labs and accomplishing a great deal, and doctors who are always on call – these are people just as productive as me, except my other half of productivity goes into music and songwriting.”
I'll try to post some songs later on.
A band which absolutely should not be overlooked is Midnight Oil.
Through a long and distinguished career, the band became known for its driving hard-rock sound, intense live performances and political activism, particularly in aid of anti-nuclear,
environmentalist and indigenous causes.
On their EP
Species Deceases is a song called Pictures (1985). Watch its videoclip.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22akq ... ures_music
I doubt if you can think of a more direct and clear example of a band who angrily fought against destruction of nature. Singer
Peter Garrett is a politician now.
Peter Robert Garrett, AM, MP (born 16 April 1953), is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.
Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002. He served as President of the Australian Conservation Foundation for a total of ten years, and in 2003 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the environment and music industry.
He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales, since October 2004. After the Labor Party won in the November 2007 election, Garrett was appointed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. On 8 March 2010, his portfolio title was changed to Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts. He continued in this role in Julia Gillard's first Ministry. He was re-elected at the 2010 election and was appointed Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He was sworn into this portfolio on 14 September 2010 as a member of the Second Gillard Ministry. In 2009, the French Government appointed Garrett an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2010, WWF Australia and International presented him with their Leaders for a Living Planet award.
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Just like Bad Religion I advise you to tell your father to dive into the whole discography.
Bad Religion and
Midnight Oil are some of the best bands he can use.
Rock and Ecology -> Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining
http://rockandecology.blogspot.com/2008 ... -1990.html
Rock and Ecology -> Midnight Oil: Redneck Wonderland
http://rockandecology.blogspot.com/2009 ... night.html
Rock and Ecology -> Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
http://rockandecology.blogspot.com/sear ... l+and+dust
Rock and Ecology -> Midnight Oil: Earth, Sun and Moon
http://rockandecology.blogspot.com/2008 ... night.html
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I'll update the list when I find songs.
). Could you please post some songs, 'cause searching through their discographies would require too much work 
