By Becky Striepe •
November 2, 2009
One of my friends recently attended the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco and texted me about their awesome green initiatives. From the show. Yes, I’m sort of a nerd for this kind of thing.
We’re all about musicians lightening their footprints around here. According to the folks at Live Earth: “A single concert event can produce as little as 9,000 kilos (close 20,000 lbs) to as much as 90,000 kilos (197,000 lbs) of solid waste in a single day.” That’s a ridiculous amount of waste and doesn’t even take into account things like CO2 emissions from concertgoers driving to the venue or indirect emissions from the food and whatnot.
The folks at Treasure Island Fest set out to do things a little differently. Not only did they have a kickass lineup that’s making me more than a little bit jealous, they implemented all sorts of impressive green initiatives. Check our their greening and sustainability statement:
By Becky Striepe •
May 25, 2009
Phish is teaming up once again with Reverb Rock to lighten their summer tour’s carbon footprint!
[Phish at Hampton Coliseum, 2009. Creative Commons photo by Bryan Sereny]
Portland, Maine-based Reverb is a non profit organization that helps bands reduce their tours’ impacts through education and action. They’ve worked on over 70 tours and 1000 events since their launch in 2004, saving 62,608 tons of CO2 and reaching over 8 million fans! They helped Phish reduce the impact of their Hampton Coliseum shows earlier this year, and now they’ve announced some exciting initiatives for the summer tour!
By Becky Striepe •
February 25, 2009
By offering services from ride-sharing to Earth-friendly merch options, Reverb Rock helps concert-goers and -organizers lower their carbon footprints!
[Creative Commons photo by Joe Goldberg]
OK, I’ll admit it. On top of being a composting, rainwater harvesting, organic gardening hippie, I am also a huge Phish fan. You can imagine my delight when I got this in my email:
It’s summer, and you are sitting outside on the Great Lawn of Central Park, listening to a concert in New York City. You are surrounded by friends, you are enjoying a delicious picnic, and the music is great. The only way to improve this event would be to devise a smarter way for you and the thousands of other people at the concert to dispose of the plastic cups they are using to drink beer, soda, and water.
Enter Emery Goossens and Evan Eichorn, two New York Univeristy college students.
I was at a Guster concert a few weeks ago, when the lead singer/guitarist, Adam Gardner, encouraged concertgoers to offset their travel to the show by buying carbon offsets, in the form of wind tags at the merch booth. It turns out that in 2004 Gardner, and his wife, Lauren Sullivan, founded Reverb, a non-profit that seeks to educate music fans about environmentalism by greening up
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By Michael dEstries •
February 8, 2007
Fresh off the wires, it's come to our attention that former Vice-President Al Gore will tomorrow in London announce a massive series of concerts for this coming July to address climate change. The events, which will be a mix of music, film, and television will take place in London, Washington DC, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and Kyoto. The usual television specials from all the major broadcasters will follow to reach the rest of
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