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Pearl Jam, Kanye West, Zero Carbon Emissions to Star at 2008 Bonnaroo

Death Cab for Cutie performs at the 2006 Bonnaroo festival. (Image credit: Truejustice at Wikimedia Commons under a GNU Free Documentation license.)If you thought the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was cool in years past, wait’ll you get a look at this year’s lineup … not only the talent on stage, but the starring sustainability efforts backstage too.

The four-day camping festival, held annually in Manchester, Tennessee, since 2002 has grabbed accolades galore just for the great variety of performers it attracts (this year’s lineup includes everyone from Pearl Jam, Chris Rock, Kanye West and B.B. King to Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Willie Nelson and Janeane Garofalo). But it’s taken increasingly awesome steps each year to green the event onstage and off, and this year is no exception.

Dearly departed encouraged to do their bit for Global Warming

Hi. I have just seen this interesting article that I thought you might like to read also.

“A local authority on the edge of Greater Manchester has noted that one group of Britons are failing to do their bit to reduce Britain’s Carbon emissions.

The dead in the jurisdiction of Tameside Council are simply not pulling their weight. The council has now arrived at a rather daring solution.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3149010.ece

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