Posted on August 20th 2008
Source: UnLimited/CMU, Wednesday August 20
The next release from Moshi Moshi will be a new EP from The Wave Pictures, but this will be an EP with a difference, as it will be recorded and released in a way that produces as little carbon as possible. An eco-EP if you like. The band and their engineer […]
Posted on August 15th 2008
Fans going to Pukkelpop in Belgium, who have already been able to take advantage of free train travel to the 50,000 capacity festival, will now be able to take a free bus from anywhere in the country, following an expansion of the event’s green efforts. This year’s festival, headlined by the Killers, Manic Street Preachers, […]
Posted on August 15th 2008
Jason Turgeon has posted up two blogs on the greening of the US’s Rothbury Festival and compares Rothbury’s efforts with the Bonnaroo Festival, long acknowledged as a leader in environmentally friendly events.
“It’s been 5 days now since Rothbury ended, and I’m still caught up in the post-festival bliss that you get from a really […]
Posted on August 14th 2008
Eighteen UK and international festivals are the first recipients of the prestigious 2008 Greener Festival Award for their efforts in promoting environmentally friendly music festivals. In the UK, recipients of the leading eco-award included Latitude, the Glastonbury Festival, the Camden Green Fair and the Cambridge Folk Festival, all praised by the award organisers for their green […]
Posted on August 10th 2008
The unpredictable summer weather has meant that this weekend’s Pickering Folk Festival has had to be cancelled at the last minute after a site inspection revealed the site covered in standing water. The festival’s website states It is raining now and more heavy rain is forecast over the next three days so the event has been cancelled […]
Posted on July 28th 2008
The new lights which the Greater London Authority plan to install in Trafalgar Square will cover the whole spectrum of colours but will be much greener than the current set of halogen bulbs. The current lights are only 20 years old but are already judged to be beyond repair, especially as the large halogen bulbs cost £1000 a pop […]
Posted on July 14th 2008
Posted by Richard - Radiohead Tour Production Manager on the Radiohead website on 30 June 2008
In 2003, the year of the last major Radiohead tour, the lighting system required an electricity supply of 600amps 3phase (that’s 1800A). A kettle, being one of the larger consumers of power in the home, pulls between 8 and […]
Posted on July 14th 2008
By Kristin Underwood, San Diego, CA on 07.13.08 for Treehugger
This years Coachella festival was the first of its kind with its own train and train station. To help reduce the carbon footprint of a 3-day music festival held in the desert, organizers found a way to make one giant carpool – that came in the […]
Posted on June 30th 2008
Each week millions upon millions of exuberant human beings head out of their houses and into nightclubs to expend large amounts of energy on the dance-floor. Mobilising vast social groups each and every week clubbing remains one of the few areas of society untouched by the green message. All this is about to change as […]
Posted on June 28th 2008
If you are one of the thousands of music fans travelling to T in the Park, Wizard or a festival further afield this summer, Kate Hodal looks at how reducing your carbon footprint needn’t cost the Earth
Published: 28/06/2008, The Press and Journal
HOME to more than 450 music festivals a year, ranging from the small (2,000 […]