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Category Archives: Festivals

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Jam Cruise Delivers 10K Trees, 12K Pairs of Shoes to Haiti

On the most recent sailing of Jam Cruise, the annual music-festival-at-sea powered by driving beats, unique collaborations, enthusiastic dancing and a never-ending supply of smiles, the MSC Poesia visited ports in Haiti and Jamaica and partnered with various organizations via Positive Legacy, on several humanitarian … Read More

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Build Cob, Harvest Rainwater at Harmony Festival’s Eco-Village

Harmony Festival's Eco-Village is a dynamic place of connection, education and growth. This year's attractions included cob building, rainwater harvesting, bicycle-powered composting, and the Earth Peace Mandala Project.

Solar PV farm on site of the Glastonbury Music Festival

Glastonbury Installs UK’s Biggest Private Solar-Power Plant

The photovoltaic (PV) modules will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of 40 homes annually. Power generated will be used, in the first instance, for Eavis' Worthy Farm and any left over will be fed into the National Grid.

Workers bundle recycled cardboard at Oya music festival in Norway

Oya Music Festival in Norway Pushes Green Envelope

With music festivals in the U.S. continuing to try and one-up each other in terms of their sustainability initiatives, one festival in Norway may have beaten them all.

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Outside Lands Knows Sustainability

Many big music festivals are sloppy, dirty affairs--trash is strewn all over the place, there are few easy options for recycling and composting, but San Francisco's Outside Lands is different.

Solar-powered stage at Outside Lands in San Francisco

Outside Lands Does Sustainability (PICS)

Here are just a couple of the eco-interactive installations found at Outside Lands on Saturday.

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Recycle Old Festival Wristbands into Hipster Keychains

Music festivals that allow patrons to move in and out of the festival grounds need to keep tabs on who has a ticket and who doesn’t. Because actual paper tickets can get lost and can also be used to get non-ticket holders inside the venue, … Read More

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Prince Charles Makes Suprise Visit to Glastonbury Festival (Video)

Prince Charles, long an advocate for protecting tropical rainforests, made a surprise visit to the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK.

Main entry to festival at Bonnaroo.

Bonnaroo’s Amazing Compost Cycle

Anytime you assemble 75,000 people in one place there will undoubtedly be some waste — and especially when those people are hungry, thirsty music fans and that place is the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, one of the largest and most ambitious … Read More

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Bonnaroo in Pictures: The Fans

Photographs from the ninth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Machester, Tennessee from June 10-13, 2010. Photos used with permission from the author, Richard Allen.