A Greener Festival
A Greener Festival Ltd. is a not-for-profit company committed to help music and arts events and festivals around the world adopt environmentally efficient practices through providing information, by providing education resources and by swapping ideas. Their website provides information about how environmentally efficient methods are currently employed at music and arts festivals and acts as a forum for discussion about how the impact of festivals on the environment can be limited at future events. They hope to do this by by providing information on the best ideas for greener festivals from around the world.
http://www.agreenerfestival.com
WHAT IS A GREENER FESTIVAL?
A Greener Festival Ltd is a not-for-profit company committed to help music and arts events and festivals around the world adopt environmentally efficient practices through providing information, by providing education resources and by swapping ideas. Their website provides information about how environmentally efficient methods are currently employed at music and arts festivals and acts as a forum for discussion about how the impact of festivals on the environment can be limited at future events. They hope to do this by providing information on the best ideas for greener festivals from around the world.
Find out more information here: HTTP://WWW.AGREENERFESTIVAL.COM
To make a real difference everyone should try to adopt other policies such as using public transport, lift sharing, cycling or walking wherever you can, recycling and caring for the environment. These all help to reduce your environmental impact. Also if you’re going to T in the Park this year why not go the extra distance and make a donation to help create Festival Wood. T in the Park fans can contribute to A Greener Festival's Festival Wood by making a donation. Just £3 will plant a tree and £5 will plant two!
Festival Wood is going to be a brand new wood planted by volunteers from AGreenerFestival.com to symbolise music fans' commitment to protecting the environment. The planned 5 acre wood will be planted on grazing land and will be a mix of native deciduous trees and we hope that the wood will be colonised by wild birds, mammals andinsects as it grows.
Absolutely anything helps and if we exceed the target we will just find more land and plant more trees! We are also hoping to be able to buy a biodigester to eat up waste food and other organic material and produce renewable gas in the process!
TEXT 'FESTIVAL' or 'festival' TO 82540 and you will plant a tree - £3 will be donated.
TEXT 'GREENER' or 'greener' to 82540 and you will plant two trees - this will cost you £5
The money you donate will be deducted from your phone - it's called reverse billing.
FESTIVALS’ ALBUM TAKES ON A GREEN THEME
A new double CD featuring some of the best of British new talent is being released by campaign and advice group A Greener Festival with bands tipped from bookers at six of Britain’s best loved festivals including the City Showcase, Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, T in the Park, Kendal Calling and Solfest. FESTIVAL HARVEST will be released as a limited edition double CD and will carry the IG (Industry Green) mark, the award from cross music industry climate change initiative Julies Bicycle which identifies a product as committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Featured bands include the recently crowned Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition winners Ellen & The Escapades, UK Festival Awards critic nominees Yearner Babies, The Orkid, the outstanding four piece girl band from Plymouth, Lykez, the brilliant and innovative urban act from London, Doncaster’s hot new talent The Beaus along with outstanding contributions from Mayhew and A Band Called Quinn, both from Scotland
A Greener Festival co-founder Ben Challis who compiled the album said “Working with six of the top music festivals and two regional music initiatives really unearthed some magical talent. It’s an added bonus for us that they all have agreed to support green festivals and the fight against climate change.”
Asked about the bands on the album, producer Luke Westbury said “We asked everyone to put forward their top tips – in any genre – and it was interesting to see that some of the acts like Lincoln’s Changing Horses, Kent’s Tom Williams & The Boat and Leeds based Tiger Shadow were tipped by two or more different festivals. Regional music groups Music South West and Plugged In Yorkshire both put forward some fantastic choices and the festivals’ choices, including Glastonbury, T in the Park and City Showcase, really helped us to cover the length and breadth of Britain in our search for the best new talent. Many of the acts will be playing live at Festivals across Britain this year. The double album features 28 acts – representing the 28 week UK festival season that runs from the 5th March (Cwlym Celtaidd, Porthcawl) to the 19th September (Alchemy Festival, Lincolnshire) according to the leading festival website, www.virtualfestivals.com
Release Date was the 7 June as a download and double CD.
This album has been produced to support the work of A Greener Festival, the campaign and advice group that aims to reduce the environmental impact of music festivals around the world in the fight against climate change and pollution. You can find out more at www.agreenerfestival.com
