Win Osheaga Tix - Cleaning Up Our Act
by alanah
According to a recent press release from Osheaga, the festival will be doing it’s part to minize the environmental impact of bringng 1000s of fans to Ile Sainte-Helene for the weekend:
“Osheaga will partner once again with the Consortium Éco-Logic to ensure that anything that can be recycled will be recycled from the Osheaga site. The official beer and major event partner, Molson Dry is going green for the Osheaga Festival. All beer sold onsite will be served in fully compostable glasses made from corn… And this year, the Festival will also collaborate with the David Suzuki Foundation.”
I’m curious to know more about the collaboration with David Suzuki and why they chose to support that West-Coast organization over a local one, but i didn’t get any answers to my email requestion by “presstime” (ok, more like bedtime). Still, taking the environmental impact of an event into account is commendable and I don’t mean to question their good intentions.
Since Indyish and a lot of our readers are involved in event-planning, I think it would be usefull to get together some links to artists and organizations who have come up with concrete ways to reduce the environmental impact of arts events. My hope is to create a “library” that we and other artists can refer to for inspiration and guidance when we are involved in putting on our own shows and events.
Everybody who posts a relevant comment in the next 24 hours will be entered in Indyish’s draw for a pair of tickets to the Osheaga festival. This contest is open until Thursday August 30th at 3pm, but you are encouraged to please continue to post useful links as you discover them! Thanks for contributing!
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ok, not entering but contributing to the library effort:
This from a fest in Anigonish-
“Evolve is committed to being one of Canada’s greenest events by utilizing renewable energy sources, reducing waste and environmental impact and most significantly providing a forum to network and learn more about social and environmental issues. Evolve strives to set a standard for sustainable festivals by using recycled paper and vegetable-based inks for all printed materials, biodegradable plates and utensils for food vending, organic cotton and hemp t-shirts and more.”
source url is long so here.
Sounds good, and hifives and props for the effort! … but from the evolve website the emphasis seems mostly to be on the Awareness tent - I’d love to see examples of events that tackle the whole thorny problem of all those people traveling to get there. Maybe they work on that in the tent.
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 4:09 pm [permalink]
Here is a relevant article about reducing the environmental impact of live events.
http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/069702.php
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 10:12 pm [permalink]
I haven’t really thought about green events before. so i didnt reall know where to look.. but i did some digging and found this website that lists green event planning resources. http://www.ecospeakers.com/foreventmgrs/greenevents/index.html
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 10:15 pm [permalink]
I don’t know if it’s much of a contribution, but I know that this year the Vans warped Tour made it’s contribution to reducing the waste issue during concert. There were booths set up where you could bring cans… I don’t think it’s the greatest “greening” plan, but it’s still a thoughful thing to do, since no one forced them to do it.
Cheers
Posted on August 30th, 2007 at 2:25 pm [permalink]
hey- one more to add, more an example of bad then good though.
burning man.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/08/addis?currentPage=2
” Burning Man should stop the disingenuous Green Man immediately. It’s all a lie. If you want to know how much a of a total lie it is, run a Google satellite photo of Burning Man right now and count the number of RVs there. And they’re telling me it’s an environmental movement? Bullshit. There are people sucking gas up there faster than they are passing it.
Black Rock Intelligence advocated the first Olympic RV Gas Tank Puncturing competition this year, offering prices to the top three participants. And while the gas was spilling out of all the gas tanks we were going to have people collect it and then open the first Black Rock Intelligence gas station: Set up at the exit of Burning Man and sell gas for $27 per gallon to RVs only.
Burning Man is offering no real alternatives to the current environmental crisis. The only one is wood-burning stoves for cooking. We’re living in a world with 6 billion people and their only suggestion is wood-burning stoves? My advice: Stop doing the cocaine. It’s starting to eat your brains.”
Posted on August 31st, 2007 at 9:47 am [permalink]