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  You should check out the Telluride Bluegrass Fest

  Just got back from 4 days in Telluride where TBF (hosted by Planet Bluegrass) went totally Carbon Neutral this year.

  "This year we are taking the historic final step toward a 100% carbon neutral festival by purchasing 4,111,699 KWh of electricity from renewable sources to offset the emissions from all festival travel to/from Telluride."

  http://www.bluegrass.com/green/

  It was a pretty amazing sight to see volunteers on top of three large dumpsters labeled: Compost, Recycle and Trash.  Beer cups were reused w/ cheaper beer if you brought your cup back - disposable cups were made of corn and fully compostable. Even those who were full "trashed" took the cheaper beer incentive to heart (yay New Belgium for the support).

  There was much talk throughout the festival of the environmental impact (including artist anhttp://www.bluegrass.com/green/d festivarian travel) w/ nonprofit booths located within the grounds to offer education on energy related topics.

  I believe the stage was powered by Biodiesel generators as well.

  There was even a sizable group of festivarians who traveled to Telluride by bike (amazing!!) who got lots of cheers from the crowd.

  The festival was over 10,000 people strong (obviously not Bonnaroo sized but still a good crowd) and did an amazing job of sorting types of trash, keeping people interested, and tying the town of Telluride into the whole thing (cups sold in town are also compostable and I think they do this year round).

  Anyway just thought I'd give a shout out to the folks at Planet Bluegrass - they are doing a great job!

  KristenOn Music festivals across the country aim to lessen their footprint posted 2 years, 4 months ago 7 Responses