Greening Red Rocks — during a rock festival

September 19, 2009 · Posted by in Environment, G.I.Y. 

Q. What’s red and green and really loud?

A. I don’t know. I just know what’s red and really loud.

I went to Red Rocks to see the Monolith Festival last weekend featuring tons of great bands. I did what little I can reasonably do when going to a rock festival that requires driving — you know, brought my own water bottle, carpooled attempted to reuse my own beer cup. (Yes, that’s attempted: when I handed my cup to the man pointedly and said, “another Singletrack,” he nodded knowingly, walked back to the tap, then threw away my cup and got a new one.)

In any case, I didn’t do any real reporting on the greening of Monolith — but Planet Green did.

And the verdict isn’t pretty — not for organizers, but for the concertgoers.

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3 Responses to “Greening Red Rocks — during a rock festival”

  1. joeth on September 19th, 2009 4:00 pm

    I was happy to see the festival's green initiatives, especially the fact that if you were following Monolith and Esurance on Facebook and Twitter, you heard them talk a lot about carpooling to the event.

    I think the sponsor quote at the end of Planet Green's post sums it up pretty well… "What's great about the greening-the-concerts movement is that there's always room for more."

    It's fantastic to see all the festivals trying to out-green each other, but expecting all the inebriated concertgoers to properly sort their composting, etc. just isn't going to happen. It's up to the festival organizers to take the biggest steps and try to guide people in the right direction, but ultimately people are there for the music, not a lifestyle lesson.

  2. Dave Burdick on September 20th, 2009 4:57 pm

    Totally agree. I just wish that making it easier for folks (by supplying a compost receptacle, for example) made more of a difference. It does in residential areas, but apparently not at a rock show, no matter how beautiful and natural the surrounding scenery is.

    Thanks for reading!

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