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who says you cant go back? [Jul. 8th, 2007|07:04 am]
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Local Boy (me) Does Good!
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...So I come back to my home town for a few days and look what happens, I end up on the cover of the newspaper (...with no handcuffs!) I mean I came back to help this writer, who was writing about the Montréal Jazz Festival (the biggest festival in the world according to the Guinness people-- world records, not stout). It seems that they were busy saying they are greening the fest, and "an industry leader in their greening ready to show other events how to do it" .... and If that's the industry leader, we're in trouble. Fortunately, they aren't. And the writer knew that, after all he was out on a particular farm in Tennessee last week, and you-know-who gave him a full-on green tour...

at the time he didn't even know i was from Montreal, but when he found out i was Montréalais he asked me to come to the Jazz fest and help him see if the greening was just greenwashing (turns out it was more like green-rinsing, here, read all about it). So I did, and I knew that he was going to reference Bonnaroo as an example of a green show... but I had no idea that it was going to be like this. And above the fold, wow! Thanks Gazette! Thanks Benjamin! Hopefully this will lead to really greening the Jazz Fest ...and the Just Pour Rire ...and any other Montreal green fests (already working on Osheaga)... I miss my city!
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Bonnaroo 2007: an intimate green gatherig :p [Jun. 30th, 2007|07:07 pm]
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the tents are down, the kids safely home...
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It's two weeks since.. and my throat has almost finally coughed out the last bits of Tennessee drought-dust, now recuperated, and almost done catching up with everything back home after i took off for two weeks, once again, as you probably know, to moonlight at Bonnaroo and help with the greening (there are many others involved in greening Bonnaroo-- the amazing clean vibes waste geniuses, the planet roo team & their education & outreach "green ambassadors" the concessions peeps, art & decor peeps, electrical and operations, and of course Suprefly Presents, the promoters, who are willing to step and help turn this long strange trip into a boundary stretching green experiment).

So 100 bands and i got to only see 1 1/2* shows!! (gotta maybe pile some extra work on my greening volunteers next year and catch some choonz, while I'm there and all... *i did get to catch Apollo Sunshine however who are my favorite, so it's no big deal. really. even though there were so many I would have loved to see. Then again, my trailer was about 50M behind the second stage (what is called "Which Stage?" as opposed to the main stage which is called "What Stage?"). so i got to hear A LOT of shows like White Stripes, Franti, Franz Ferdinand, Flaming Lips (saw a little of that one)... But really, the music is fun, and i love live music, but that's not why i go, right, but to help create the greenest event the world has ever seen (which we're now into year two of what i think will take 3-5 years max before it becomes the headturning green experience that i know its going to become but i can't tell y'all just everything right here... there's some behind the scenes stuff that you'll just have to wait for..

Still all in all it was way greener than last year, and still so many things to tweak more (a lot of time for me is also spent scurrying around the grounds-- in an EV-- taking notes on what needs to be fixed, redone, greener more!). But we had some new milestones, like 300 gallons of VOC free paint, all paper (programs, newspapers) printed on 100% recycled, and programs even on hemp/flax/preconsumer/ postconsumer/FSC blended paper.... and some WAY heavy meetings with lots of green energy peeps and other dignitaries figuring out how pest to proceed with the waycool green techs... Much more to tell you about... thats for sure.. but for now here's some other people's writing on it....

we got a nod from Little Stevie Van Zandt (yes BadaBing Owner Silvio-- and/or mandolin player for The Boss) in the Hollywood Reporter, here's what we did for the 550 Tons of CO2 still emitted by the fest, and here's a pretty good evaluation of everything from blogger JP Gorman who the rest of the week had only gushing reviews of the fest though here, not so much... also there's John Parles from the NYT kicks in with his own effort to help us green by going after a certain type of fan (the kind who miss a lot of the action sitting in their car with the AC running) Just watch out John, next year we're working on getting Uncle Wade out to the event, so there will be another green NYT reporter on the prowl....

ok thats about it for now, but i wanted to share this with you: it's a pic of my greening volunteer, Levi, who in almost no time (with a little help) got a school bus, turned it into an SVO straight veggie bus, jimmy rigged two PV panels on the roof (and retractable solar shower) and filled the bus up with seven of his pals (who were all volunteers recycling for clean vibes). He was an awesome addition to the team! Enthusiastic, levelheaded, dependable and keen for green! A true pleasure having him lighten my load and never stop texting me: "I'm at the Roots show with my GF now.. but do you need anything?" And if i did he would take off to help me. Levi and his clan rock!
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here's levi showing off the SVO kit sponsored by LoveCraft (and a close up)
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..they drove back home to California on the veggie oil that had been frying food for the 80,000 hungry kids all weekend (it was collected and filtered for them, cause they're such sweeties!)
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Unlocked: GREENAROO [was: yay! my new job!!] [May. 31st, 2006|08:10 am]
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[this was actually posted April 1st, but was "friends-only" because the PR had yet to be made P, now the word is out! Bonnaroo is going green (and this year is only the first step, i can assure you of that! So, I figured I might as well let the P see the post. I'm going to have a ne wupdate very soon, and then commencing in about 12 days, I'll be reporting from the frontlines... so for anyone who didn't knwo, enjoy! And for everyopne else, well there will be something about Rona Ambrose, soon, I guearantee it!... ~lee]
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The Bonnaroo Music Festival just hired me to green the whole festival


What a killer gig! I just got back from Manchester Tennessee where in another 10 weeks or so, 100,000 kids will descend into the south to soak up the tunes and good vibes provided by the 6th annual Bonnaroo festival. And it's my job to work it so that it's the greenest rock festival ever! :DDD

OK first off who's playing:
Radiohead, Beck, Cypress Hill, Matisyahu, Blackalicious, Oysterhead, Death Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, The Streets, Damian J-Rock Marley, Ben Folds, Steele Pulse, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, Medeski Martin & Wood, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Seu Jorge (the life Aquatic guy), Dios (Malos), Common, oh and like 50 other bands (there's 12 stages on 700 acres!) ...its fun too! there's also a movie theater, a dj academy, a silent disco (?), a vending mini downtown, and then oneamy faves PlanetRoo: an earth conscious hands-on space (with and organic cafe and bike powered smoothies)!!

My job is the kinda thing you'd expect from me. I work within each department making sure that the products they choose and materials they use are as green as possible. So all cutlery and cups will be those new compostable ones (we plan on having a few tons of compost, like 6 or 7!). The electricity used to come from Diesel, now (for this year) it will be Biodiesel (in future years with more than 10 weeks to go we will get it to fuel cells), all the tshirts are going to be made from organic cotton and hemp, the tickets and posters >hemp, and even for the CDs and DVDs (they sell them on site) we're going to use my buddies hemp plastic cases. And many many more little ways to minimize waste, reduce footprint, and create a supa green festi!! Woo Hoo I'm pretty stoked, you might imagine. Yay.
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700 acres of sun, fun, rock n' hedonism and: green propaganda and solutions!

Personally if you have a bunch of 17-25 year olds who don't really know about ecological issues, this is a great way to reach them. Have fun, enjoy and see how easy it is to be green! The planetRoo will also have a lot of hands-on tables and exhibits, how to convert your vehicle to run on used french fry oil, solar DIY panels u can make, car races with little toy hydrogen powered cars (the H comes from little teensy solar panels), and still looking for some more booths, but he! it's a brand new job!!
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Well I just wanted to share that good news with y'all (Y'all as in "Y'all come back now yhea") southern hospitality, an amazing team ready to make a party for 100,000 and green green green!!! :DDD
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