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Tips to Be More Eco-Friendly When You Go Out

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It’s no brainer that when attending any kind of music festival that efficiency is the main goal for most, but sometimes things that are quick fixes can also be detrimental to the environment, and even to your wallet. The more cash and products that are bought and used, the less likely you are able to sustain them for future keep – in this case future festivals. BBC Earth reported noted that per UK festival goers is the equivalent of over 2.7kg (almost 6lbs!) of waste per day. Another article by FLOWATER also reported that in conjunction to 52% of Americans attending a live music event per year, the majority of these events sell single-use plastic water bottles – these festivals can contribute to 107 tons of waste, and only 20% of it are recycled.

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Coming Back Greener: Bye Bye Plastic Launches Sustainable Program

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Music festivals make plenty of green, but are they green enough? It’s no secret music festivals produce an alarming number of waste and carbon emissions. In the United States alone festival-goers produce 53,000 tons of waste each year. While the pandemic forced many cancellations and burned holes in pockets, there was a COVID-19 silver lining. 569,790,848 pounds of single-use products didn’t get used. Artists are taking note and planning for a greener return when touring music festivals and club shows.

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America Recycles Day: Orca Sound Project Is Helping the Music Industry Make Progress

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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Recycling is important because it helps preserve the planet, and America Recycles Day (November 15) is a perfect time to acknowledge players in the music industry who are making an impact. Recycling is a fairly simple thing to do yet companies face several challenges including a lack of industry expertise to help streamline processes. Knowing that festivals have a bad ecological footprint, eco-friendly music festivals are on the rise. UK-based project Orca Sound Project is setting the bar for many music event organizers.
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Premiere: Antechamber’s Vinyl Release Serves Up Glacial Techno

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Antechamber’s vinyl release features four new tracks bringing uncompromising sounds for the mature palette. “Susurrus,” Antechamber’s (alias Codex Empire) third track off his forthcoming Archaic Idol EP, pulses in an organic sense tapping into a primordial vision. The British born now Vienna-based producer blends sounds of opposing claustrophobia feelings with a bold transporting musicality that reveals 25 years of perfecting a craft.

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ADE Green: Spearheading The Campaign For Circular Festivals World Over

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ADE Green is one of the festival’s key programs, focusing on sustainability and the social components and innovation needed to make it happen.

In today’s world, with electronic music festivals getting bigger than ever and our scene impacting the world more and more every day, the need for sustainability and green initiatives is paramount. Presented by ADE, Absolut and other key ADE partners, this year’s ADE Green program seeks to tackle some key questions pertaining to these subjects:

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How Clubs and Other Event Venues Can Be More Sustainable and Profitable

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Clubs and other music venues have benefited greatly in recent years with the increasing patronage of live and electronic music fans. In the United States in particular, business has been great for many of these venues as electronic music continues to boom and spaces are now being filled to the brim during events of all sizes and types.

However, there are challenges that still remain. The main one remains instability, essentially the fact that the revenue that these venues depend on is as unpredictable as ever. Thus, on top of ensuring events are successful by using the Industry Resources we provide on our site, we also highly encourage venues take alternative action to ensure continued operation.

Brendon Anthony, the director of the Texas Music Office, suggests a couple of steps that venues should undertake to make their business more sustainable and profitable.

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The DGTL Revolution: Leading The Way In Festival Sustainability

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Born in Amsterdam as a two-day festival, DGTL has quickly expanded with editions now taking place in Barcelona and São Paolo in Brazil, as well as hosted curated showcases during ADE.

The DGTL 2017 edition will take place on April 15th and 16th during Easter Weekend, once again providing a differing festival experience than its competitors by bringing in heavyweights in techno and house, paired up with local and international emerging talent. The roster of talent, which this year includes acts such as Speedy J, Maceo Plex, Dixon, Lee Burridge, Motor City Ensemble and Mind Against, is all housed on impressive stages within a raw, industrial setting and cutting-edge audio-visual productions.

On top of its musical programming and curated attendee experience, DGTL is also leading the way in festival sustainability thanks to its DGTL Revolution initiative. The program aims to always keep sustainability top-of-mind, through various concerted efforts that see the festival not only raise awareness on the subject of sustainability but constantly search for technological innovations to reduce waste, lower CO2 emissions and stimulate participation from attendees to do the same. We recently tackled the urgent need for sustainability in the music industry, a goal DGTL has been tackling for years now.

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The Need for Sustainability in Today’s Music Industry

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More and more artists are prioritizing the need for sustainability in today’s music industry. They are slowly transforming music parties into greener more environment-friendly festivals. It all begins with small initiatives such the single-use of plastic bottles and the technology that allows tour trucks to utilize sustainable biodiesel to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In ecology, sustainability (from sustain and ability) is the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive indefinitely and as part of the ecosystem. It is up to each one of us that inhabit this beautiful planet to do our part to help attain homeostasis without causing further harm to the environment. More importantly in our industry, it’s imperative for each one of us to to act out and promote the need for sustainability.

As a producer, you can help out by producing more environment-friendly festivals and put a stop on wasteful party practices. Here are some of the biggest festivals that have adopted the “leave no trace behind” policy and practices recycling and other means just to cut down C02 emissions: Grassroots, Outside Lands, Sweet Life, Lollapalooza, and Lighting In A Bottle in the States, or DGTL in Amsterdam. There’s plenty more out there, with festivals, big and small, old and new, rising to the occasion to forward as many green initiatives as they can.

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