Welcome to the Sustainable Festivation blog
Surely this blog is long overdue. Brian has had the blog infrastructure ready for a few weeks now. My excuse? Finding time to write can be umm…hard as is getting in the habit of doing it on a regular basis. But, it’s all about breaking old habits and forming new ones.
And with so much growing interest in reducing our footprint on everything from the energy we use to the food we eat, this blog is now another avenue to pass on the latest info that comes across my desk almost daily. Frequently I try to scan this stuff but just as often I have to file it for later consumption, especially during the festival season. So hopefully those who find the myriad issues surrounding sustainable living interesting reading will scan some of this info and share your thoughts and ideas as well.
And with that, onward we go towards the 2008 festival season. See all of you soon!
May 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Anyone from New York, NJ or CT interested in a paying rideshare passenger to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival? Good company, good navigation skills and traveling light, will help pay gas/tolls.
2009 Idea: a rideshare section on this site might help lower the carbon profile of the event…
blingchester@gmail.com
May 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Great idea, Bill. Have a look at the “Hitching a Ride” board on our Festivarian Forum - http://www.festivarian.com.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Hi there! Every year my friends and I wonder why there’s so little (and such treacherous) parking for motorcycles and scooters close to the festivals in Lyons. My car takes a lot more space and uses a lot more gas but there’s only room for a few motorcycles and it’s in the drainage ditch. If I park out with the cars, the chances of someone hitting my bike in the dark or driving away with it are just too high. Can something be done? It’s worth some thought. Thanks for the forum!
Cathleen
May 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Hey Steve:
I read you’re going carbon neutral for Telluride Bluegrass; any chance you folks are able to do the same for Song School/Folks Fest?
May 16th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
even Ostriches don’t really bury their heads in the sand….
yet by some wave of a magic wand, Telluride BF is carbon neutral!!!
I don’t think in reality it works that way!
You have only created some feel good voodoo; meanwhile thousands of tons of actual CO2 are about to be dumped into the atmosphere as well meaning (mostly) folks drive or fly hundreds to thousands of miles to the most remote place in the US and the big generators on the grounds run 18 hours a day!
Pogo said it best: We have seen the enemy and it is us.
Scratch another glacier for Festival!
May 16th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
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