Noise Pop learned a lot about creating environmentally-friendly, sustainable and carbon-neutral events last fall at the Treasure Island Music Festival, and this year we’re starting to bring those smart ideas to the Noise Pop Festival.
Here’s a few of the things we’re doing as a business:
- Well over 50% of our printed materials utilize recycled paper with soy-based inks.
- Promoting mass transit options to the festival with our friends at Alternetrides.
- Calculating and offsetting our carbon footprint with Carbonfund.org’s reforestation project.
If you would like to know how to measure (and reduce) your personal carbon footprint, check out www.carbonfund.org
And here are 5 super simple things you can do to help our environment:
1. Change your light bulbs! If every American home replaced just one light
bulb with an Energy Start qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to
light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual
energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of
more than 800,000 cars.
2. Stop buying bottled water! 1.5 millions tons of plastic are used to create 89 billion liters of water each year. Besides the sheer number of plastic bottles produced each year, the energy required to manufacture and transport these bottles to market severely drains limited fossil fuels. Buy an inexpensive (and stylish - www.mysigg.com) stainless steel water bottle and turn on the tap instead!
3. Take control of your mailbox! Get off junk mail and catalog mailing lists and stop the flow of unnecessary paper. Check out organizations like www.greendimes.org - they will get stop up to 90% of your junk mail and plant trees on your behalf!
4. Recycle your cell phones and other e-waste. Reuse and recycling prevents electronic items from reaching landfills - creating less waste, providing usable items to organizations that need them and recapturing valuable resources. Go to www.earth911.org to find local recycling resources.
5. Say no to plastic and paper bags! Plastic bags don’t decompose and paper bags take even more energy to produce and cause more pollution than plastic bags! What to do? Bring alternative bags (cloth tote bags work well) with you when you shop – or reuse old plastic and paper bags.