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Awards
23 more A Greener Festival awards confirmed
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 8 September 2010
A record 23 UK and European music festivals have been awarded the A Greener Festival seal of approval for their efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their events. They join nine Aussie festivals who were given A Greener Festival awards earlier this year. A final list of recipients for 2010 will be published next month.
In the meantime, confirmed eco-friendly fests include (UK ones first):
Isle of Wight Festival
The Big Session Festival
The Wood Festival
Lounge On The Farm
Sonisphere
The Glastonbury Festival
Wireless Festival
Splendour 2010
The Bristol Harbour Festival
The Sunrise Celebration
The City of London Festival
Standon Calling
The Summer Sundae Weekender
Croissant Neuf Summer Party
SOS 4.8 (Spain)
Open Air St Gallen (Switzerland)
The Øya Festival (Norway)
Malmo Festivalen (Sweden)
Grassroots (Jersey)
Rock For People (Czech Republic)
Open Air Festival (Czech Republic)
Hadra Trance Festival (France)
Rototom Reggae Sunsplash (Spain)
A Greener Festival co-founder Ben Challis told CMU: “We have had a record number of entries in 2010 and we are on track to make a record breaking 50 plus awards this year (up from 37 festivals in 2009, 32 festivals in 2008 and sixteen festivals in 2007 when the awards scheme began). This is particularly impressive, not least because of the economic downturn but also because year on year we have raised the bar and made our Awards scheme more and more focussed on a meaningful and practical responses to climate change and pollution”.
He continued: “We are also delighted that we have had more European and Australian festivals entering, new entrants in the UK and growing interest in the USA, and also that a number of festivals are entering into other schemes such as the 10:10 campaign as well as using established and proven tools from [music business eco-group] Julie’s Bicycle to measure and then reduce greenhouse gas emissions”.
