Pearl Jam are set to donate $100,000 to environmental groups in an effort to compensate for the size of the band's 'carbon footprint' when they are on tour. Saying that 5,000 tons of carbon were emitted on the last Pearl Jam tour, guitarist Stone Gossard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer "We can get a really relatively accurate picture of what that looks like over a year, and it's a considerable amount of carbon."
Amongst the organisations set to share the cash are the likes of the Cascade Land Conservancy and EarthCorps, which work on replenishing forests.