TicketSellers and ecolibrium announce the beginning of a 3-year partnership to conduct the UK Festival Industry’s largest ever travel data survey of crew and artists, at the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) Congress, 1st February 2024. It is widely understood that travel and transport is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions at greenfield music festivals, […]
In 2022, Shambala, UK (capacity 25,000) took several steps to further its long-term sustainable travel strategy. Measures included: All these measures significantly reduced Shambala’s year-on-year footprint, and helped the event reduce their total carbon footprint by over 80%. Read more about Shamabala’s Travel Initiatives: https://www.shambalafestival.org/essential-info/travel/ This case study is part of the Green Travel and Transport […]
Big Green Coach are the UK’s largest events travel company and official partner to some of the biggest festivals: Download, Isle of Wight, Creamfields, Reading & Leeds, Secret Garden Party and Boardmasters to name a few. They operate coach services to festivals, gigs and tours, as well as sporting events; and they are the Official Partner to Tottenham […]
Founded in October 2006, 2000trees was created by 6 music fans tired of overpriced mainstream events that care more about profits than people. Music festival veterans themselves after attending all the main industry events over a decade, James, Rob, Andy, Brendan, Mark and Si decided that they could do it better themselves. None of the […]
The Wildfire Pizza Co pride themselves in creating outstanding exciting wood fired pizza served from their stylish custom made Amobox trailer and van. We cater for events all across the UK including large music festivals, sporting events and everything in between. Our menus regularly feature Italian classics alongside ‘wild options’ such as wild boar, venison […]
Energy Garden supports communities to install and maintain gardens on railway stations across London. Revenue generated by the sale of community-owned renewable energy funds their gardens and education programmes. Energy Garden, is a not-for-profit Community Benefit Society that works with local communities to invest in renewable energy generation, green London’s transportation infrastructure, improve air quality […]
Download in the App Store or GooglePlay or search ecolibrium in either. As festivals and tours prepare for a post-pandemic restart, ecolibrium has launched an app to help artists and events tackle travel impacts, March 23rd 2021. Leaders across the industry, including Music Declares Emergency founders and Bluedot festival organisers, are amongst the first to champion the new App. The new, free […]
Coldplay’s Music of the Sphere’s tour incorporates a 12-point sustainability plan to tackle the environmental impacts of touring. The plan starts off with three principles set out to achieve a net zero tour: Reduce: reduced consumption, reduced waste, cutting emissions by 50% Reinvent: new green technologies and sustainable low-carbon touring methods Restore: funding nature and tech […]
Donations from over 35 members, including EMI Records, Universal Music UK, Wilderness Festival and All Points East, will balance the equivalent of over six million miles of travel carbon emissions, funding six projects taking action on the climate crisis; from community-owned renewable energy and gardening projects in London, to protecting threatened rainforests and ecosystems that […]
Bournemouth 7s Festival is a 3 day celebration of sport, music and new experiences. Welcoming 400 teams and 40,000 people each year, the famous Bournemouth 7s atmosphere is impossible to recreate. Rugby, Netball, Hockey, Dodgeball & Volleyball are all showcased throughout the weekend, with players joining the ever-evolving B7s party arenas over the long summer […]
A four-day, low impact festival based in the Welsh Borders, The Green Gathering is the original off-grid festival. Existing in various incarnations since the early 1980s, it brings together a community of 5000 people every year for a weekend entirely powered by wind, sun and people. Sustainability is written into the DNA of this community […]
Since 2003, Pearl Jam has calculated their tour-related carbon emissions based on band and crew air travel, hotel stays, truck and freight travel, power at venues and fan transportation to and from the shows. The band then invests a portion of their tour profits in local environmental projects in order to offset and mitigate their tour-related carbon […]