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Big Green Coach

Big Green Coach are the UK’s largest events travel company, Official Partner to most of the biggest festivals (Download, Isle of Wight, Creamfields, Reading & Leeds, Secret Garden Party, Boardmasters to name a few). They operate carbon neutral services to festivals, hundreds of gigs and tours, not to mention the nation’s favourite sports events. They […]

24.05.2021

Radiohead’s pioneering research + 2008 Carbon Neutral Tour

Radiohead are ecolibrium heroes: pioneers of measuring, and reducing their tour travel emissions they also took their audiences and crew on the journey with them, promoting “carbon light” forms of travel to events, incentivising the use of public transport and pointing ticket-buyers to carbon calculators similar to ecolibrium’s to learn more about their travel choice impacts: In […]

14.05.2021

Boomtown Fair Tackle travel emissions via car passes

Boomtown Fair is set over four days in August, at the Matterley Estate in Hampshire. The first Boomtown took place in 2009 and it now attracts over 64,000 festival-goers annually. The team at Boomtown have a strong commitment to running the event sustainably. In 2016 they took the Festival Vision:2025 pledge to act on climate […]

18.01.2021

Rainforest Trust

ecolibrium supports Rainforest Trust through our Trees+ programme. This established charity fulfils the ‘protection’ aspect of the programme – working to protect threatened rainforest from deforestation and keep carbon safely stored in the forest. Rainforest Trust’s mission is to place the most threatened tropical forests under permanent protection, saving endangered wildlife through local partnerships and […]

30.10.2020

HorseFest

Horse lovers, you belong right here! HorseFest is the place to celebrate all things horse, to learn and to meet others who share your passion. At HorseFest, we plan to bring the world of horses under one roof (or sky!) with everything from top rider demonstrations, workshops and talks alongside camping, eating, drinking, chatting and […]

13.10.2020

Love Saves the Day

Love Saves The Day is a weekend-long celebration of underground music taking place in Bristol, a city steeped in musical history. The festival, which had it’s debut in 2012, combines the excitement of a city-centre event with the escapism and adventure of a weekend festival deep in the sticks. But most of all, pioneering music […]

28.09.2020

National Outdoor Expo

We believe that an active outdoor lifestyle helps you live longer, stay younger and enjoy life more. The National Outdoor Expo is a utopia for outdoor enthusiasts and provides all of the inspiration, kit, tech, nutrition and advice needed to get outside and get active. The outdoors is for everyone and we want to help […]

24.09.2020

Energy Revolution

Energy Revolution invests in community led projects that generate clean renewable energy, benefitting the community they exist within. This was ecolibrium’s first climate solutions programme, launched in 2015, and as of 2022, with the support of our 100+ members we have supported 10 brilliant projects. Through Energy Revolution the price per tonne of CO2 is […]

19.09.2020

Solar for Schools

Carbon-balancing donations from ecolibrium members in 2018 and 2019 went to Solar for Schools, a project that installs solar panels on school roofs across the UK, allowing them to produce low-cost clean electricity, while also educating children about the importance of a low carbon future. For schools the project presents a fully funded solar solution […]

27.08.2020

Travel Carbon Calculator

Joins thousands of festivalgoers, event organisers, artists and suppliers who are committed to understanding the impacts of travel and taking action to tackle them. Use the Calculator to calculate and analyse the emissions from a single journey or multiple journeys. Information submitted is strictly private, and will not be shared with any third parties. See our data privacy […]

28.06.2020

The ecolibrium Green Travel & Transport Guide for Festivals and Events: 2023

The NEW ecolibrium Green Travel & Transport Guide was launched May 18th 2023 with new best practice and research. This fourth edition of the guide provides updated context and new case studies, recent advice, tools, plus expert input on positively influencing audience behaviour and the future of travel in the UK. This guide aims to provide […]

10.01.2020