Rock, roll, recycle
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Topic: Punk Rock
Sort Desciption: The massive annual punk rock caravan, which will play to an estimated 20000 ... “I run a punk rock tour, but my roots are kind of hippie,” says Vans Warped ...
Content Inside: Rock, roll, recycle Rockers plan concert schedules with environment in mind Jul. 29, 2006. 08:39 AM VIT WAGNER POP MUSIC CRITIC It’s not easy being green, particularly when you are in the business of stacking amplifiers to the sky in order to pump music out to tens of thousands of concertgoers ac- customed to eating off paper plates and slaking their thirst from plastic water bottles, aluminum pop cans and disposable beer cups. But a growing number of artists and promoters are working in various ways to minimize the negative environmental impact of the rock and roll road show. While it’s too early for anyone to declare this a decisive moment in the Greening of Rock, the summer of 2006 might well be remembered as a significant milestone in the evolu- tion of what some see as a necessary — even inevitable — trend. Concerts ranging from the Dave Matthews Band to the Vans Warped tour are taking the lead on environmental initiatives, from solar-powered stages to biodegradable beer cups. In some ways, it’s an unsurprising development. Concerns about global warming, while not new, have been top of mind this year, with the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth doing big business at the box office and the publication of a slew of books, including Australian scientist Tim Flannery’s The Weathermakers and New Yorker reporter Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe. Suddenly terms such as “carbon footprint,” the calculation of each individual’s output of atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide (CO2), and “carbon neutral,” the process of mitigating the effect of that impact, have joined our everyday lexicon. The issue is a logical touchstone for musicians, who have always tended to take a stand on political issues, whether in defence of civil rights or in opposition to military adventurism. Popular musicians have been singing about environmental degradation since at least as far back as Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) ...
