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In Nashville, Tennessee, this past August, about 5,000 revelers in neon chaps, gothic chains and kaleidoscopic crop tops descended on Bicentennial Par

A handful of festivals are striving to become carbon neutral by reducing waste, using high-tech dance floors and offsetting emissions.

Michael Martin of Effect Partners told Pollstar that a group of 300 road managers and 3,000 roadies are participating in a regular calls, organized by new groups like the Touring Professionals Alliance and Tour Production Group to examine their own practices and norms, and his own phone has been ringing continuously as more people seem to have a genuine desire to address the issue of sustainability in touring.  “The pandemic has been so hard for our industry, but amazingly, what has happened is with the downtime different players have started working together and talking about the critica...

By: Sarah Pittman Megan Scallorn Channel Tres performs atDeep Tropics in 2019. That year the boutique festival's sustainability efforts included collecting 700 pounds of compost material and sending 300 pounds of non-recyclable plastics and waste to Terra Cycle to be reused to make into other plastic products. festivalReturning in 2021 to safely put on an event would be a lofty enough goal for most festival organizers. But the organizers of Deep Tropics Music Art & Style Festival are determined to take their greening efforts to the next level to b...