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United Nations green concerts

The Hove Festival – a rock event that featured Beck, Duffy and rapper Jay-Z -  and  the jazz and blues festival Canal Street both signed on to UNEP’s Climate Neutral Network. UNEP wants events to sign on to learn from each other how to get achieve carbon neutrality. At Hove, 73,000 staffers, acts and concertgoers were invited to pay – by cell phone SMS (short message service) or credit card – for the carbon footprint produced by traveling to the event. Solar charging stations helped charge cell phones and some of the lighting was LED powered by solar and wind energy. Other camper concertgoers got a free meal for each bag of trash they picked up. Hove hoped to recycle 50 percent of their trash from the event. Last year’s Hove produced 1,300 tons of CO2 equivalent, and this year’s event is now being analyzed to figure out how much purchased offsets get Hove toward “neutrality.”

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