TAG: Environment

May17

This Summer’s Most Talked About Eco Music Festival

This July 4th weekend, the Eco Music Festival (EMU) is bringing Leftover Salmon, RJD2, Tea Leaf Green, Perpetual Groove, and other musical acts one and a half miles above sea level—to Snowmass Village, Colorado—for several days of fun. The innovative summer destination festival will feature popular and emerging musicians from folk to rock to electronica, combined with a range of events geared for fun and adventure. From mountainside concerts and guided hiking tours, to an Innovation Village and poolside cocktails, EMU is designed for positive impact for both festival goers and the planet.

“EMU is a summer event that’s fueled …

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Apr22

Music Going Green (& Your Role In It)

A NOD TO EARTH DAY/WEEK 

With Earth Day (4/22) here, the question as to how the music industry can and has gone green is important. We’ve experienced concerts with environmental initiatives, album artwork printed with vegan dyes, soft packs instead of jeweled CD cases, artist contributions made to organizations, press releases with philanthropic undertones, but has the music industry as a whole gone green? I can’t confidently say yes. …MORE

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Jan29

Hip Hop Fights Climate Change Head On With MOKUGIFT

Hip-hop is fighting climate change head on. Bay Area rapper/producer Tajai of Souls of Mischief and Pharoahe Monch have teamed up with MOKUGIFT, a dope tree planting site with the mission to foster environmental solidarity by making it easy and rewarding for ANYONE to fight climate change and by providing the tools to inspire others to do the same.

MOKUGIFT’S tree planting website makes it possible for concerned people, even …

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Jan25

SOLES 4 SOULS: Changing HAITI One Pair (of Kicks) At a Time

We make an effort to stay sporting the freshest kicks, always updating our closets with the newest and most exclusive. But how many of us make the effort to dispense responsibly of our old ones, our not so cool ones, maybe even out of season ones, that we discard from our wardrobes from time to time. Well today is the day to really re-evaluate your situation and begin to recycle those shoes by donating them to Soles4Souls. Why is this relevant right now? Because Soles4Souls donates to people in over 125 countries, including Kenya, Thailand, Nepal and the United States, free of charge to people in need, regardless of race, religion, class, or any other criteria. And they are currently paying extra special attention to …

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Jan21

Flight Club Lafayette: Where Recycling is the New Cool

What if someone told you growing up that caring about the state of the environment was relevant to everyone? That recycling was cool? What if someone had told you that recycling is embedded in music, fashion, culture, and design? That the recycling of old beats, fabrics, traditions, and ideas will always serve to give birth and inspiration to new ones?

With this as the case, it is safe to say that Flight Club is the uncle of green cool. Well before eco-products became a marketing scheme, there was the reuse of worn product, which is exactly what they promote. Of course, not just any product, but exclusive, limited, and in-demand footwear that is no longer in production. And now thanks to the opening of their new consignment store in the heart of Soho (located on Lafayette and Spring), vintage apparel.

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