We’re At Bonnaroo Spreading the Low Carbon Diet!
Posted by Gaelan on 12 Jun 2008 at 4:57 pm | Tagged as: Life In Vermont, Social Responsibility
The Carbon Shredders, sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee, Seventh Generation and Yestermorrow Design/Build School, were invited by Bonnaroo to bring the “Low Carbon Diet” to 80,000 festival attendees. We made the 1000-mile trip fueled by 100% vegetable oil in the Solar Bus.
You can find more pictures of the first day of the event here.
Our “shred don’t dread” philosophy is simple: Use our online tool to measure and reduce your energy use and carbon footprint; go on a low-carbon diet by doing things like switching to compact fluorescent bulbs, taking shorter showers, washing clothes with cold water, installing power strips to remove “phantom loads” etc. DO something to help the planet and your pocketbook.
Our goal for Bonnaroo attendees: get 80,000 people to reduce their annual C02 footprint by 10% by Bonnaroo 2009. That will mean over 400 MILLION pounds of C02 kept out of the atmosphere and over $80 Million dollars saved on energy costs.
So far, festival attendees are loving the Shredd-o-lution and we have hundreds of people signed up for the low carbon diet just during the first few hours. What’s not to love?