Live Earth: What will the environmental impact be?

I posted earlier today about Live Earth a series of concerts that are being arranged by Al Gore to promote environmental issues.

While I think it's great they are putting on the concerts, it also occurred to me that wouldn't the concerts themselves have an environmental impact? Well thankfully Live Earth have already thought of this.

Instead of ending up with egg on their faces because they forgot that a concert actually requires power and that the crew and artists to travel to them, they have set out a plan with the U.S. Green Building Commission to create a "Green Event Standard" for a more environmentally friendly concert.

The rough details of the standard make quite inspiring reading. They propose to obtain all power for the events from renewable sources as well as work with specialist lighting companies and designers to reduce lighting energy usage with the use of LED technology.

Recycling will be used throughout the events from the cups drinks are served in to the hotel rooms the artists and crew will be staying in. They even require the hotels they use to change all of their light bulbs to power saving bulbs.

Travel requirements have also been covered by making sure that carbon from Air travel is offset and that all ground travel is done using hybrid vehicles.

All in all they have really thought this through well. Hopefully the "Green Event Standard" will become something that other concert arrangers take up.


Live Earth after the concert update (10/07/07)