Every day, I get a google alert with another news piece about green festivals.  Sometimes the festivals are what I'd consider really green, sometimes they're greenwashed, and most of the time they fall somewhere in between.  Since I can't write about all of them in depth, I figured I'd start this blog post to log the ones that get away.  I'll update it as new green festivals make the news.

 05 September:  Abbot-Kinney Street Festival Goes Green - Solar power, compostable foodware, "green living tent," proceeds to environmental and youth orgs.  Note--having compostable foodware is only good if you can actually get people to separate their trash and put the compostable stuff in the compost bin.

14 August:  Event Planners Make Gold from Green - story about green conference planners who were in charge of greening Giants Stadium for Live Earth

10 August:  Northwest World Reggae Fest to be green - festival will have organic food and recycling, info booths

10 August:  Santa Monica Film Fest to be green - not a music fest at all, but note that for these guys, being "green" means no print advertising or printed programs.  Having been to film festivals, I can tell you that a lack of printed programs is not a good thing.  Much better to print an appropriate number on 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

5 August:  San Jose Jazz Fest goes green - corn-based foodware, recycling and composting stations, organic T-shirts

24 July:  Montreal Jazz Fest Goes Green - LED lights, recycling, cup surcharges (pay $1 for the cup and reuse it for subsequent beers), free water