This is part 2 of a rapid-fire, unedited series to help catch up on all the recent green festival goodness.  Pardon the typos and gaps in logic, but I'm rushing through these so I can go play outside. It's a beautiful day in Boston!

OK, this was less a festival than a concert, but with the lineup of the Allman Brothers and Dave Matthews and the green message, I had to blog about it a bit.

The big green aspect of this, for a change, was the other green: money.  This event was a fundraiser to help pay for a 53-acre expansion of Piedmont Park.   Along the way, organizers touted the event's green credentials, which mostly consisted of asking people to take public transportation.  Apparently, Atlanta has public transportation but nobody uses it, since the 50,000 festival goers who took MARTA trains to the show doubled the normal ridership. 

So the event raised money for a park, which is ostensibly a green factor, and it got 50,000 people not to drive for a day, which is fantastic.  But what else did it do?  Well, it asked people to turn off the lights when they leave the room.  And, um, it asked them to print fewer emails.  Oh, there were some recycling bins.  And it provoked a rather bitter YouTube rant (below) from a guy who was annoyed that he was mildly inconvenienced by people who wanted to go to a show, although he did point out that there were plenty of energy hogging, fossil fuel burning tour buses and lighting rigs all over the park.  And that's about it, from what I can tell in the press.  Since no green event does anything these days without telling the whole world about it in a series of press releases, I'm left to believe that the green concert wasn't, at the end of the day, very green at all, just greenwashed.