Megan Prusynski over at Green Options breaks down the greening of the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington State in this post from last June. Her summary? Despite the green hype the festival wrapped itself up in thanks to a partnership with Carbon Harmony to offset the event, the other green aspects of the festival were pretty much non-existent. In short, it was greenwashed, not green. She says it better than I can:
Nice try, Sasquatch. It was fun and all, but you can't just slap a
carbon-neutral sticker on an event and call it sustainable. Apparently
the Sasquatch needs to evolve…
It'll be interesting to see if Sasquatch does more next year.