# Glastonbury crowds urged to donate to be carbon-neutral

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/06/22/glastonbury-crowds-urged-donate-be-carbonneutral/
- Published: 2004-06-22T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Festival-goers at this week’s Glastonbury Festival will be encouraged to donate 
to Future Forests to plant a tree to offset the impact of the power requirements
for the festival’s entertainments.
The Future Forests concept of planting ‘forests
for the future’ to offset carbon emissions was first developed at the 1996 Glastonbury
Festival. Visitors to Glastonbury have helped the charity to plant over 1,000 trees
per year to offset the emissions created by the Festival.

Music and entertainment groups and events have been supporting the carbon neutral
approach for some time. The Brit Awards for example will be carbon neutral in 2004
for the fourth year running. All Coldplay’s CD and DVD releases since ‘A Rush of
Blood to the Head’ are carbon neutral. The Rolling Stones’ tour last year was also
carbon neutral.

Festival goers can donate to purchase a tree via Future Forests’ Web site.

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