Believe It Or Not, A Clean Rock and Roll Festival
Green Street is the public face of Lollapalooza's environmental initiatives where you can shop eco-friendly goods from the Green Street Art Market, taste Farm-to-Festival offerings at the Farmers Market and get involved with a noble cause in Lolla Cares.
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Greening Initiatives
Keeping Grant Park and the planet healthy and around for future generations are key missions of the Lollapalooza.
That's why Lollapalooza is planned through an aggressively "green" lens.
Here are some ways Lollapalooza strives to minimize its environmental impact and ways Lollapalooza fans can help us reach these goals:
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Waste Diversion
Waste diversion is aggressively practiced both backstage and front-of-house with an incentive program for fans, hundreds of recycling bins, composting stations in the picnic areas, and a team of hired professionals and volunteers. Please help us divert waste from the landfill by selecting the correct bin before tossing your waste. You can reduce your waste by refilling your water container at one of the six CamelBak Filling Stations. Last year, Lollapalooza fans poured enough water to fill over 204,000 water bottles!
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Rock & Recycle Program
Rock out, recycle, and win a free commemorative Lollapalooza t-shirt made of an organic bamboo/cotton blend blend by Five Bamboo. You'll also earn a chance to win a commemorative Lollapalooza 20th Anniversary Trek bicycle. Visit one of the four Rock & Recycle centers throughout the park for more details.
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Transportation
Fans are encouraged to take environmentally friendly transportation to the festival, such as walking, biking, taking city mass transportation, or carpooling. Since 2006, the festival has partnered with a local nonprofit biking organization, Active Transportation Alliance, to provide a bike valet service for our patrons. This service continues to grow. In 2010, 2,400 patrons took advantage of the bike valet service.New to 2011, fans can arrange car shares through The Lollapalooza Zimride Network.
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Carbon Offsets
Prior to the Festival, fans are offered the chance to purchase certified carbon offsets from Green Mountain Energy Company when buying their tickets. By adding the $3.00 Green Mountain Energy Fan Tag to a ticket, fans offset the equivalent of 220 pounds of CO2. That's like not driving a car 245 miles, recycling 550 aluminum cans, or planting 13 trees.Over the past five years, Festival producers have offset the carbon dioxide emissions created by the event's generators, shore power, staff travel and festival vehicles.
C3's commitment to track and offset Lollapalooza's carbon footprint, along with offering event goers an easy way to offset their own emissions, has helped to offset approximately 4,983 metric tons of CO2! This has the same environmental impact as taking approximately 350,000 cars off the road for one day, or the amount of CO2 absorbed in a year by over 650,000 trees. All carbon offsets purchased from Lollapalooza will benefit a Climate Action Reserve (CAR) carbon offset project in the Midwest. Calculate and offset your carbon footprint here. -
Volunteer Teams
Once inside the park, patrons find 3 dedicated teams of volunteers (over 200 volunteers per day) helping to spread the green message and to ensure that our environmental programs run efficiently. These programs would not be possible without them!
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Green Touring Consultation
Lollapalooza has partnered with Reverb to further assist artists with environmental programming on their tours year round.
All Lollapalooza performers are invited to have a free consultation with Reverb for green touring tips. -
Chicago Park Improvements
Of special importance to environmental initiatives is the festival's non-profit presenting sponsor, the Parkways Foundation. Parkways Foundation is the philanthropic partner of the Chicago Park District. Since its inception in 1994, Parkways Foundation has been funding park projects all over Chicago such as historic preservation and restoration, programming initiatives and environmental enrichment. Over the last six years (2005 to 2010) the festival has generated over $8,000,000 in revenue for the Parkways Foundation. Visit the Parkways booth in Green Street to learn more about their program.
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Avatar
Avatar Imports believes that giving impoverished people the opportunity to raise their standard of living and learn viable working skills is a first step towards empowerment that can have a positive impact on a community. That's why Avatar Imports joined the fair trade movement and is a member of the Fair Trade Federation. We believe that even the smallest positive action is key to making the world a better place for all. We work with a fair trade factory in Kathmandu, Nepal to manufacture products that are created in a safe, healthy environment, by people who are paid an above average wage. Change your clothes, change the world, it really is that simple!
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Chaos Card Company
We are an artisan family practicing a centuries-old craft, using skills and secrets developed over the course of a combined fifty years of screen-printing. Every one of our garments is printed by hand. Each is hand-registered and hand-pulled without the use of a press, making every piece of clothing a little bit unique and truly one-of-a-kind.
As a family, and as artists, we practice conservation and value sustainability as essential to our craft. We continually strive to locate and combine the best ethically sourced materials produced by environmentally conscious manufacturers with low environmental impact inks. We utilize both solar power and grey water systems in our studio and have developed a proprietary printing technique that further conserves water and materials. We feature a variety of sustainable, organic and recycled goods and recycle everything possible in our workshop.
This year we are proud to debut our new line of vintage "upcycled" jeans and "second generation" accessories made from recycled tshirts.
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Coco Loco Jewelry
At Coco Loco we specialize in hand-carved, organic jewelry made from natural materials such as: Coconut, Exotic Hardwoods, Seeds, Shell, Horn and Bone. Originated by tribal peoples from around the world, our aim is to help sustain their culture by maintaining these forms of traditional art and adornment.
We pride ourselves in being a socially responsible and environmentally conscious company. We help support over 50 artisans and their families, around the globe and strive beyond fair trade. We work directly with all of our carvers and artists making sure that their quality of life is maintained, preserved and improved. Taking special care to source natural materials with an environmentalist mindset, we enjoy the satisfaction of finding and making beautiful jewelry out of recycled, salvaged and sustainably harvested materials. We are certified as a green business by Co-op America and Green America. We are also currently a carbon neutral company that sponsors the following organizations: Global Releaf, SaveDarfur.org, and Common Vision.
In our home office we align our business practices with our personal morals and responsibilities. We strive to be green. Reducing, reusing and recycling as much of our office supplies as possible. Everything from paper to packaging to printing is recycled and reused. This year we have teamed up with a non-profit called Global Releaf (in association with American Forests) and have started a program where Coco Loco will plant one tree for every internet order placed on our website.
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Demographic
Demographic is an emerging graphic apparel company using a unique system in which each design concept represents a different group of people or "demographic." This framework allows individuals to choose how they want to be viewed or call attention to ideas/issues that are important to them.
Several designs have eco-friendly themes, such as "Concerned," which speaks to the alarming amount of CO2 in our atmosphere. "Allergic" highlights factors such as environmental pollution that contribute to the development of allergies, or "Vegetarian," which speaks to choosing this diet/lifestyle for reasons including health, environmental and economic concerns.
Demographic is committed to Fair Trade principles. All products are sweatshop-free and made in the USA. In addition, all products are designed and silk screened by hand locally in Chicago.
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Five Bamboo
Our mission is to, through our apparel and through the people we engage, redefine this generation's view of how we clothe ourselves and how our simplest actions shape our common, global future.
Our environmental commitment travels along our supply chain, which is why we choose to make our clothing from Nomo Clean Bamboo fiber, a regenerated cellulose fiber known as bamboo lyocell. Our fiber-making process is 99% closed-loop and utilizes only non-toxic organic compounds. This means that virtually all the inputs used in the process are recycled and reused. Besides the organic compounds, water and energy are the only other inputs. As we move forward, we are building our understanding of the apparel market so we can shift the industry in a more responsible direction.
Five Bamboo aims to prove that apparel can be affordable and sustainable without sacrificing style or comfort. Our bamboo lyocell fabric has the great qualities of cotton we all love - comfort, durability, and versatility - and more. It's softer than cotton and silky to the touch. Our products are inspired by our environmental beliefs and our active lifestyles. We create clothing that is as versatile as our customers. Whether you're hiking up a mountain, meeting friends for drinks, or spending your Sunday at the farmer's market, Five Bamboo has you covered.
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Futurgarb
Futurgarb has been an advocate of a greener world for over 5 years. At our store in Wicker Park, Chicago we not only sell green products from all over the world but use recycled bags, boxes, use CFL lights and ask that our customers recycle. We seek out cool, unique recycled or upcycled products from independent designers and green companies. Our stylish recycled products include: tee shirts, wallets, bags, id cases, necklaces, hats and watches, just to name a few. Some of the great items you will see this year will include a new line called Saako, from Barcelona, upcycled fabric necklaces and head scarves, new wallets and purses from Ecoist, recycled paper Fedoras by Peter Grimm and vintage tie wallets by Narwal. Stop by our booth on Green Street to see the latest in fashionable green products.
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Greenheart
Greenheart is Chicago's premier eco-fair trade non-profit shop, carrying both fair trade and eco friendly products. Greenheart carries a variety of recycled and sustainable accessories products. Greenheart believes consumers have the power to affect positive world change by supporting sustainable and fair business practices in their purchasing choices. What is Eco-Fair Trade? Greenheart follows the guiding principles of "Fair Trade". Fair Trade supports sustainable community development by ensuring that the artisans making the products are paid fair living wages. "Eco" signifies that our products are made using the most sustainable materials and methods whenever possible. At Greenheart, we are both "Fair to producers, and good to the Earth"
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Greg Davis Photography
National Geographic's Image Collection Photographer and winner of the 2009 New York Art Expo's "Best Environmental Message in Photography", Greg's work strikes to the core of the human condition and speaks volumes for our need to hold dear what is slowly disappearing. At a faster rate than ever before, our world is shrinking and traditional cultures are at risk. He hopes to share with you, the world through his eyes, in hopes that his work will bring awareness to our planets diversity and our unprecedented need to preserve it.
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Hope Campaign
The H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Everywhere) Campaign is a project of H.O.P.E. Events Inc., an energy conscious 501(c) 3 non-profit focused on involving artists and their contributions in campaigns, programs and events to support existing social projects that promote education and peacearound the world.
Please visit our booth during this 20 yr. anniversary Lollapalooza for an interactive experience while you learn about several great global eco programs: The Voice Project, AMPLIFY PEACE & CTC International! We will have lots of eco products for you to check out that each helpsupport great causes globally & locally!
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Leighelena
Leighelena uses eco-minded materials in their products, like 75% upcycled leathers and interesting skins such as carp and vegan leather. The metals we use are 50% recycled also, along with much of the glass we use on our enameled pieces.
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Mata Traders
At Mata Traders we believe that giving women economic power and viable working skills can transform a community (and so the world) and is the surest way to combat poverty. That's why all of our fair trade clothing and accessories are handmade by women's cooperatives in India and Nepal. We work with local communities and use traditional artisan skills to create products that make the world a better place - and make YOU look good too!
All of our clothing is made with fair trade cotton sourced from small local farms and grown with out agrochemicals. The patterns on our clothing and accessories are all hand block-printed using vegetable dies. In addition, many of our jewelry pieces use sustainable resources like found wood and bone from naturally deceased camels.
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The Mayan Connection
The Mayan Connection works with recycled materials. We reuse the indigenous textiles from Guatemala to create beautiful, one of a kind, clothes. We buy carbon offsets with Native Energy. We also support a permaculture farm, Casa de Nyame, at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. We are committed to fair trade working conditions and educate our workers on organic farming, yoga, and a healthy lifestyle.
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Michael Michael Motorcycle
Michael Michael Motorcycle is a painter, illustrator, rock poster artist, and innovative print maker. He has attained widespread recognition among collectors all over the world as a result of his illustrative narrative regarding the human condition, the effects of the industrial revolution, and LOVE.
All hand crafted art prints are comprised of 100% recyclable cotton paper and environmentally friendly inks. Every aspect of the printing process is made with the highest respect toward our planet by reducing waste and water use.
Michael creates his images to connect the viewer with the complex, intimate relationship between human behavior and the environment. He hopes to inspire the viewer to live with an awareness of the human impact on our planet, and to take this mindfullness into positive action.
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Revive
Revive is an independently owned and operated sustainable fashion retailer selling fair trade apparel, accessories, jewelry and housewares. Founded in 2006, Revive operates two brick and mortar retail locations in Cleveland, Ohio and an e-Commerce site at the link below.
Revive offers fashionable, hand crafted, fair trade products whose producers are paid a fair, living wage. The hand crafted goods are made by artisans from over thirty countries. Revive prioritizes working directly with artisan cooperatives, small family producers, and small workshops. Supporting these artisans contributes to the greater good of the world by helping individuals rise out of poverty.
Revive offers a refreshing mix of the best that ethical fashion has to offer. Sustainable materials offered include vegetable dyed organic cotton, clay dyed hemp, natural seeds and nuts, and recycled materials. Cutting-edge sustainable fabrics made with milk fibers and soy fibers are featured. Revive supports the artistry of hand made fabrics including batik, kalamkari, tie dye, block print, and hand loomed, embroidered, and woven textiles.
Revive founder Lisa Dunn?s passion for working directly with producer groups and individual artisans is at the core of Revive?s mission: to retail fashionable and in-demand fair trade products while offering employment opportunities for both the artisans and for those desiring work in the socially responsible fashion sect.
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Rokoko Art
Rokoko uses organic paints on collaged pieces of various Eco friendly materials, as well as recycling ordinary objects into art. We give positive messages in our work adding to good vibrations which are ultimately earth healing.
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Souldier
Souldier handmakes strong, functional, and beautiful goods in the USA using recycled seatbelt, salvaged items, and vintage materials. We make being Green, rock! Items include guitar straps, camera strap, belts, bags, clothing, jewelry, and other complimentary fair trade goods.
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Synergy
Synergy makes clothing that combines sustainability, with modern yet timeless design. We strive to make clothing that looks good, while being gentle on the Earth. We predominantly work with G.O.T.S certified organic cotton from India, that is dyed with low impact dyes. Our clothing is hand made in Nepal according to fair trade practices, verified by our long-term relationships with our manufacturers and our frequent trips to Nepal. Each season we look for ways to minimize our footprint as a business, in both the ways our clothing is made and in our daily operations.
Synergy looks to the world around in its approach to design, taking inspiration from both the natural and urban landscapes, in addition to modern and ancient cultural influences. We specialize in making clothing with touches of graphic details such as hand-stitched applique work and water-based screen prints. It is our goal to make women feel good when they wear our clothing, while feeling good about the way it was made.
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William K. Stidham
A nationally acclaimed rock and roll artist whose Sacred Heart Series highlights iconic musicians whose passion, gifts, talent...HEART energy shifted the planet...He then asks: what are you doing with your gifts?...Your sacred heart?!
William uses all biodegradable and acid free materials with his paintings...Right down to using biodegradable bags for carry away items.
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CIMMfest
CIMMfest is a celebration of MOVIES AND MUSIC...and all the movement, magic and mayhem the two generate. It's films...everything from documentaries to fiction to music videos -- and everything from rock to punk to opera to hip hop to house to dub to Indian classical to Tibetan heavy metal. It's musicians attempting to act (and frequently pulling it off!).
It's ear-splitting concerts and live film accompaniments. It's thought-provoking panel discussions. And it's all in the name of MOVIES AND MUSIC! Come see for yourself at venues like Lincoln Hall, the Metro, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Double Door, the Music Box, Big Star, Debonair, Smart Bar and more! The best film and music fest in the country is in Chicago, in April, onscreen and on the stage.
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Family Farmed
FamilyFarmed.org's mission is to expand the production, marketing and distribution of locally grown and responsibly produced food, in order to enhance the social, economic and environmental health of our communities. FamilyFarmed.org can teach you simple ways to access local food and make it fun!
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h20
h20 is "a sip in the right direction" offering today's environmentally conscious consumer a way to enjoy the world's most consumed beverage without contributing to the 38 billion plastic bottles that end up in landfills every year. Pristine spring water from the Niagara Escarpment is packaged in an award-winning, aseptic bottle, minimizing the impact on the environment and providing a safe drinking experience with no danger of chemical leaching. h20 bottles are multi-layered, providing superior protection and insulation to keep purities in and impurities out.
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HeadCount
HeadCount reaches young people and music fans where they already are - at concerts and online - to inform and empower. Through a national community of volunteers with diverse backgrounds and values, we come together to register, engage, and mobilize voters. Our message is not about what party you support or where you land on an issue. It's that you must speak to be heard. Stop by the HeadCount table at this year's Lollapalooza to register to vote, write a letter to your Congressperson, or take our "Fan DNA Poll."
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LoveHopeStrength
LHSF is an international, music-centric cancer charity dedicated to saving lives, one concert at a time. The mission is to save lives, right now, with the advances that have already been made in cancer care. We do not fund cancer research, rather we use our funds to build and support cancer centers around the globe. Build awareness of global cancer needs. Build the international marrow databases through the "GET ON THE LIST" campaign.
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Music Gives To St. Jude's Kids
The mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.
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ONE
ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African activists and policy makers.
Backed by a movement of 2 million ONE members, ONE achieves change through advocacy. We hold world leaders to account for the commitments they've made to fight extreme poverty, and we campaign for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively. ONE is not a grant-making organization and we do not solicit funding from the general public. As we have always said, at ONE, 'we're not asking for your money, we're asking for your voice.
ONE and its 2 million members, along with ONE's predecessor organization DATA and other non-profit partners, have played an important role in persuading governments to support effective programs and policies that are making a measurable difference in fighting extreme poverty and disease. As a result of those programs, today nearly 4 million Africans have access to life-saving AIDS medication, up from only 50,000 people in 2002. Malaria deaths have been cut in half in countries across Africa in less than 2 years and 42 million more children are now going to school.
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Rock The Vote
Rock the Vote's mission is to engage and build political power for young people in our country.
Founded twenty years ago at the intersection of popular culture and politics, Rock the Vote is growing its team and its campaigns in 2011, to support the tidal wave of young people who want to get involved in elections and seize the power of the youth vote to create political and social change.
Over the last two decades, Rock the Vote has registered more young people to vote than any other organization or campaign, and we intend to register and turn out millions more in years to come - and to be the best-informed place online where young people can find out what they need to know before casting a ballot.
After years of declining participation at the polls, a new generation of young voters has arrived. Millions of new voters between the ages of 18 - 29 cast ballots in 2004, 2006, and 2008. Rock the Vote is dedicated to building the political power and clout of the Millennial Generation by registering and turning out young people, by forcing the candidates to campaign to them, and by making politicians pay attention to youth and the issues they care about once in office.
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Sierra Club
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
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Parkways Foundation
Of special importance to environmental initiatives is the festival's non-profit presenting sponsor, the Parkways Foundation. Parkways Foundation is the philanthropic partner of the Chicago Park District. Since its inception in 1994, Parkways Foundation has been funding park projects all over Chicago such as historic preservation and restoration, programming initiatives and environmental enrichment.
Over the last six years (2005 to 2010) the festival has generated over $7,000,000 in revenue for the Parkways Foundation. Visit the Parkways booth in Green Street to learn more about their program.
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Art Market
Green Street art vendors are selected for their individual causes. Whether they create fashionable goods from recycled materials, use earth friendly materials, promote environmental awareness, or have fair trade agreements with people around the globe, Green Street Art Market offers a wholesome and meaningful shopping experience.
Be sure to stop by and shop, so you can take a piece of Lollapalooza's Green Street home with you.
Lolla Cares
Lolla Cares features organizations committed to making this world a better, greener, and healthier place. Guess what? It's working. In 2010, Lolla Cares organizations were responsible for registering 313 fans to vote, finding two bone marrow matches for cancer patients, and fostering support for clean energy, education, and park projects in the Chicago area.
Stop by Lolla Cares in Green Street to learn how you can get involved both during Lollapalooza and in your daily lives.
