Sustainable Bonnaroo

Now that “From Bonnaroo to Boulder”, our mini-roadtrip, is over, it’s time to digest all we learned and look forward to our next adventure (we think it’ll be the end of August – stay tuned…). And we’ll probably have a few more posts with our thoughts about the trip and all the fantastic people we met along the way (and we really met some amazing people!)

While we were in Tennessee at the Bonnaroo festival, we were able to talk with people and learn about their efforts to make the festival as sustainable as possible. Following is an excerpt from our Sustainable Table Tour Journal about Bonnaroo and sustainability. You can read the full post here…. We also hope to bring you a feature article on all the efforts Bonnaroo is making to be as sustainable as possible.

Sunday, June 15: Bonnaroo is a four-day music and arts festival on farmland in Tennessee, so why would Sustainable Table be interested in being part of what some see as a rock concert for 80,000 people? Sustainability, pure and simple. Bonnaroo is on the forefront of sustainability when it comes to gatherings for large amounts of people, and what they’re doing is on the forefront of the sustainability movement within their field.

To give a little background on the festival, it started in 2001. The promoters were all Phish/Grateful Dead fans, and lived a sustainable lifestyle without really labeling themselves as such. They believed in giving back to the planet, reducing waste and consumption, and in community and being locally based. And that ethic has been with Bonnaroo since Day 1, and it only gets stronger each year.

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