This summer, Pearl Jam, Coldplay and Foo Fighters are ensuring that their tours don't accord to all-around warming. The ambition for these bands is to abate carbon dioxide emitted during the accomplishment of their albums and the assembly of their tours. With the advice of the ecology accumulation Future Forests, Coldplay buried 10,000 oxygen-generating mango copse in India to account the CO2 emitted during the assembly of their latest CD, A Rush of Blood to the Head.
Artists such as Foo Fighters, Bonnie Raitt and Dave Matthews Band, as able-bodied as this year's Warped Tour, accept accomplished agnate projects.
Pearl Jam accept taken the better jump. For their fifty-six-date bout this accomplished spring, they ample out the ecology costs, including travel, lighting, complete and fuel, and assured that they, and their fans, will afford about 5,600 bags of CO2. To pay it back, the bandage has donated $35,000 against attention a rain backwoods in Madagascar. Says guitarist Stone Gossard, "If we can affect humans to alpha cerebration about their own carbon emissions, that's the goal."
This adventure is from the July 10th, 2003 affair of Rolling Stone.
From The Archives Affair 926: July 10, 2003
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