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\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s getting to be almost a clich\u00e9 here in San Francisco with large music festivals that have either a green backbone or a heck of lot of social justice behind it. Both Outside Lands<\/a> and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass<\/a> sit only slightly in the rear view mirror but this weekend we hit the Treasure Island Music Festival<\/a> to check out the music, happenings and the overall Green flavor.<\/p>\n

Considering that several thousand people crammed into the festival space on Treasure Island we think that overall they handled the transportation issue in a pretty Green way. We made our way to the festival via zero-emission Bauer buses<\/a> that picked most of the masses up at AT&T Park. The only real griping we heard came from East Bay attendees who said that they had to drive or take BART to SF instead of having shuttle buses come to the East Bay as well.<\/p>\n

Upon entering the festival we couldn\u2019t help but noticing the Ferris wheel but then after that we spied a pair of decent size solar panels that sat near the entrance. Unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t determine or find anyone who knew what the solar power generated. We\u2019re sure it the energy went toward something beneficial.<\/p>\n

Not that we didn\u2019t get into the bands with MSTRKRFT<\/a> rocking the house with their style of house and MGMT<\/a> hitting a big home run by rocking into their first album but we didn\u2019t have time to play amongst the Green sidelights. We liked the addition of the Sustainable Living Roadshow<\/a> with its Recycle Swish – interactive NBA style take on recycling and Green education. The multi-colored bins existed all over the venue and Clean Vibes<\/a> volunteers did a pretty good job of monitoring that the right item went into the correct bin. Last year, the festival diverted 72 percent of waste to recycling and composting \u2013 a slightly higher rate than Green San Fran.<\/p>\n

We also appreciated the TRASHed Recycling Store<\/a> which offered incentives (shirts, sun block, tickets, etc) I n exchange for cups and plastic bottles but we didn\u2019t see many people taking advantage of the opportunity. We know that festivals need to make a profit so we\u2019re okay with the water refilling station charging a $1 to refill a container (unless you buy a Treasure Island bottle which in that case the water is free) but at least they didn\u2019t sell high fructose corn syrup (err soda) at the same booth.<\/p>\n

Even behind the scenes the generators run on B20<\/a>. Now we\u2019re not going to say that these bringing thousands of people together won\u2019t have some detrimental effects but compared with many of the other festivals out there Treasure Island Music Festival runs a pretty tight green ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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