Many artists have taken part in green initiatives to help out the environment. Whether it's on tour or in their day to day lives, musicians across genres are doing their part to be sustainable.
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Here are six environmentally conscious artists to add to your playlist this Earth Day.
Guster
Guitarist Adam Gardner and his wide found REVERB, a nonprofit aiming to better the environment. The nonprofit works towards reducing concert and tour footprints by eliminating single-use water bottles, coordinating local farm food at shows, and using biodiesel fuel in tour buses. Additionally, many of Guster's tours are done in an eco-friendly manner.
KT Tunstall
Whether it's touring in a biodiesel-powered bus, to installing solar panels in her home, and playing an eco-friendly guitar made from old whiskey barrels, KT Tunstall likes to do her part to help out the environment. She often uses her platform to advocate for green initiatives saying in a recent interview, "I do think that the arts are an important platform for applying pressure towards change, especially in the era of social media where it's so easy to communicate with each other."
Pearl Jam
The band has donated $100,000 to nine agencies working towards saving the environment. Additionally, they've donated $50,000 to help preserve rainforets. Pearl Jam also tracks their carbon footprint from tours and then takes part in initiatives to help offset carbon emissions trom their tours.
Michael Franti
Franti helped found the nonprofit Power to the Peaceful, an organization that promotes "cultural co-existence, non-violence and environmental sustainability through the arts and music." Other environmental efforts undertaken by Frani iunclude using biodiesel fuel on this tour bus, requiring recyclable materials on his tour rider, and using organic cotton and hemp for his merchandise.
Jack Johnson
Johnson takes part in numerous environmental initiatives. From supporting nonprofits that create sustainable local food systems and plastic free intitiaves, to offering reusable water bottles and refill stations at his shows, having waste diversion efforts at his shows with recycling and composting, and even having farm to table meals from local sources prior to his shows, Johnson does it all.
Sheryl Crow
Crow aims to minimzie her carbon footprint on tour by using biodegradeable catering, biodiesel fuel, and reusable water bottlers. You can also find information booths from more than 50 environmental groups at her concerts as she uses them as a way to spread awareness about the environment.
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