Recycling and Composting  

In cooperation with our vendors, Sysco, and the town of Telluride, the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival provides festival attendees the opportunity to recycle and compost nearly everything you would want to throw away. When you arrive at the festival, you'll find six recycling and compost centers located throughout the festival grounds and one in the campground. A volunteer will be on hand to make sure the right items go into the correct containers. The recycling and compost centers are funded in part by a grant from the Telluride Council for Arts & Humanities. As it gets dark, solar power will illuminate the centers with lights and batteries courtesy of Veritas Solar. If you want to find out more about our efforts to become a zero-waste festival, please visit our environmental tent located just inside the entrance to the festival grounds. Thank you for helping us keep the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival green!

This year's festival is 100% carbon neutral!

Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is pleased to have joined Eco-Tunes, the first comprehensive program for carbon neutral music tours and events created by Green Mountain Energy Company and Sustainable Waves.

Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is taking a stand against global warming by making this year's festival 100% carbon neutral. We are offsetting the carbon dioxide emissions created by the festival's generators and electricity usage as well as our staff's air travel and vehicle based emissions for the event. This year we will be offsetting 26 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a harmful gas that is the leading cause of global warming. To put this in perspective, this is like not driving your car over 63,600 miles or the annual carbon absorption of more than 3,440 trees.

After the festival, keep an eye out to receive more information about how many tons of carbon dioxide all the Telluride Blues & Brews fans helped avoid this year. Together we can help make a difference and fight global warming.

For more information on Green Mountain Energy Company and Sustainable Waves please visit: www.greenmountain.com  and www.sustainablewaves.com
 
Upgrade your Telluride Blues & Brews Festival ticket to a “Be Green Ticket” for only $2.50.
Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, Green Mountain Energy Company, and Sustainable Waves are pleased to give festival goers the opportunity to “green up” their festival experience by upgrading to a “Be Green Ticket.” When you upgrade to a Be Green Ticket for $2.50, Green Mountain Energy Company will green-up your festival experience by providing, on your behalf, 250 kWh of renewable energy made from sources like wind and bio-energy. By purchasing a Be Green Ticket, you can help offset an estimated 341 lbs of carbon dioxide created by activities like driving your car to the festival.

The consensus among our world's climate scientists concludes that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities like electricity production and transportation are indisputably the leading cause of global warming. Sustainable Waves - powered by Green Mountain Energy Company is rippling throughout the entertainment industry creating some simple effective ways for all of us to participate in the effort to do something to address this growing threat.

One of the ways you can offset your carbon footprint is by purchasing renewable energy credits (RECs). RECs are an innovative means to offset the carbon emissions impact on the environment associated with activities like electricity consumption. Each Be Green Ticket will include with it the environmental attributes of 250 kWh of electricity produced using renewable resources, such as wind, solar, or bio-energy. The generation of electricity from cleaner renewable energy sources displaces electricity that might otherwise come from burning polluting fossil fuels like coal and oil. It is in this way that the purchase of renewable energy helps offset conventional electricity generation and the associated emissions that contribute to global warming. By putting dollars behind these new renewable sources of energy, you help bring more of them online, which means less energy needs to be generated using dirty fossil fuels. The net result? Carbon offsets that reduce your carbon footprint.

Upgrade to a Be Green Ticket for the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival and offset some of your environmental impact! For more information, please visit www.begreennow.com/greenticket250