How Green Is This Tour?

  • Carbon Offsets & Renewable Energy

Using a ton of math and some pretty fancy spreadsheets, Reverb calculates all CO2 emissions from buses, trucks, flights, venue energy use and hotel accommodations. Then we're able to provide a detailed analysis of the tour's carbon footprint.

Once we have a better idea of how large the footprint is, we'll put together a plan that includes the support of carbon offset projects like wind farms. By supporting clean, renewable energy, we're able to keep dirty energy (made by fossil fuels like coal) off the grid and pollution out of the air.

  • Hospitality & Catering

In an effort to cut down on plastic water bottle use, we'll supply reusable water bottles for the band and crew, as well as backstage water stations where everyone can fill up (it gets hot out here on the road!). We'll also be swapping out paper and plastic catering products (plates, cups, etc.) with items that are biodegradable. Did you know that they make cups out of corn?

We'll also make sure that everyone is staying green on the tour bus with eco-friendly cleaning products that are made of all-natural, non-toxic ingredients and recycling bins for everyone.

  • Farm-Fresh Food

Whenever possible, we make it a priority to coordinate with local farmers to provide healthy, locally grown and organic food options for the band and crew to eat each night. This not only helps to promote local economies and support small-scale agriculture, it also keeps our musicians healthy!

As a bonus, when we buy locally, the number of miles food travels from farm to plate is much smaller, meaning fewer fossil fuels used for transport and fresher food!

  • Waste Reduction & Recycling

We know it's hard to make sure everything ends up in the right bin on the road, so we'll be providing recycling bins and signage for all production offices, dressing rooms, catering and buses to make waste reduction simple for everyone involved in the tour. We recycle glass, aluminum, paper and plastic products as well as batteries so that we can keep them out of landfills, where it can take up to one million years for some products to break down.

Recycling also helps keep us from depleting our resources like trees and oil, and also keeps nasty chemicals out of the ground and the water. Did you know that every year, over 900 million trees are cut down to make paper for American consumers? We also make enough plastic film each year to shrink-wrap the state of Texas. What's up with that?