Spring 2010 Organic Buzz

What a busy Spring this has been so far!  We have had a wonderful time reading your comments and interacting with our loyal fans on Facebook and Twitter.   A special thank you to all of the Feed Your Eco readers, Organic Bug customers and anyone who mentioned us in their blog or Website!  You help us keep the “Organic Buzz” alive and well and spread the message to others!

Music Scene Goes Green

By nature, the touring industry has a negative impact on the environment because of the combined carbon footprint of tours, concerts, videos and albums. We are left to wonder, is there anything really green about the music scene? There wasn’t until Guster’s vocalist/guitarist Adam Gardner and his wife, Lauren Sullivan, founded Reverb- an environmental organization devoted to greening the music industry. Since its start-up in 2004, Reverb cut more than 67,000 tons of carbon from the music industry and greened 81 tours by creating outreach displays at concerts, partnering up with environmentalist groups, offering bio diesel fuel for vehicles, and encouraging recycling and waste reduction. Taking Reverb one step further, the couple started the Green Music Group, a project created to inspire environmental change. The GMG launched on January 30, 2010 and is founded by a team of musicians, fans, record labels, and music industry leaders who seek to inspire environmental change through powerful music performances that spread awareness of global issues. With the support of founding members (including Dave Mathews Band, Linkin Park, The Roots, Sheryl Crow, Barenaked Ladies, Bonnie Raitt and Maroon 5), GMG wants to “make big changes by targeting small tasks to use the collective power of the music community to take action and bring about universal environmental change”.

So what does the future look like for GMG and the music industry? We can expect to see new eco-friendly standards for venues, labels and tours, green grants given to up- and-coming artists, environmental challenges aimed at members and prizes donated to groups.

If you want to support positive environmental action within the music industry you can sign up to become a part of the GMG crew. To show their appreciation, you are automatically entered to win an autographed eco-friendly guitar and you will even receive a free song from the launch session. Not a bad gig, eh?

Stay up to date by following the Green Music Group on Twitter!

Become a fan of the Green Music Group on Facebook

Check out this video from the Launch Event!

Contest Winners!

Thank you all so much for your participation! We sure did have fun reading over all of your awesome comments! We have picked 3 lucky winners for this Eco-giveaway contest.

From Twitter, Michelle aka CanadianGoddess, has won the Recycled Woven Juice Box Mini Bag. Congratulations Michelle!

Our Facebook winner is Amber, the 5 in 1 Retro Kitchen Bags go to her, hopefully she can get rid of all those plastic bags accumulating in her pantry! Just remember to recycle! Congrats Amber!

Last but not least, Lois has won us over with her answer as to why she should win. I mean come on, her daughter was born on Earth day! That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing that with us Lois, we hope you enjoy your new Stainless Water Bottle!

We had a lot of fun with this, hopefully you did too! If you liked these products and want to browse more please visit our site.

We are always open to any questions or ideas you may have as to how we can further lessen the environmental impact in our day to day business! So, feel free to bug us! feedback@organicbug.com

Cheers to a healthy 2010!