Seattle rockers Pearl Jam have unveiled plans to make their music more green friendly.
The planet is in a tight spot. Rising sea levels, shifting temperatures and fading ice caps are all leading to a potential environmental catastrophe on a par with the most lurid of Hollywood disaster movies.
The music world has been slow to react. Famously, Radiohead are entirely carbon neutral and plants trees to offset the fumes from their tour bus.
Now Seattle giants Pearl Jam are set to follow suit. Long term supporters of climate change protests, the band have unveiled plans to turn themselves in a Green institution.
Speaking to Reuters, guitarist Stone Gossard explained that “Pearl Jam is a band but we are also a business”.
“We’re seeing ourselves as a Washington business, a regional business that is acknowledging its carbon footprint and hoping to inspire other businesses.”
Pearl Jam are launching ambitious new plans to help the environment. The grunge legends are set to $210,000 in planting trees in Washington State to offset 7,000 tons of CO2 from the band’s 2009 tour.
In addition to their own fumes, Pearl Jam are planning to offset the transportation pollution caused by their fans.
Finishing, Gossard urged more business to turn Green. “It’s doable. It’s not going to kill your company and if anything it will enhance your company’s ability to sell whatever it is selling by being good stewards of the land,” he said.
