Two Thousand Trees Festival
11th of July 2008 - 12th of July 2008
A green festival. An ethical festival. A music festival.
For us, 2000trees is all about achieving a friendly and intimate festival experience, so for this year’s festival tickets will be strictly limited to 2,000. The cost for weekend tickets is £39, for which you’ll get two nights camping under the stars in the stunning Cotswolds, plus three stages featuring over 50 bands and DJs.
So what are the origins of 2000trees?
Ethical
2000trees was born out of our general disillusionment with the mainstream music festivals we’ve been attending for the last decade. Six friends increasingly frustrated with ever spiralling costs, poor facilities and pursuit of profit at all costs.
To us, festivals should have less commercial emphasis; and instead be about a love of live music and having a great time in a sunny field! And that is where you find us, six music fans in their late 20’s determined to give UK festival-goers a great value for money experience.
Just great bands in a chilled out, affordable and inspiring environment.
Environmental
2000trees reflects our desire to promote green issues and awareness, particularly the threats from man-made climate change. We believe it is our social responsibility to have as little negative impact on the environment as possible. In a time where intervention on a governmental level is essential, we also want to show that individuals can take positive action to reduce their own carbon footprint.
To give you a flavour of our efforts, we have the following green policies / actions in place for 2007 & 2008:
- With the help of the good folk from The Maker Green Team we have a comprehensive on-site recycling scheme. This achieved a staggering 66% recycling rate in its first year. This percentage is not only huge for a festival, but to put it into perspective, it is double the amount any local authority can achieve in any one month period!
- All food and drinks on site are served in either reusable or biodegradable (corn starch) containers.
- Where possible only locally produced, organic food and drink is sold.
- Various environmental campaigners are situated on the festival site providing information on how we can all do our bit for the environment.
- Our policy is that the vast majority (if not all our bands) are UK-based, resulting in less miles travelled to reach the festival and zero use of air transport.
- All power and lighting is produced using locally-sourced biodiesel, which is significantly better than any petro-chemical alternative; and at last year’s festival ensured that we saved over 2 tonnes of carbon (in just one weekend!). That’s great, but the use of solar, wind and even pedal power is more environmentally friendly and thus our long term plan is to increase our use of renewable energy sources.
We realise that we still have a long way to go but we will never stop striving to improve. As well as sustainable energy sources we are also currently looking into sustainable festival travel and onsite composting. So watch this space…
Musical
Here at 2000trees we are not interested in genre distinctions. At the main stage, the acoustic stage and the GreenHouse the music will range from rock to indie to dance to metal to pop, to the down right strange! The only thing we want is for you to have a great live festival experience.
Help us to make something special and something different.
Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival
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| Location: | Cheltenham, UK | |
| Website: | http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk |
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