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The Rainbow Recycling program at the Great Blue Heron Music Festival separates recyclables, compost and trash using over 60 colorful
recycling stations and a dedicated crew. Photo courtesy of the Great Blue Heron Music Festival

Then there’s the San Diego Reggae Vegan charge to respect the environment. Do your part to

Fest and L.A. Reggae Vegan Fest, which add momentum to this movement – demand
are the first and only 100% vegan reggae green services at your favorite reggae festivals

festivals, true to the Ital roots of reggae. Their and embrace environmentally friendly practices

mission is to encourage people to “Go Vegan” in your daily life.
and save the planet. Bob Linden, organizer

of these events and president of Go Vegan Jessica Farthing is a freelance journalist, often

Radio, urges, “Only eating what grows from found writing her articles around her three kids,

the earth is sustainable. The only solution husband, cat, two dogs and a horse. Reggae
to environmental devastation that includes music has brought calm and creativity to her life

climate change, deforestation, resource and she listens every day when she works. She

depletion, eutrophication, water shortage, can be found online at her writer’s site –

soil erosion, air and water pollution, habitat www.jessicafarthing.com – or in real life,

destruction, desertification, ocean depletion somewhere in the ocean.
and mass extinction, is a population shift to a

vegan lifestyle.” As the editor of the Reggae Festival Guide,
Irene Johnson is thrilled to see so many reggae
The earth is changing rapidly as we use festivals evolving with environmentally conscious

its resources. With such waste and impact objectives in mind!

associated with large events in the past, reggae
festivals worldwide are increasingly part of the

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