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The 2010 Oya festival was held Aug. 10-14. Plans are already being made for 2011.
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A lot of music festivals are playing a greener tune these days, with carbon offsets, recycling programs and the involvement of nonprofits. Think Lollapalooza and Outside Lands, Bonnaroo and others. One music festival you probably haven't heard of, the Oya festival in Oslo, Norway, is being called the greenest music festival ever.
The Oya festival was recently honored with four industry awards for its ecological approach to live music, with four stages powered by renewable energy, notes BBC News.
Oya 2010 hosted 200 bands on Aug. 10-14, including Pavement, Iggy & The Stooges, LCD Soundsystem and The Flaming Lips. The festival site was powered entirely by a hydro-electric dam. Rubbish from the event was recycled, along with sewage from about 16,000 daily concert-goers. The sewage will be specially treated, turned into biomethane gas and used to power buses in the city, BBC says.
Can any festival beat this? Let's hope there's some competition come next summer.
For now, take a look at all the eco features listed on the Oya website. You'll probably need Google Translate.
Oya has helped write the book on the greening of festivals. Literally. It's called the Environmental Handbook.
