Summer Camp Music Festival is proud to be a GREEN festival. We’re taking the necessary steps to reduce our carbon footprint, support local business and reduce, reuse, and recycle. Take a second to learn about our greening and recycling initiatives and to discover how YOU can help us keep Summer Camp a clean, beautiful, and earth friendly event.
The Green Team: Each year at Summer Camp, volunteers help us to collect and sort the trash that is created over the four festival days. The trash is sorted into three groups, recyclables, compostables, and landfill items. The Green Team works tirelessly to ensure that the grounds stay clean and that all festival attendees are educated about recycling and composting programs at the park.
Color-Coded Bins: Summer Camp provides color coded recycling, composting, and garbage bins throughout the festival grounds. The Green Team and Old Hippie Recycling ensure that all recycling and compost items are sorted at the festival and distributed to the proper sites.
Biodiesel Generators: Summer Camp provides biodiesel generators for all our electric needs. Summer Camp worked with Caterpillar engineers to approve B20 (a mix of 20% bio-diesel) for the generators which had previously only been approved for B5 (5% bio-diesel). Caterpillar’s approval of the B20 mixture allowed for the rental companies to ensure the warranty on all the generators used at camp – who previously had not approved the use of biodiesel fuel above B5. This approval also means that anyone else using Caterpillar generators around the country (or world for that matter) can now use B20 fuel.
Supporting Local Business: The Charity and Greening Fee is used to support a grant program for local community groups and charities, as well as to support initiatives to limit the environmental impact of the festival. The Greening Fee is utilized to buy carbon offsets that help to counteract the carbon footprint of the festival, to purchase biodegradable plastic products that are used throughout the festival, to maintain our recycling program, and to equip our generators with biodiesel fuel. The Charity Fee has previously gone to support local organizations, such as: Rome Youth Activities, CEC PTO, Altrusa Inc. Of Chillicothe, Chilli Cemetery Enhancement Comm., Hair Company Kids, Love-in-Action Food Pantry, Chillicothe Public Library, South School Intensive First Program, 3 Sisters Antique Tractor Club, Chillicothe Summer Theatre, Pearce Community Center, Chillicothe Skate/Bike Park, Chilli Dawgs, 4th of July Committee, Three Sisters Folk Art School, Money for Banquet, IVC Marching Band, and Rescue 33.
Education: Each year Summer Camp brings in a large group of nonprofit organizations to educate attendees on keeping our environment clean and green. Organizations educate on issues of sustainability, reusable energy sources, carbon offsetting, and much more! Take some time to check out their booths and learn more from workshops, demonstrations, discussions, and even acoustic performances at the Soulshine tent that highlight the goals and accomplishments of each group!
If you would like to bring your non profit organization to Summer Camp Festival 2010 please apply here
What YOU can do: To encourage recycling and composting at Summer Camp, each attendee is given three marked garbage bags upon entering: one for recycling, one for composting, and the last for garbage. We encourage all fans to keep their camp site clean and tidy, to recycle, and to compost during their stay at Three Sisters Park. When packing for Summer Camp, consider the waste that you’re bringing INTO the park, as well as the waste that you’ll leave behind – be conscious about your food packaging, bring reusable aluminum water bottles, purchase used camping products whenever possible, use pocket ashtrays, and always be mindful of other guests at Summer Camp.
