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Top green music stories of 2007

Posted by Sarah van Schagen at 10:31 PM on 20 Dec 2007

Read more about: music | green living

Here are the Official Top Green Music Stories of 2007, listed in very particular order and determined via a very scientific process (a combination of my memory and Grist's archives):

Live Earth concert5. Sheryl Crow proposes a one-square limit on toilet-paper use; TP-users fail to get joke.

4. Oscar awarded to Inconvenient Truth's eco-song.

3. Industry-wide search for eco-song-that-doesn't-suck continues.

2. Summer music festivals go for green, while festival-goers smoke it.

1. Live Earth concerts bring together rock stars, eco-celebs, and that politician dude.

P.S. For more on green music news, see our list of the Top 15 Green Musicians and Bands.

P.P.S. Think my picks are out of tune? Suggest your own additions.

Don't forget the instruments and the packaging

This list is great! The only things I would add is the Music Wood campaign that really took off this year. Gibson, Martin, Taylor and Fender took some powerful steps to produce guitars more sustainably. Additionally, lots of new packaging options emerged this year that allowed musicians of any income bracket to distribute physical copies of their music with a lower environmental impact.

I wrote about both items on my blog, GreenBase, that focuses on the greening of the music industry.

Hope to see you there in the new year!

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