The Do LaB’s Greenlight

Lightning In A Bottle is looking for a few extra hands to volunteer on it’s Green team this year.

Volunteers are asked to work four 4-hr shifts throughout the festival weekend, at the end of which the check or credit card info submitted will shredded (and recycled) or your credit card info deleted from our secure database.

Tasks range from helping run our information booth, to trash detail, to posting signs or lighting around the festival grounds, and much more.

Those interested in applying should visit the festival’s official website here for more info and to sign up:
http://lightninginabottle.org/2008/volunteer.html

If you have any questions or would like more detail, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

We look forward to hearing from you.

The latest Do LaB email update just went out this afternoon. For those that haven’t yet gotten to their inbox or are not yet on the list, here’s the scoop:

Announcing…the Lucent L’amour
Lumi Contest

We have 14 Lumies at the Do LaB that we used at various festivals all over the world this past Summer, and we are giving them to you to create art around Los Angeles!

The top 2 winners of the Lumi Contest, with the most unique, crazy, ingenious art piece will get a pair of tickets to Lucent L’amour!

For all the info on how to enter, visit the
Lumi Contest Page

PRINT AT HOME
to avoid line at the door…
Thanks to Beticketing we are delighted to offer a new print at home option for your tickets. You can now easily print tickets for Lucent L’amour on your home printer, which will allow for much faster entry to the event. Only a few $25 tickets left.

Order yours and print them at home today!

New Act Just Added!

BEATS ANTIQUE create a definitive union between the old and the new. Tribal derivations is centered in Middle Eastern Bellydance, down tempo hip-hop, old school jazz, classical Indian, and North African gnawa music.

We’re happy to announce the official logo for Greenlight:

A very big thanks to Albertico for his amazing design assistance!

So today was the start of the annual MacWorld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

Steve Jobs unveiled several new products and features his company is now offering and even touched upon several new sustainability factors with Apple’s new MacBook Air. As mentioned on News.com’s Live Blog From Macworld 2008 :

“Jobs highlights the environmentally friendly features of the MacBook Air . The environment seems to be a perennial issue with Apple and the green crowd. Apple has eliminated mercury and arsenic from display components, and PVCs from the circuit boards. Packaging sizes were reduced as well, he says”

Nice to hear, especially since many of us Do LaBBers swear by our Mac’s, but with all those iPhone profits, seems like they could be doing a lot more.

Where do you think Apple should work to improve upon its sustainability?

By Shena Turlington

Did you know that according to the United Nations, methane from cow farts is the “greatest threat to the climate, forests, and wildlife”? And cow burps. And sheep poo . .. and… goats. The methane produced from livestock emissions burns holes in the ozone and causes warming 20 times more than carbon dioxide. Not only that, but the fuel burned to transport the meat, produce fertilizer and grow feed produces 9% of all carbon dioxide emissions. 100 other polluting gases also come from livestock, including over two-thirds of ammonia emissions, which cause acid rain. Not to mention deforestation, polluting drinking water, introducing alien bacteria, and a number of other environmental impacts. All in all, livestock emissions produce 18% of all greenhouse gases that cause global warming. That impact is greater than car emissions and all other forms of transportation put together!

So what can we do about it, aside from boycotting the meat, dairy, and leather industries? The methane could be harnessed to generate electricity, but this would require keeping the animals in an enclosed environment. It also still wouldn’t solve the root of the problem: the unsustainable numbers of livestock being produced. In the mean time, the Aussies are in luck since kangaroo farts happen to be methane-free. Scientists are attempting to transfer the methane-preventing bacteria found in kangaroo guts to other livestock.

As for the rest of us, who knew being vegetarian might be greener than driving a hybrid?

The Do LaB’s Green Team welcomes you to the first of many posts to the Greenlight Project.

First of all, just what is this  Greenlight Project  anyway?

Well, as some of you already know, The Do LaB has been producing a little ol’ green arts and music festival known as  Lightning In A Bottle  for quite awhile now. From this production arose the need for a  Green Team  and then from that came the inspired vision of this project, know and forever dubbed, the Greenlight.

What the Greenlight is about is still evolving, as this is just one of the latest creative endeavors birthed by the ‘LaB. But what we are responsible for, from an executive overview if you will, is a positioning of the Green Team’s finest to oversee its parent operation (The Do LaB) to operate as sustainably and socially conscious as possible throughout all its endeavors.

We’ll be blogging away about upcoming events, year-round operations and productions, happenings throughout the greater community, and anything else we feel pertinent to better help enlighten and inspire all of us in our green journey’s.

We want to welcome community interaction through commenting here and will be happy to welcome any feedback, questions or comments you may have.

Stay tuned for more news and updates soon as we bring you LIB’s Green Report, near daily posts and much more.

Go Big, Go Green!