How This Oregon Music Festival Has Helped Plant Hundreds of Trees & Protect Acres of Rainforest

Seemingly tiny initiatives tin marque a large interaction erstwhile it comes to making festivals greener — a constituent Oregon’s Cascade Equinox Festival is demonstrating with its ongoing sustainability program.

The festival’s 3rd variation happened Sep. 19-21 successful Redmond, Oregon, with organizers erstwhile again implementing a programme they accidental has helped works hundreds of trees and support thousands of acres of rainforest successful the event’s archetypal 3 years.

The programme is designed astir the “Eco-Band initiative,” which allows attendees to upgrade their passes to see a 100% hemp wristband for $20. A typical for the lawsuit reports that this year’s programme raised capable wealth to works 394 trees successful Oregon forests and to support astir 511 acres of onshore successful Ecuador. Another astir $700 raised done donations connected the festival’s website went to the extortion of different 177 acres of the aforesaid Ecuadorian land, which is location to jaguars and Andean bears.

Since Cascade Equinox’s 2023 debut, the hemp wristband programme has raised funds to works 601 trees successful the section Willamette National Forest and to support 1,665 acres of Amazon rainforest. The second inaugural has been done successful concern with SAVIMBO, an enactment founded by Indigenous leaders successful the Colombian Amazon that pays Indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers successful tropical forests to sphere these ecosystems. The festival’s task has specifically worked with the Cofán Indigenous Community successful Chandia Na’en, Ecuador.

The hemp wristband programme was executed successful concern with Green Disco, an enactment composed of promoters, producers and biology experts who consult connected unrecorded events, on with Earthwin.org, which works to grow acquisition connected mindful surviving for planetary well-being.

“Sustainability is simply a halfway rule for Cascade Equinox, and successful starring by illustration we anticipation that different festivals announcement and marque akin efforts and improvements,” festival organizer Josh Pollack tells Billboard. “We’re thrilled to person planted implicit 600 autochthonal trees locally successful Oregon and preserved implicit 1,600 acres of Amazon rainforest successful Ecuador implicit 3 years. Big acknowledgment to Earthwin and Green Disco for being unthinkable partners and sharing our imaginativeness for euphony festivals making a affirmative ecological interaction some locally and globally.”

The 2025 variation of Cascade Equinox Festival featured artists including Sylvan Esso, Disclosure, Big Gigantic, TroyBoi and Chromeo. The adjacent lawsuit is slated for Sept. 18-20, 2026.

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