The Artist Farm and I have created a gift for our community – a pledge to eliminate litter at concerts.  You can read why you should sign this below, or you can go directly to the pledge here: www.cleanconcert.org

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I think we can all agree that the world would be a better place if we humans could be zero waste. No more trash, and everything used or decomposing in a healthy cycle the way all other animals do it.

The entire ecosystem of packaging, creation, use, disposal, recycling, and all that… it’s big- too big for most of us to comprehend. But there is something simple you can understand. You.

What can you do to affect any change here?

The answer starts with a simple task. When you purchase something, the cycle of disposal is yours with that ownership. In other words, if you consumed it, it is your responsibility to dispose of it properly. For bodily waste, we have toilets. For consumer waste, we have bins. Much like you wouldn’t put your bodily waste all over the ground, you shouldn’t put your trash their either.

Unfortunately, the current thinking goes that if you paid money for a ticket then someone else should clean up after you; that it is your right to litter. There is a better way!

If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself. You can start by not externalizing your responsibility. You can start by embracing sustainable values that apply everywhere (at home or camping in the woods) over situational values (that somehow it is ok to litter at concerts). You can start right now.

I have created a pledge to keep concert grounds clean, to take responsibility for your own trash, and therefore to contribute to a cleaner environment for all.

This Clean Concert Pledge is about more than littering. It is about:

• assuming your personal responsibility.
• recognizing that you are the door to change in the world.
• seeing your connection to all those around you.
• not having to worry about sitting on a paper plate covered in mustard… because grass is so much better.

I hope you’ll agree, that you see the wisdom in this, that you’ll sign the pledge here: www.cleanconcert.org, and spread the word.

Let’s keep changing the world one person at a time.