Our Commitment to Mother Earth

Solar Powered Stages and Sound
The primary power source for sound on our stages will be a solar power installation built on-site just for LIB. The installation will be setup the week prior to the event and placed in the middle of the grounds for festival goers to check out. The solar panels are being provided by Energy Efficiency Solar Electric Solutions, who have been providing residential and commercial solar power solutions in Southern California since 1989.

Share the Ride
SpaceShare is teaming up with Columbia Gorge Organics and creating a rideboard for Lightning in a Bottle. Find neighbors who love the same music as you do, make connections at LIB then carpool all summer. If there are two people and four seats in your car, one quick search will let you fill your car or leave it behind. LIB Rideshare

Our Tickets
We are providing tickets for our event through In Ticketing. In Ticketing is the leading environmentally-friendly ticketing agency, and they are connected, motivated and inspired to create change. They use sustainable practices, recycled materials, initiate tree plantings, support green events, and help build communities. The part that sold us, though, is that they print their tickets on Hemp/Flax ticket stock with soy inks, and they mail them in tree-free envelopes. Every business in the world should take a look at their example and start to follow In Ticketing.

Bio Diesel
In case our wonderful solar panels decide not to work, our back-up generators at LIB will be run with bio fuel, reducing the emissions drastically. We are working towards a future LIB when all event vehicles and engines are run on bio fuel.

Below are some resources that can lead your green explorations further.

www.sustainableworks.com - Located in Santa Monica and expanding through the City of LA providing workshops for greening the home, school, and business.

www.greenopia.com- green business directory in LA

www.SustainableLA.org - courses in sustainability and permaculture in LA

www.Sustainlane.com - great resource for sustainable products, based in SF

www.spitfireagency.com - greening anything, events, etc

www.cityrepair.org - how to truely be involved in community & natural
building

www.treepeople.com - planting trees in LA & California, working on
solutions to the LA river, and more.

www.LAPostCarbon.org - tons of workshops, events, and information around LA dealing with post-carbon issues & environment - plus newsletters with valuable info!

www.earthengine.net

The lightning in a bottle team would like to thank all of our green vendors and especially Kachina Katrina for helping us green this event.