Letter to the Editor: Guster cares about the environment

By KANSAN

Monday, April 2, 2007

Members of the band Guster, campus environmental groups, and the Campus Climate Challenge invite you to join us in a town hall forum to discuss sustainability on campus today at 2:30 p.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Memorial Union.

This open meeting is a key part of Guster’s Campus Consciousness Tour, and the collective environmental goals of the band and its touring partners. We believe college campuses are epicenters for social change in this country and are in a unique position to lead the way in sustainable practices and technologies.

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Guster’s tour itself consists of many eco-friendly elements including biodiesel powered busses and trucks, biodegradable cups and plates for backstage catering and organic cotton merchandise.

The mission of the Campus Consciousness Tour is to inform, inspire and activate students and above all to leave a positive impact on each community and college/university that the tour reaches. We aim to support the groups on campus who are working to make the school more “green” and have asked them to play a central role in this forum, which will be half presentation and half open discussion.

Mark Orlowski of the Sustainable Endowments Institute will also speak about how schools can use their enormous shareholder power to create positive change. Did you know over 350 billion dollars are being invested through college endowments in this country?

Attendees will also have a chance to check out the biodiesel-powered tour bus as part of the “Pimp My Clean Ride” demonstration.

Guster’s tour itself consists of many eco-friendly elements including biodiesel powered busses and trucks, biodegradable cups and plates for backstage catering and organic cotton merchandise. The Stonyfield Farm Shift Pavilion will be set up at the concert where you can learn about renewable energy and alternative fuels, offset your personal energy use by buying a “Big Green Friend” Carbon Offset sticker and donate canned goods to your local food bank.

Anton Bengtson writing for Guster and the Campus Climate Challenge

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