Carbon Offsets in Seattle

3/30 Seattle Times
Band plants trees to offset tour
By Nicole Brodeur
Seattle Times staff columnist

No offense to Mr. Jagger, but it's never only rock 'n' roll.
It's trucks and buses, freight being shipped. It's air travel and hotel rooms. It's electricity in the arenas. It's fans driving to the show and back.
All that rocking and rolling can rack up some 5,400 metric tons of carbon-equivalent emissions.
And for Pearl Jam, it's just bad business, and no way to treat the place its members call home.
So the band has partnered with the Cascade Land Conservancy (CLC) to mitigate carbon-equivalent emissions from its ongoing 2009 world tour.
Pearl Jam will donate $210,000 to plant 33 acres of native trees and plants in four Puget Sound communities: Seattle, Kirkland, Redmond and Kent.
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