Movies with a conscience: Carbon positive pop festival comes to the Wairarapa

Punters enjoying the background music at Tora Bombora. Photo and Dane Scott

A Wairarapa music event is just hoping to make partying sustainable afresh with what’s believed to be the place’s first carbon-positive festival.

From it’s inception a few years throughout the, Tora Bombora has held sustainability as a core value, but this halloween season festival director Louis Murphy-Harris is without question hoping to make the event even more climate-friendly.

“We were gonna make this a carbon-neutral festival, but we just thought why don’t we healthy and balanced a carbon-positive festival. ”

The sold-out event was always sponsored by Forever Forests attaining which means all emissions from the celebration, including attendees transport too in addition to the from the site, will be offset.

Festival director Louis Murphy-Harris. Photo and Supplied

“Every entity produces carbon, the world produces carbon, so one way to counteract that is by planting more trees and shrubs or managing forests that will endure forever. ”

As well as here, Murphy-Harris told the Herald friends and family are asked not to bring light plastics and said buying poor-quality single-use goods is not acceptable.

“The whole policy pertaining to Tora’s waste is bring your diy and take your own. So we don’t have any rubbish bins on site. lunch break

Murphy-Harris on stage at the last Tora Bombora. Photo / Dane Jeff

Attendees are given a compostable cassava roots bag on entry, and a new waste they generate they’re sought to take with them.

“It’s just the right thing to be doing, thoroughly. If we don’t change the way consumers consume, act, live and carry on around others, we won’t be extraordinary beautiful environment that you and I are undoubtedly lucky to have. ”

Forever Forests manager Adrian Toilet said they decided to partner with all the festival because of its sustainable ethos and simply Murphy-Harris’ desire to protect the environment.

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“We’ve gone through combined with done the calculations and made undoubtedly everything [carbon-generated] is regarded as overestimated, ” Lou said.

He said they toyed with the idea of just being carbon-neutral, though they decided against doing just the smallest.

“A lot of citizens focus on off-setting and a one for a start of undoing the bad. But My partner and i kind of describe it as if you’ve got this particular big hole and there’s a guy at the bottom and if every time they appreciate a shovel load of earth out someone at the top throws a meaningful shovel load back in you’re not once more making any progress. ”

Invitees are encouraged to think sustainably when back for the festival. Photo / Frances Scrimgeour

Due to its size and target group, Murphy-Harris said Tora Bombora had to be easier to manage sustainability-wise than big festivals.

“Massive general audience festivals are all doing fantastic conisderations to, slowly, try and reduce their foot prints, their emissions and alter the behaviour of their attendees. Which is super magnificent. It’s just a long hard warfare especially when people are pretty drunk or possibly want to party – it’s hard to find them to pick up their waste. micron

He said has been feasible to do sustainability on a greater scale, but it’s up to the fêtes to market the fact and drive information technology into attendees well before they come relating to site.

• The Tora Bombora folk festiva runs from January 22-24 effectively line-up features local acts along with There’s a Tuesday, Soaked Oats but Hummicide.