Manchester’s Bonnaroo Music Festival is famous for it's traffic stand-stills, but the event is moving ahead with efforts to not only entertain the huge crowd, but to serve as a model of sustainability. In Bonnaroo’s wake, staffers reclaim 30-plus tons of refuse via recycling and composting and all in just four days. This year, Bonnaroo won an Environmental Stewardship Award from the State of Tennessee, and we’re about to see why...
We think it’s great news that several Tennessee Prisons are choosing to Go Green, and Live Green Tennessee recently visited Sergeant Doug Griffith of the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Griffith explained a recycling program that turns leftover food from five prisons into rich, fertile mulch that’s then used on a 100-acre kitchen garden. The inmates working the farm save the prison system—and you, the taxpayer—money... But more important is the responsibility, the fresh air, and the opportunity to learn practical, employable and life-long skills to help trustees adjust to life upon release.