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A green party

December 3, 2012

The biggest music festival of its kind, Germany's MELT! is heading down a low-carbon path.

https://p.dw.com/p/16uxX
Besucher des Musikfestivals Melt! stehen am Freitag (17.07.09) in der Baggerstadt Ferropolis in der Naehe von Graefenhainichen vor der Hauptbuehne. 20.000 Besucher werden bei dem bis zum Sonntag (19.07.09) stattfindenden Festival erwartet. Foto: Sebastian Willnow/ddp. Bildersatz zu: Feiern im Sinne des Klimaschutzes, August 2011, Brigitta Moll
Melt!-FestivalImage: dapd

Europe’s largest indie and electronic music festival emits as much carbon dioxide over one single weekend as a small town. That’s now set to change. The organizers of the “Melt! Festival“ want visitors to party sustainably. Solar panels at the festival’s grounds are to generate a part of the over 70,000 kilowatts needed for the E-guitars, amplifiers or lights over the weekend. And 700 of the visitors will travel to the festival by train. The festival, in cooperation with the “Green Music Initiative” is hoping to be a environmentally-friendly trailblazer for other festivals.