Marriage: Glastonbury 2003
Glastonbury 2003 is being hailed as the "best ever".
This year, the organisers asked festival goers to keep Worthy Farm clean, green and beautiful, following the environmental damage caused by the previous years' event. Greenpeace help spread the word with our Look after this living land animation.
It worked! On the final day of the festival, Michael Eavis announced that the message had got through - the streams and rivers were less polluted. Glastonbury 2003 was also "carbon neutral", because an anonymous donor paid Future Forests the funds needed to plant 1,700 trees, offsetting the environmentally unfriendly carbon dioxide produced by the entire festival.
The Greenpeace field was as popular as ever! Festivalgoers flocked to our area, where they could chill out in the Enchanted Forest, chow down at Cafe Tango, and/or clean up in one of our hot solar-powered showers. It was a home away from home for many!
We also opened up a GM-o-Meter polling booth, and 96% of those who visited voted to keep GM out of our food!
Greenpeace invited Glastonbury artists to sign a petition from the music industry to Tony Blair, calling upon the government to ban imports of illegally logged timber taken from the world's ancient rainforests from entering the UK. Several bands also took up the opportunity to pose in Greenpeace campaign t-shirts.
A wide range of bands and artists got behind our Save or Delete campaign, including: The Thrills, Turin Brakes, Athlete, Cooper Temple Clause, Beth Orton, Sparta, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Goldfrapp, Sugababes, Tom McRae, Moloko, Lamb, Grandaddy, Damien Rice, Feeder, A Man Called Adam, Howard Marks, Don Letts, Bez, Zane Lowe, Lauren Laverne and Phil Jupitus.
Greenpeace is a major benefactor of the Glastonbury Festival - each year Michael Eavis makes a very generous contribution to Greenpeace. What does Greenpeace spend the money on?
