Transportation

Word to the wise: Ride your bike.
Download a PDF of bike routes from Civic Center BART at SFBike.org. There’s complimentary valet bike parking along John F. Kennedy Drive, courtesy of Levi’s Mobile Bike Shop — for easiest access, use the entrance at 30th Avenue and Fulton Street. If you’re not biking, though, Esurance offers a shuttle from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, which is right next to Civic Center, and there will also be free pedi-cab rides along John F. Kennedy Drive to the Stanyan Park and 8th Avenue entrances, as well as the Crossover Bridge. Muni runs multiple bus lines from downtown San Francisco to Golden Gate Park; Outside Lands’ website refers you to the routes on 511.org, though we’d suggest taking the #5 from Powell Street to 25th Avenue. Festival producers offer a fairly comprehensive list of local bike rentals and taxi services at SFOutsideLands.com, under the “Getting There” section; they also suggest the website Zimride for carpool options. One cautionary note: Parking is always scarce in that part of San Francisco, and this weekend it will be virtually nonexistent.

more tips on music, food at: ebx, 08.08.12.

Beginning with the very first Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) over a decade ago, The Do LaB team have worked hard over the years to ensure that even as our festival grows in size, we always put the environment first and foremost by implementing new ways in making the event as green as possible. Helping to make that happen is Shena Turlington, our accomplished Environmental Director, whose creative thinking and passion for our planet has played a pivotal part in why LIB has become “North America’s Greenest Festival.”

“Being green at LIB is not an add-on as it is at most festivals,” added Turlington. “At LIB it’s one of the foundations. The Do LaB is constantly putting every festival decision through the filter of, ‘Is this going to make a positive impact on the world?’.

Read the rest of our interview with Shena and learn more about what we’re doing to make 2012 our best, most green year yet.

You can also read their Green Report 2011 (PDF).

Free water initiative:

We will again be providing free water this year: purchase an LIB water bottle, or bring your own bottle. Water filters at water stations improve taste and remove any VOCs, sediments, and chlorine.

Plastic bottles will NOT be available for sale.  We also ask that you please not bring them.

 Additional Water Initiatives:

• An on site Environmental Impact Assessment report is performed to ensure our activities do not negatively impact the ground water at Irvine Lake
• Signage educates attendees of the benefits of low-flow toilets and water and shower taps
• Bathroom faucets are adjusted to low flow settings
• Greywater from showers is used to control air pollution by spraying it on the grounds dust

on-site EIA???

and fyeah! no crummy plastic water bottles.

guess who’s going to LIB? :)

only 3 weeks away!!

photo by daniel jung.

A new report released this morning shows that Outside Lands generates more than $67 million for the local economy (about $60 million of that going to SF alone). The report, authored by San Francisco State University, also shows that the music festival created 756 jobs. The annual music and arts festival is put on by Berkeley-based Another Planet Entertainment and Superfly Presents.

download the full report here (PDF).
eastbayexpress, 09.02.12.

why haven’t I been to Outside Lands yet

I guess I’ll make my-month-back-in-the-Bay august.
the plan.