There are two ways to do a festival. There’s the take all your own clobber, tent, cooking stuff, etc. etc. and unceremoniously drag it all from the carpark to the campsite, five or six trips ought to do it. Cook your own meals, trudge through the mud (or not, hopefully) to reach the showers, queue for an hour, have your shower, hope you remembered your flip-flops. Back to the tent only to realise you need the loo. Back through the mud (or not, hopefully) to queue for the loo. By the time the second day gets there the toilets are no longer being cleaned/emptied because the special cleaning lorry can’t make it through the mud and has to be towed away by a tractor. Still, it was fun, but next year you might stump up for the easier option.

Here’s the easier option. Book your accommodation through myhab or Tangerine Fields, and buy all your food at the festival. Why is this greener? Because you don’t need your car to get all your clobber to the festival. And because you won’t be tempted to abandon your cheap and muddy tent for the festival cleanup operation to deal with (read: chuck into landfill). These services make festival going easier, more comfortable, and much, much greener.

myhab is luxury festival accommodation that’s completely hassle-free and is recycled after the event. In fact, most of the parts used in the manufacture of myhab pods are already recycled, and they’re entirely UK made. I’m sure most could not say that about their tents. The service comes complete with well maintained shower and loo blocks in the myhab enclosure. It costs £120 per person sharing a 2-man myhab.

Tangerine Fields meets you at the festival with a ready pitched tent, leaving you free to carry your beer/children. They offer from a 2-man dome tent to a 6-person caravan and lots of camping extras. You can hire sleeping bags that are yours to take home at the end of the festival, or they’re cleaned and donated to Oxfam. Now isn’t that better than landfill? There are a variety of “packages”, from tent only for just over £50 per person to “the works” including airbeds and showers for around £80 per person sharing.

Stay tuned for more about how to be a green festival goer.

Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Tracy Stokes