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What can you do?  Have a Carbon Free Big Day Out!

For the first time this year the Big Day Out is able to offer patrons the option to offset their Carbon Emissions while attending the Big Day Out with the creation of a “Carbon Free Day”.

By calculating the Australian Greenhouse emissions for a year (1.) and dividing by the population and then by the days in a year we can determine the per capita emissions for a person for a day.

So by opting in when you buy your Big Day Out ticket online you can include a Carbon Free Big Day Out in your ticket purchase basket.

The Carbon Free Day will cost $1.34 per person per day.

This covers the cost of offsetting carbon through Mallee Eucalyptus tree plantations over the life of the trees and is inclusive of ticket agency processing costs, credit card charges and GST but with no mark-ups from us.

What we at Big Day Out do.

Prior to the 2007 show Big Day Out conducted two energy audits of the show to understand the greenhouse gas emissions caused by our energy usage.

Our first initiative was to reduce our energy use where possible.

We made a commitment to “Carbon Offset” the show and as a consequence in 2007 planted 6,735 Eucalyptus Polybractea (Blue Leaved Mallee) on approximately 4.5 hectares of land at Narromine in central NSW.

In 2008 as a consequence of a further energy audit we planted 9,248 Eucalyptus Polybractea (Blue Leaved Mallee) at a property 10km outside Fifield in central west NSW.

These trees which are now small are permanent plantings on farm reserves and produce oxygen and carbon stocks using a sophisticated model developed collaboratively by several leading research agencies, including the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Production Forestry, and is consistent with the technical guidelines provided by the Australian Greenhouse Office. The credit is recouped over a 30 year lifespan of the trees.

Our carbon credit provider is CO2 Australia and they are managing the trees on our behalf.

As we have said before, the reason we have chosen tree plantation for creating carbon credits is because it creates jobs, has sound conservation benefits, reduces soil salinity and improves farm viability in marginal areas as well as converting Greenhouse gas CO2 to oxygen for us to breathe.

An energy audit of the 2009 show is planned again and our commitment to a “Carbon Offset” Big Day Out Event into the future remains steadfast.

We are hoping that you will join us at the Big Day Out and help move the goalposts back a little bit to slow the pace of climate change.