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REVOLVER:The music industry is an environmental toxicant. Every single step of the way – from the CD you buy, the studio it was recorded in, the merchandise T-shirt you wear – there is an adverse affect on any notion of sustainability. And that’s all before you get to the ever-popular music festival. You may think it’s all hippy and nice to loll around a field for a few days, but from how you got there, to the water you drink, the damage to the environment just keeps on building up.

The past few years have seen a number of clever initiatives to try to do something about the colossal amount of carbon emissions caused by the industry, but as strange it may seem, the music business is a very conservative body. Just look at all the palaver there was about accepting the MP3 download as a saleable product. With any environmental initiative, you need a critical mass to really effect change. So far there is no real sign of this happening in the music world, but you can see progress in small little pockets here and there.