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We're happy to see the new site coming along and are looking forward to a great weekend at the Music Festival! See you there!

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AWESOME! have a great weekend!!!!

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Hi, and thanks for joining the RVL7 community!

We just got done setting up our new RVL7 Eco-Shop at the Rothbury Music Festival here in beautiful Rothbury Michigan! The place is amazing and the lineup is going to be incredible. The Eco Shop is up and ready, so check back later to see pictures of our bamboo and aluminum home for the next 11 music festivals. Be sure to check out the RVL7 event calendar to see where we'll be headed.

It's going to be a lot of fun traveling around the country with the Eco Shop, meeting cool people, and talking about what we can do together to create a better world.

Be sure to join our "RVL7 Seven Things" blog and tell us the seven things you're going to do this year to help make the world better, whatever it is:) That's the whole idea behind RVL7.

When we began a few years ago as "The RE:VOLVE Apparel Project for Sustainable Living", we had a couple of things in mind. We wanted to point to a positive future by putting meaningful art and messages on Tshirts, and put them on sustainable Tshirts. We've done that, and we managed to become leaders in sustainable apparel by committing to using GOTS standards, fair trade practices, and pioneering new technologies that can make a positive impact on the planet.

RVL7 is our celebration of that achievement. We will continue to work hard to improve our processes to protect the earth and the people that make our products.

We know you're all doing your part, too! So, share your efforts with others in the RVL7 community through our "RVL7 Seven Things" blog so that you can inspire, teach, learn, and benefit from being part of a community of people who acre and are leading the way down the path to a better world.

The fact you're here and reading this shows that you care. Thanks again for being a part of RVL7! Keep coming back and checking out what people are putting on their "Seven Things List" and help make it all happen.

Peace,
Joe Tomlinson
Founder RVL7, and The RE:VOLVE Apparel Project for Sustainable Living

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hey this is so great!

Love your tees and what you do for the betterment of humankind!

see you next time!

Wish I was there

I wish I was there. I'm listening to Modesky, Martin and Wood and thinking about ow lucky you are...

Rothbury day 3

Having a great time at Rothbury! Caught Jakob Dylan, The Wailers, Snoop, Michael Kang, Widespread Panic, and Thievery Corp yesterday, and got to listen to Modest Mouse, 311, The Drive-By Truckers, and a litle Primus as the evening wound down. The fireworks at midnoght were great, too.

The best part of Rothbury is the energy here. Everyone is having a great time and taking care to dispose of their waste in the appropriate manner using the compost, recycling, and landfill bins. Seems like the landfill bins are less full than th others, so that's great.

Most of all, there is a lot of discussion about the change that's going on now in our world, and the power each of has to drive that change. It is very inspiring.

Peace,
Joe

Rothbury Day 4

Another amazing day of music and good times!

Got the word yesterday that Rothbury's recycling, compost, and landfill program has succeeded at reducing landfill waste by 80%! They've done it by making three bins available throughout the venue, and staffing each bin location with volunteers who help festival goers place their refuse into the appropriate bin. So, not only are they taking care to reduce landfill waste, they are taking care to educate festival goers about how to properly separate their waste. Should be pretty simple to take this approach home and to work.

Pretty cool, and all made possible by Sarah Haynes' Spitfire Agency. It is Sarah's vision and hard work that made it happen - yeah Sarah!

Checked out a lot of great music yesterday. Citizen Cope, Michael Franti and Spearhead (got to dance on stage with my kids for the last song:), Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, and Dave Matthews Band. Took in a little STS9 on the way out.

A very good day.

Peace,
Joe

Rothbury's recycling

I don't understand why people everywhere don't recycle like they are doing here.

Rothbury's recycling

I do ;)

Rothbury's recycling

I do ;)

Rothbury's recycling

Great point. I think we have all been a little too easy on the system in general, and should demand a choice in all public waste streams.

What we saw at Rothbury was an education in sorting and dealing with waste. The result was that people did sort their waste and put it in the right bins. I walked the venue on the last night after Phil Lesh played with Sarah Haynes from Spitfire Agency, and we were stoked to see that people were continuing to place their stuff in the right bins even though all the volunteers were off duty after a hard weekend. It all comes down to everyone wanting to do the right thing, but most people just not knowing or fully understanding how. That leads to dumping everything in the wrong place. Not to mention, there are very few places in the country where a landfill/recycling/compost option exists, never mind existing every few hundred feet.

Fortunately, the 80% redirection of waste out of landfills at Rothbury does result in a quantifiable cost savings over the alternative of sorting combined waste streams or simply placing it all in a landfill. Would make sense that those responsible for cutting costs would look to waste management as a very real place to save money.

What happened at Rothbury is a very big deal, and here's too all who pay attention to the result and implement similar waste strategies in their communities and businesses.

Peace,
Joe

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A great Big thank you to RVL7, The Spitfire Agency, Sarah and especially her great crew! I volunteered with the green team and felt so fortunate to be a part of the solution!

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I'm wearing my ROTHBURY Access Team t-shirt right now. It is so comfortable that I thought I would come out to the website to maybe order some more (clothing is mandatory at most of the places I go ;-), but I don't see where to get them. Please start your store soon! Thanks!

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thanks for being at the music festival this last weekend, it was awesome to get those stickers and pins