The intrepid investigators at The Smoking Gun have turned up a tour rider for Sheryl Crow, who's playing a sold-out show at the Tennessee Theatre on Wednesday, Aug. 18.
It's a revealing document. The rider has a detailed green section that requires 19 backstage recycling bins, local and organic produce, reusable dishware when possible (recyclable or biodegradable dinnerware when it's not), locally sourced spring water, recycling containers for the audience, and a helpful list of suggestions for making a greener venue (energy-efficient lightbulbs, no-idling policies for service vehicles, eco-friendly cleaning products and recycled paper products, and energy credit programs).
Which is all very good. It's the kind of stuff all of us should be doing at home and at work. But most of the rest of us don't travel, as TSG says Crow's tour does, in a pair of 45-foot buses and two tractor trailers. That recycled TP probably doesn't count for much after the impact of those behemoths is calculated.
It's a revealing document. The rider has a detailed green section that requires 19 backstage recycling bins, local and organic produce, reusable dishware when possible (recyclable or biodegradable dinnerware when it's not), locally sourced spring water, recycling containers for the audience, and a helpful list of suggestions for making a greener venue (energy-efficient lightbulbs, no-idling policies for service vehicles, eco-friendly cleaning products and recycled paper products, and energy credit programs).
Which is all very good. It's the kind of stuff all of us should be doing at home and at work. But most of the rest of us don't travel, as TSG says Crow's tour does, in a pair of 45-foot buses and two tractor trailers. That recycled TP probably doesn't count for much after the impact of those behemoths is calculated.
No idling policy? Her buses and semis idled all day behind the Tennessee Theater.