The troubling environmental issues our planet faces are more prevalent than ever, but so are a growing number of organizations that are doing their part to drive positive change through community, awareness, and action. Through the intersection of music and environmental advocacy, these organizations are making major waves through their efforts. With Earth Day coming in hot (pun definitely intended), now is as good a time as any to do your part. Without further ado, here are some badass organizations you can support right now that merge music and environmental activism for a better tomorrow. 🌱
Eco-Friendly Music Organizations That Are Making a Difference
REVERB 
Founded in 2004 by environmentalist Lauren Sullivan and her musician husband, Adam Gardner of Guster, REVERB is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering millions of individuals to take action toward a better future for people and the planet. They partner with musicians, festivals, and venues to green their concert events while engaging fans face-to-face at shows to take environmental and social action. In addition, they create and execute comprehensive programs to reduce concert and tour footprints, from eliminating single-use water bottles to coordinating local farm food to fueling sustainable biodiesel in tour buses to composting and donating food waste, and so much more.
Since its inception, REVERB has implemented amazing campaigns like the Music Decarbonization Project, Music Climate Revolution, #RockNRefill, and many more projects that have made significant progress in eliminating single-use bottles, putting an end to music’s carbon pollution, and so much more.
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Sustain
Sustain is a non-profit music organization that creates partnerships between the music industry and environmental organizations by identifying opportunities to connect musicians and nature organizations, and increase awareness about the work of both. Sustain also promotes environmentally sound practices across all aspects of the music industry, especially through their two main projects: Songscapes and Trail Sessions.
Through these efforts, Sustain works to:
- Foster public support for environmental causes through music
- Link conservation organizations with musicians to improve exposure for both.
- Support more inclusive public lands
- Develop new audiences for bands and public lands
- Create connections between musicians and public lands
- and so much more…
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BYOBottle
The Sustainable Concerts Working Group (SCWG) is a collaboration of music industry leaders and environmental advocates who believe in an environmentally responsible and sustainably driven music community. They started the BYOBottle Campaign, which encourages artists, venues, festivals, and fans to reduce plastic pollution in the music industry by promoting reusable water bottles and water refill stations both backstage and front of house at music events.
Through this campaign, artists are also encouraged to travel with reusable water bottles and include language in their rider asking venues to provide water refill options backstage, while venues, festivals, and promoters commit to providing water refill stations for artists and fans. As a fan, you can also make the BYOBottle commitment and show your support of the music industry’s efforts to reduce single-use plastic waste right here.
Bye Bye Plastic Foundation
Dreamed up and led by Vivie-Ann aka BLOND:ISH as a grassroots movement, Bye Bye Plastic is a team of 8 eco warriors on track to wipe out single-use plastic in the music industry. They’ve inspired thousands of DJs and event promoters to back the initiative since launching in 2018, through the #PlasticFreeParty movement and Eco Riders.
Launched as an official foundation in January 2020, they’ve partnered and consulted with industry giants like International Music Summit (IMS) & SXM Festival. They’ve also led sustainability panels at ADE Green, IMS, Brighton Music Conference, and beyond, while turning heads and gaining coverage from media including BBC Newsbeat, GRAMMY, BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire, The Line Of Best Fit, 
Clash, Rolling Stone, Mixmag, DWTV (Germany). Whether you’re an artist, industry professional, brand, or corporation, you can get involved and support the cause. From downloading their Eco-Rider, making a donation, or volunteering at one of their events, there’s a lot you can do to get involved.
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A Greener Future
A Greener Future is a not-for-profit company committed to helping events, festivals, and venues around the world become more sustainable and reduce environmental impacts through certification, training, expertise, and facilitating the exchange of best practices. Their team helps organizations and individuals set and achieve their sustainability goals. analyzing existing actions and operations, developing and implementing strategies, recommending sustainable solutions, and providing tools and expertise for decision making and delivery. Specifically, they collaborate with these events to prevent further pollution, waste, emissions, and biodiversity loss, and so much more.
Music Climate Pact
The Music Climate Pact is a global platform, initiated by the UK’s Association of Independent Music (AIM) and in collaboration with the UK record labels association, the BPI, as a response to COP26 and the urgent call for collective action to combat the climate crisis. Given their unparalleled reach, they have a unique opportunity to help artists and audiences engage with climate issues. The Pact they created sets out a series of high-level commitments that serve as a declaration of intent for the global music sector. It brings together key actors (the independent music community, major music groups, and others) to align as a sector and address our biggest environmental impacts in an efficient and collaborative way.
They believe that through collective action and a unified voice, the music industry will be best-placed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mitigate our contribution to global climate change, and ignite broader societal action on the climate crisis.
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Artists Project Earth
Through music and the arts, Artists Project Earth aims to achieve permanent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to levels that minimise further degradation of ecological systems and human livelihood. APE recruits internationally known musicians and artists through albums, concerts, art exhibitions, and art-related projects to raise awareness of climate change and funds for campaigns and disaster relief.
To date, they have funded over 400 campaigns, events, actions, and educational projects globally, as well as disaster relief. APE has also supported passionate individuals and organizations who raise awareness and inspire change in the fields of climate justice, global warming, fossil fuels, reforestation, agroforestry, wildlife protection, reef conservation, marine plastic pollution, seed projects, wetlands restoration, and more. Not only that, they’ve produced music with some of the biggest international artists in the game to raise money for their cause, including Beyoncé, Bob Dylan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, and many others.
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Sound Future
Founded by music and climate industry pros, Sound Future is on a mission to turn live events into a force for good when it comes to the planet. The nonprofit helps artists, venues, and promoters reduce their environmental impact without sacrificing the experience. They offer tools like a climate-conscious vendor directory (so you can actually find sustainable catering, waste services, and more), and they work behind the scenes to track event emissions and recommend solutions that align with both climate goals and business needs.
One of their standout projects, the Surf & Turf Program, funnels funding from events into restoring ecosystems like reefs, wetlands, and grasslands, turning concert revenue into real-world climate action. With folks like Wesley Schultz from The Lumineers on the board, they’re combining star power with smart strategy to push the industry forward.
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Musicians for Sustainability
Musicians for Sustainability is a grassroots initiative that helps artists and venues make their live events more eco-friendly. Through a simple pledge, musicians encourage venues to adopt at least three out of six sustainable practices, such as using renewable energy, eliminating single-use plastics, offering reusable cups, and encouraging low-carbon travel. Venues are then certified with a “leaf” rating based on how many sustainable actions they’ve implemented, ranging from 1 to 4 leaves. This system makes it easy for fans and artists to find and support eco-conscious venues. By signing the pledge, artists and venues work together to make sustainability a seamless part of the live music experience.
Rock The Ocean
Based in Fort Lauderdale, Rock the Ocean combines music and marine conservation to raise awareness about the issues affecting our oceans. Best known for producing the annual Tortuga Music Festival, they use the event as a platform to spotlight sustainability and connect fans with ocean advocacy efforts through their interactive Conservation Village on-site.
Beyond the festival, the foundation supports ocean-focused scientific research, education, and conservation programs around five key areas: sharks, sea turtles, marine mammals, coral reefs, and marine habitats. Their year-round work includes community cleanups, sea oat planting, and sustainability initiatives like banning single-use plastics and promoting waste diversion. Since launching, they’ve raised over $4 million and partnered with more than 100 ocean conservation organizations worldwide.
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