2005
Three Pin Records & Garrett Brennan’s Keep It Simple Tour
Launched CLIF GreenNotes with Garrett Brennan by launching a carbon neutral status for his “Little Cottonwood” album.
2006
Tour Greening
Partnered with Ben Kweller, Michael Franti, John Butler Trio, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, The Duhks to reduce the environmental footprint of their tours,
2008
Protect The Places We Play: Benefit Album
Released the Protect The Places We Play benefit album with Martin Sexton, the John Butler Trio, Michael Franti, Brett Dennen, Missy Higgins, Gomez, Mason Jennings and more. Every album purchase supported Leave No Trace, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, and the National Environmental Education Foundation.
2008
Protect The Places We Play: Missy Higgins performance
Volunteers who participated in a day of environmental action at Revere Beach in Massachusetts were invited to a private concert by Missy Higgins.
2009
Parkwide Cleanup and Concert Event: Yosemite National Park
After a highly successful first year cleanup event, we hosted another event at Yosemite National Park. Volunteers were invited to a private concert in the park with Josh Ritter, Missy Higgins and Sam Roberts Band.
2013
CLIF GreenNotes Grant: The Stone Foxes
Organized a tour of homeless shelters where The Stone Foxes performed “Goodnight Moon” with residents. The tour culminated in a music video featuring musicians from 11 different organizations across 9 states.
2015
SXSW Showcase
Partnered with Noisetrade to host a 3-day showcase with 33 bands like Jukebox The Ghost, Colony House, Magic Giant, Gill Landry, Doomtree and The Family Crest.
2015
CLIF GreenNotes Grant: Toad The Wet Sprocket
Activated Toad The Wet Sprocket’s fans with environmental nonprofits on their U.S. tour.
2016
Pitchfork Greening & Virtual EcoVillage
Partnered with Pitchfork Music Festival to introduce hydration stations to encourage fans to use reusable water bottles, set up valet bike parking, and provided fans upcycled vinyl records from GreenNotes artists in the Re-Sound Lounge. We also launched a Virtual EcoVillage to highlight 16 nonprofit organizations working towards environmental protection and youth empowerment,
2017
CLIF GreenNotes Grant: Marian Hill
Created a campaign with Marian Hill to help fans better understand climate change facts with The Nature Conservancy. By sharing your own video about #ClimateChangeFacts, you were entered to meet & greet the band or win concert tickets.
2018
Frontside Sessions: Magic Giant, Ron Pope, and OK Go
Launched a music series to make environmental change a reality at the voting booth. We asked fans to take action with Protect Our Winters, Breathe Utah, and Rock The Vote in order to gain access to an exclusive concert experience inside of a ski lift tram above the slopes in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2019
Source2Sea: Ending Plastic Pollution from Riverways to Oceans
Raised over $8,000 at Source2Sea, a benefit concert for Surfrider Foundation and Living Lands & Waters. These non-profits are actively working to clean our rivers, waterways, and oceans from single-use plastics.
2020
Playing From Home: 924 Gilman
Partnered with 924 Gilman to produce a livestream music festival to prevent the legendary DIY venue from closing. Over $30k was crowdfunded during the event.
2006
Tour Greening for Gomez and Hot Buttered Rum
“We’re really excited to have the opportunity to partner with Clif Bar to bring this program to life,” says Gomez vocalist Tom Gray. “It’s 50 percent about what we’re doing and 50 percent about encouraging our fans to consider their own environmental footprint and to take small steps to reduce it. It’s one thing for a band to do something it is another for a fan to say, ‘Yeah, I want to know how I can do something.’”
2006
Xavier Rudd “Better People” Campaign and Tour Greening
Greened Xavier Rudd’s U.S. tour and launched the Better People Campaign, We also profiled people doing good and invited fans to take environmental action at the concerts.
2008
Protect The Places We Play: Josh Ritter performance
Volunteers who participated in a day of environmental action at Yosemite National Park were invited to a private concert performance by Josh Ritter.
2008
Protect The Places We Play: Ben Kweller performance
Volunteers who participated in a day of environmental action at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas in were invited to a private concert in the park with Ben Kweller.
2013
CLIF GreenNotes Grant: Dessa
2014
CLIF GreenNotes Grant: Astronautalis
Hosted a benefit concert with Astronautalis. at The Food Group, a non-profit organization creating healthy food access in Minnesota.
2015
CLIF GreenNotes Grant: SOJA
Partnered with SOJA to reduce plastic, offset their emissions, engage fans and rethink what it means to green a tour. We captured their sustainable efforts on the road. The band ended up saving over 5,000 single-use water bottles from the landfill by using reusables.
2016
CLIF GreenNotes Grant: River Whyless
Developed a music video for the River Whyless song, Hold Me To Ya.” The video was used to raise funds for the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge.
2017
Air+Style Festival Greening
Developed a greening strategies for Air+Styles festival’s unique setting and needs for artificial snow, restored 700,000 gallons of freshwater and organized an offset for 500,000 gallons of water.
2017
TreePeople Event with Shaun White
Planted trees and supported trail maintenance at the Coldwater Canyon Park in Los Angeles, CA with volunteers who were recruited Air+Style Festival.
2017
Firefly Festival Greening
Activated attendees with a photobooth that simulated the effects of a ‘business-as-usual’ climate change scenario on festival grounds, reduced the environmental footprint of the festival, arranged for 9,500 pounds of food to be donated to a local food bank.
2019
Tour Greening: Louis The Child, SOJA, Nahko & Medicine for the People and 5 U.S. artist Tours
Prevented 155,806 single-use water bottles from entering the waste stream by providing 8 U.S. tours reusables . These bands are SOJA, Magic Giant, Slenderbodies, FKJ, Naked Giants, Nahko & Medicine for the People, The Faint, and Louis The Child.
2020
Playing From Home: Julien Baker, Nahko, Trevor Hall, Austin of Magic Giant
Produced a livestream music series to raise funds for those impacted negatively by COVID-19 in the music industry. In total, $18k was raised for MusicCares and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and over 30,000 fans tuned in.