Green Futures Field

Glastonbury Festival
June 24-27

Welcome to Glastonbury festival’s window on the future. It is the field where the newest of green ideas and initiatives are displayed for the first time. Helping to bring change for the better where we can all feel better for the change. This special year marks 20 years of Green Futures.

Help us by making the transition into to a post-carbon world, taking into account peak oil and climate change along the way. So enjoy the festival and leave no trace.

This year the field will have its share of solutions both usual and unusual so join in with us for a quick tour in words of what promises to be the most vitally important field you may ever visit.

Stop by the Groovy Movie the world’s first mobile renewably powered cinema . The Wishing Tree solar powered art experience with almost 100,000 wishes. Cyclean pedal powered laundrette; no longer the great unwashed , put new meaning into the term ‘ going for a spin’. Charge your phone by using one of the vast array charging bikes from Pedalability . Enjoy the toiletry experience of a lifetime with Comfy Crappers. Discovergreen technology for the future with Zia Solar, award-winning Solar Ovens and many other information stalls and displays inc the musical wind generator of Green Fuse.. Visit the CND action tent to learn non-violent direct action. Then there is Cals Lovely Garden, Floating Lotus, Feeling Healed, Coltek, Blue Solar, Rubbish DJs, Labyrinth, Green Fields Info and the Meadow Steiner School… oh plenty to do plenty to see

Canal Futures, Earth Sky Arts, Norwich Animal Aid, Tools For Self Reliance and introducing The Living Henge……

Supported campaigns : Travellers Aid Trust (on fire safety), War On Want , Norwich Animal Aid , and Burmese Democracy with the Little Burmese Tea Shop, LGBT . Somerset Transition Initiative

Trading Campaigns : RSPB, Sustrans, Globalise Resistance, The Bhopal Medical Campaign, Mooncup, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust , Liftshare, Radical Routes, Shelter Box , Tat for Tibet, Women’s Environmental Network, Guarana Company, Veggies Catering Campaign

Sunworshippers are back for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The group have registered this years festival as part of the official celebrations. As well as a portable Planetarium you can try their solar telescopes including a monster 16 inch telescope and enjoy talks from professional Astronomers and Physicists.

Why is the Sun less active than at any time since Napoleon conquered Europe and what does this mean for Climate Change? Come along and find out.

Around midnight come along to the Travelling Observatory – explore the stars, planets and galaxies visible in the Somerset skies.

Yummy organic vegetarian meals from Henry’s Beard and if you are feeling hungry for veggie breakfast try Cafe Sanctuaire

Extra ordinary green arts with the Paul Gittins Electric Shadow House, Creative Recycling and Earth Sky Arts, Sticky Exhibits and Paragon The Actionwork space the theatre, film and anti-bullying organisation.

The Power of the Pedal with the Rinky Dink Mobile

Permaculture – the Bristol permaculture group will be bringing along a newly-constructed yurt that they built themselves. It will provide a new venue for lively workshops in the Garden. Salads and herbs are ready to harvest from the roof of the £300 house – built here last year. Best of all you can wander in the lush green areas, spotting many interesting and unusual plant species. You will find out how to be in tune with nature and get food productivity from even a small space. Mike Feingold will be eulogising on the joys of growing your own sprouting seeds. Mmmm Munchy.

Renewable Live venues at Green Futures.

The Tadpole stage spawning much great talent brings you the most spectacular in upcoming music and entertainment. Along with well-established performers such as Sonja Kristina and Chris Difford the tadpole rocks.

Sample the Small World revolution hosted by Pony & team, this popular ambient venue specialises in magical music.

Join Tony Benn, Vince Cable, Caroline Lucas and Mr Michael Eavis himself in the Speakers Forum for relevant and pointed discussions and take the opportunity to voice your eco-opinions if you would like to.

Initiated by the legendary Dave Goodman and powered by Cyclometer The Mandala highlights the best of the fringe and the unusual; with resident band Pyramids of Snafu the weekend promises to be as bizarre as it is incredulous.

The Earth Lodge Complex

Storytellers hosted by Christine Willison provides a continuous round of enchantment and stories for young & old.

Avalon Archaeology with assistance from Glastonbury Abbey will be exploring the early medieval period.

Green Futures Field site