Linkin Park, heroes of the environment? Well, not too surprising I guess. A few years ago, the band started their own non-profit called Music for Relief in order to channel some funds from the music community into environmental relief campaigns. They just played Live Earth of course, and now are about to head off on the Projekt Revolution tour. Linkin Park vocalist, Bennington, answered questions at a press conference last week, telling reporters that environmental education would be a focus of this tour.
“We’re going to try to plant over a million trees during this touring cycle,” Bennington said. “By raising awareness as much as possible, encouraging people to make simple changes in their life and showing them how by offering information at the tour, we can make a difference. If at the end of the day all we did was plant a bunch of trees, that’s cool with me.”
One dollar from every ticket sold for the Projekt Revolution tour will be donated by Linkin Park and Music for Relief to the American Forests’ Global ReLeaf program. In addition to this, Linkin Park will also be auctioning off premium packages on ebay and donating the entire proceeds to Music for Relief. From the band’s website:
Linkin Park is offering premium ticket packages for Projekt Revolution 2007! Tickets will be auctioned off on eBay to see Linkin Park and the amazing line-up of 10 other bands plus passes to a meet & greet with LP.
Visit the MFR auction page for more info & to bid on your tickets. 100% of the proceeds from these auctions go to Music For Relief.
Music For Relief is a registered 501© (3) non-profit organization established by the members of Linkin Park to provide relief to victims of natural disasters with an ongoing campaign to combat climate change in order to help prevent or decrease the strength of future natural disasters. For More information visit www.musicforrelief.org
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More info from the press conference on AOL news
Linkin Park Band Website
American Forests’ Global ReLeaf
Music for Relief - EXCELLENT website with info on different projects including the continuing efforts needed where Hurricane Katrina hit. 21 months later and people are still without homes!
Way to go Linkin Park! I had no idea, and I’m happy to have found this tidbit…
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