SOLAR STAGING AND SOUND
Provided by Alternative Power Productions, the V Elements main stage will be completely powered by alternative and solar energy including all of the sound and lighting. Alternative Power Productions has built the largest solar powered hybrid stage in the country. The stage is a Stageline SL250 integrating a 4.83-kilowatt (4830 watts) solar array, which supplies sunlight to (2) 800 amp batteries totaling 1600 amps of storage. The array powers (4) Outback Systems Inverters pumping 120 amps of power at 120Volts. The stage also houses a biodiesel generator equipped with an auto start feature making this stage 100% self-contained. Namaste and Rock on!
I LOVE MY BEACH
Thanks to our sponsor Surfrider Foundation San Diego County Chapter, V Elements aims to be single-use plastic free. Participants are encouraged to bring their own reusable water bottles and fill up at numerous water stations. Forget your water bottle? Not to worry. Buy a Surfrider Foundation water bottle onsite for only $5 and support their mission to protect our oceans, waves and beaches!
CARBON OFFSETTING
V Elements is teaming up with Carbonfund.org to offset our carbon footprint. All tickets purchased for V Elements will include renewable energy credits, off-setting ticket buyers’ estimated travel emissions to and from the event. Other unique sustainable offerings will include paperless marketing, bike valet, shuttle points and more.
TRANSPORTATION
We want to encourage sustainability all the way to, through, and from V Elements Festival. We will be offering a free bike valet for those of you who are able to ride to the venue. We will also be helping to coordinate rideshares. Tune in to our Facebook page and look out for rideshare forums in the coming weeks! If you have any other ideas of how to sustainably get to and from the event, we'd love to hear them!
WASTE MGMT
· Maximize management and conservation of resources
· Reduce "waste"-related greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming
· Educate and persuade citizens, businesses, and governments in the San Diego County region to adopt a zero-waste philosophy
· Provide ideas and guidance through the process of making and implementing Zero Waste plans in our region
It is possible to eliminate the detritus of our lives and its negative impact on our planet and our future. We can do this by recovering the valuable commodities we currently throw away, developing markets and technology for as much of it as possible, and finding alternatives that allow us to eliminate what is not reusable.
We are really excited to announce our partnership with Zero Waste San Diego to help balance the five elements! We will work hand in hand with Zero Waste to create a thorough V Elements waste management program aiming for 100% waste diversion. Zero Waste San Diego’s mission is to create, promote and implement programs that:
