Music festivals such as Lollapalooza in Chicago and the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco are doing their best to ensure that these behemoths of show are leaving the environment green after the music is done. Lollapalooza, scheduled for August 1-3, and Treasure Island, slated for September 20-21, both are touting their efforts concerning environmental awareness.Lollapalooza, whose line up for this year will include Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Wilco, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails and more, will use biodiesel fuel in all its generators and light towers. As well, the festival will feature “Green Street,” which is designed to make your life more eco-friendly and is described on Lollapalooza’s website as such:

Every day it seems there’s a new “green” product on the market. But what do the chlorine-free-low-energy-hybrid-fuel-save-the-earth claims really mean, how much difference can these products really make, and how do we know which ones are the best choices? Green Street is here to help. From household cleaning products to cosmetics to cars, we are demystifying the product labels and explaining, in an easy-to-understand way, why eco-friendly products truly deserve the title.

Treasure Island’s festival, whose line-up last year included Modest Mouse, Spoon, Built to Spill, and more, will also use biodiesel, included a $1 service charge on all tickets to pay for renewable energy credits, and used zero-emission buses to transport all concert-goers to the venue. As well,

We will offset whatever emissions we cannot eliminate by purchasing renewable wind energy credits and investing in methane projects that create clean energy through our friends at Native Energy.

We can assume that the festival this year will do the same. You can by visiting the Lollapaooza website’s green section to learn more, or here for the Treasure Island Music Festival. Two other fests, Outside Lands in San Francisco and Coachella in Indio, are doing much the same.

And go to the shows if you’re in the area. Because, if I remember my math correctly, Radiohead + Wilco + Spoon + recycling = awesome. I think that’s pre-calc.