Cherry Bar, legendary late night rock’n’roll bar in AC/DC Lane Melbourne, has cemented its leadership status by becoming Australia’s first carbon-neutral live music venue in Australia.
The owners worked closely with TREECREDS – the Melbourne-based company who counts Tallarook’s Boogie Festival and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl as clients – providing utility bills, waste volume and collection information as well as having all refrigerants assessed and supplying data regarding all staff travel.
James Young, Cherry Bar co-owner reckons, “Australia needs leadership and our political parties refuse to show any, so it’s up to Cherry, a dirty little street rock’n’roll bar, to show the way,” explaining that the venue had offset “all operational emissions of the via the purchase of avoided-deforestation carbon credits.”
Cherry’s conscience was killing them according to Young: “Future generations will study our generation as the most greedy and selfish large-scale environmental vandals of all time. Personally, I can’t live with that guilt.”
It’s not just Cherry and their punters who can get warm and fuzzy over doing their bit for the globe. “Artists who play at Cherry Bar, and that’s over 500 local bands per year, can perform with the confidence that they’re not leaving a carbon footprint on the Cherry stage, because we are Australia’s first carbon-neutral live music venue.”
