Paint it green: How Outside Lands became an eco-centric rock festival

VentureBeat writes, On any given day, Golden Gate Park is a shining example of more or less pristine green space in a densely packed urban area. Its trees tower, pulling up the blankets of fog from the ocean; its human-made bodies of water flow in intricate systems of streams, waterfalls, and lake chains; its wild blackberry bushes create a juicy bramble beside bike paths. Voles and foxes (and the occasional person) make their homes among the nasturium. Then, for three days in August, when 60,000+ hipsters pour into a handful of meadows, and thick and viscous as the fog itself, the park is transformed into a...

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