Pink Floyd brings Echoes to Kolar's arid fields

  • 11/04/2002

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

Kolar district in Karnataka is one of the only four places in the world (the other three being in Scotland, Mexico and Louisiana) where Pink Floyd's ambitions are going green. And ambition here means sponsoring the plantation of 7,600 trees including tamarind, mango and others. In a rare endeavour last year, the band after being approached by Dom Morrell - founder of UK-based NGO Future Forests - took the opportunity to help alleviate global warming. This, said Future Forest, could be done by offsetting the carbon generated from production of CDs of their recent collection Echoes, either by renewable energy or reforestation. And Floyd agreed for the latter.