Norway has just staged what’s being called Europe’s greenest festival.

The Øya music festival ran its four stages on energy from a hydroelectric dam which uses a waterfall to make electricity. Staff working at the festival travelled distances using hydrogen and electric cars. Food provided at the festival was sourced locally and rubbish was sorted into 14 different recycling categories.

Visitors to the festival were encouraged to travel on public transport which is powered by sewage gas. Which means the toilets at the festival provided even more energy!

Because Norway is so far north it doesn’t get dark until very late in the summer

months. So there wouldn’t have been as great a need to turn on electric lights until later on in the day.