Imagine a music festival where no plastic is used, stages are crafted from recycled materials, and every sip comes from a steel tumbler. This is Echoes of Earth, Bengaluru’s pioneering green music festival, founded in 2016 by Roshan Netalkar. What started as a vision to combine music and sustainability has grown into a movement, inspiring thousands to rethink entertainment’s environmental impact.

Each year, the festival showcases spectacular stages made from scrap, e-waste, and salvaged wood, designed around nature-themed concepts—from rhinos to mycelium networks. Attendees actively participate in waste segregation, refill steel cups at RO stations, and experience plastic-free festivities. Solar power provides 20% of the festival’s energy, with plans to expand renewables further.

Echoes of Earth also empowers communities: over 1,200 frontline workers are employed annually, 66% of them women, many seeing incomes rise sixfold. Beyond the two-day festival, The Greener Side initiative runs workshops, nature walks, and sustainability programs reaching 52,000+ people annually, turning awareness into action.

By merging music, art, and ecological responsibility, Echoes of Earth proves large-scale entertainment can be vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable, shaping the future of festivals in India and beyond.