Maybe it isn’t a glamorous as Los Angeles’s Hollywood Bowl but San
Francisco’s Panhandle Bandshell works not just as an entertainment
venue but one with sustainable origins. The Bandshell materials come
from a what’s what of the 3Rs (Recycle, Reclaim, Reuse) and create not
only a funky quality to the structure but reduce the carbon footprint.
The bandshell uses reclaimed steel (including 65 mid-size sedan hoods)
which not only took some ugly cars off the road but saved the
equivalent of one person’s carbon emissions for an entire year (seven
and one-half tons of carbon dioxide).
The Black Rock Arts Foundation also used reclaimed wood and by doing
so allowed 7.4 Douglas fir trees 90 foot trees to remain upright instead
of at a lumber mill. The plastic bottle wall used represents the
volume of bottled water consumed in San Francisco every 11 minutes.
And those green arch circuit boards symbolize the volume of electronic
waste landfilled in the U.S. every two seconds.
Eat your heart out Pavarotti.
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