Solar panels on the roof help provide power for Davies Symphony Hall, home of the San Francisco Symphony. Photo by Davies Symphony Hall/Sean-Johnson.
In the May-June issue of Strings Magazine, Karen Peterson writes, “In February … 300-plus people traveled to … Los Angeles … to plot next steps in a historic mission: How the music industry—a monolith of power and creativity valued at $31 billion globally—could do its part in saving a warming planet through the organizing efforts of the newly founded Music Sustainability Alliance (MSA)…. The event was MSA’s first North American Climate Summit. Going forward, it will be held annually … Heather Noonan, vice president for advocacy at the League of American Orchestras (LAO), attended the MSA summit…. The LAO is not a stranger to issues of sustainability. It is deeply involved in global efforts to protect endangered woods, like African rosewood and pernambuco … The desire to do more for the climate was made abundantly clear when LAO held its first in-person conference as the U.S. emerged from [COVID] … Says Noonan, ‘The talk was about environmental sustainability.’ Shortly after, LAO partnered with UK-based Julie’s Bicycle, an influential nonprofit founded in 2007 to advise the music-and-arts world on sustainability and advocate for policy issues affecting climate resilience and justice.”
