Festivalgoers walk past an art installation created from scrap lumber at the Lightning in a Bottle festival at the Lake Skinner Recreation Area in Winchester on Saturday, July 13, 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
For a festival so focused on being fun and free, one thing that is taken very seriously at Lightning in a Bottle, which made its Riverside County debut at the Lake Skinner Recreation Area in Winchester this weekend, is sustainability.
Even before you get to the festival grounds, on the long, winding road through the Lake Skinner recreation area, The DoLaB posted repeated signs about packing up camp and taking trash with you.
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On the festival grounds, there are clearly labeled bins for recycling, landfill and compost.
There are stations for water set up throughout the festival, denoted by blue drops rising into the sky. You’re encouraged to refill.
A number of the stage markings and shaded areas have been recycled. A number of them have been part of The Do LaB area at past years of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Inside the festival program there is even a little bit about Lake Skinner with a note to the festivalgoers.
“Let’s show Riverside County how respectful we are and leave it better than we found it.”
Leaving it better than you found it is the ethos of the festival in general.