GREEN PROJECTS & INITIATIVES_____

Every year we connect at least one release to a project to rise funds for a specific green campaign doing a partnership with a no-profit organization. Find below our past initiatives.


2007

"1 Record = 1 Tree" connected to Danny Darko "We need to wake up! (died in your arms) "





in 2007 Oryx Music Group has donated to the no-profit org "Trees for the future" an amount necessary to plant a tree in a specific area of a developing country for every 2 downloads or 1 record sold starting from the 29th of October 2007 (release date of the vinyl).

Thanks to our donation, Trees For The Future has planted a grove of 1000 trees in Haiti in honor of Oryx Music, and issued us a certification to testify our help. Haiti has experienced severe problems of deforestation in the last decades; this has ignited a series of processes that lead a lot of local people to hunger and poverty (look here for more infos) and ultimately to the riots that recently overthrown the haitian goverment. Our little contribution not only helped a bit this people but contributed to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere

What does a tree has to do with global warming? Easy: A tree absorb CO2 through chlorophyllian photosynthesis, therefore the more the trees, the more the CO2 reduction. But what is happening nowadays? Just the opposite. Trees and forests, especially in developing countries, are beeing increasingly cutted down for many reasons.

Watch here what "Trees for the future" does.

Our governments are focusing on reducing fossil energy use and switch to renewables energies, that's great! But the battle should be fought on other fronts too. One is the "deforestation". The destruction of forests, not only increase CO2 in the air, but reduce earth biodiversity (exctinction of certain species), boost desertification processes (less food for everyone) and boost natural disasters damages (ex. flood).