Everyone knows it’s cool to be environmentally friendly, or “eco-friendly” and “green” (whichever name you prefer to call ‘being good to the environment’) these days.
Sure, you ditch those plastic bags they throw all your groceries in at the supermarket and use your own reusable bag, separate paper and plastic from regular garbage, recycle bottles, reuse scrap paper, and even drive around with your hybrid car. But what’s better than going to a free concert, knowing that you’re actually saving the world by doing so?
Origins, a cosmetics brand, known for their organic and natural skin care products and makeup went over the top this month to promote environmentalism.
On March 21st, Origins at the metro-New York locations were handing out goodie bags filled with containers made from recycled products and two free concert tickets to see Train at their “Origins Rocks Earth Month” at Webster Hall on April 20th, in exchange for pledges to be greener.
Last Wednesday, Train rocked the house with a packed venue and gigs. To go further in being green, a tree was planted for each attendee. Pretty cool! Opening acts included singer and song-writer Nikki Jean and winners of “Origins Rocks Earth Month Green Artist Search” Treetop Flyers, hailing all the way from London. As soon as Train took the stage with a train-like entrance, the crowd went wild. They covered some of their hits from their past albums and from their recent album “Save Me, San Francisco”, such as the first hit off their self-titled and album, “Meet Virginia”, “Calling All Angels” and “Soul Sister”.
In the midst of the event, lead singer Patrick Monahan awed his fans by picking eight girls up to the stage, or as he calls them “Trainettes”, to have their 15 minutes of fame. Before the night ended, Monahan unexpectedly walked through the crowd, taking pictures and hugging fans while singing “Marry Me”. You can only imagine how every fangirl went gaga, right?
To close the concert, what better way is there to end the night than playing none other than their biggest hit “Drops of Jupiter”, which struck most with nostalgia? All in all, it’s probably one of those small concerts you will still remember in 10 years. Who wouldn’t the lead singer of a three-time Grammy Award winning band that soared through the crowd? I think we’re all intrigued!
But that wasn’t the only thing Origins did to promote environmentalism. This past Friday, people had the choice of choosing one of the two cleansers Origins gave when they traded in their empty bottles of skin care, in honor of Earth Day. Millions of cleanser-striving lovers awaited outside their local Origins counter to open like Black Friday for free
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