Environmental issues                     

   The Danish Folk, Blues & Ragtime Guitar Festival is an

   event that tries to incorporate the concept of sustainability.

   This means that we try to goal set, act & inform about

   especially environmental issues pertaining to the Festival.

   Even an innocent, seemingly quiet and relaxing activity like

   that of playing the guitar do have an environmetal impact...

  Most guitars are made of

Guitars made out of wood

  wood that stems from

is an environmentally good

  forests all over the world.

alternative while guitars

  Some woods have become

whose bodies, tops etc. are

  very scarce, some forests

made out of carbon materials

  are run unsustainably and

are not. The environmental

  trees in a forest becomes

strain of carbon materials

  younger and younger...

are manyfolds that of wood!

From an environmentally point of view on a scale the

absolutely worst way of producing guitars are seen in

the large carbon based factories in Korea and China,

the abolutely best way is seen by small independent

luthiers who builds their guitars from reclaimed woods.

In between these two extremes we find most of current

guitar manufacturers existing today. Envrionmetally

friendly production means looking at the entire product

life cycle in order to minimize envrionmental impacts.

Such analyses are not currently found within this industry!

 v What can be done...?

 v What can be done II..?

Use of waterbased lacquers,

Shift of materials, shift of

sustainably grown trees,

company vision & mission

avoidance of use of abalone ,

to include sustinability,

use of locally grown woods,

transparency concerning

use af manual labour instead

company operations, use

of machinery, shift of cost

of certified products, adopting

focus from marketing to

environmentally certified

production, generating less

schemes like ISO 140001,

waste, use of recycled or

doing more with less, working

reclaimed materials & woods

closely with suppliers & others

....just to name a few!

...to name another few

Skarrildhus is certified accor-

Skarrildhus serves organic

ding to the "Green Key"

foods and offers an extensive

concept and its forest are

range of ecological beers.

certified according to the

Of course you can also buy

FCS. Furthermore its power

conventional food and drinks.

system is driven by its own

Skarrildhus also checks its

windmill...a good place to

food suppliers as well as

hold a green Festival...!

serving locally growns...