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Planet Home, inaugural environmental solutions showcase, expands lineup with world-renowned environmental scientist dr. Jonathan Foley, Musical artists Lany, The Mowgli’s and 24kgoldn, Indigenous environmental activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, And New York Times bestselling author and journalist Steven Kotler

PLANET HOME combines the best elements of a summit, concert, festival and marketplace, delivering an impactful and interactive experience for attendees and connecting a new generation of consumers with global thought leaders, eco-forward organizations and innovative companies.

While the United States seems unlikely to adopt a proactive environmental policy anytime soon (the Trump administration rolled back 83 environmental regulations, and Congress has yet to pass Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez' Green New Deal), the organization EQ is doing work on the cultural front to get citizens energized about sustainability and climate solutions.

$7 trillion dollars is the conservative estimate by the United Nations each year in our shortfall to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.)

It sounds like the beginning of joke: what do you get when you bring together a tech entrepreneur, a musician, an author and a concert promoter? In this case you get Creating Equilibrium: a three-day innovation forum which the founders call an insight incubator disguised as a conference, concert, and immersive festival.

Creating Equilibrium is a first-of-its-kind event focused on generating environmentally impactful innovations in a progressive space. This three-day uprising — a radical solutions forum, immersive laboratory, and music festival—features some of the top minds on the planet aimed at crafting and funding real-world solutions to dire ecological challenges. Fueled by some of the rockingest musicians around.

Creating Equilibrium is a three-day, solutions-focused, innovation forum—an insight incubator disguised as a conference, concert, and immersive festival.

Creating Equilibrium, a first-of-its-kind event focused on generating environmentally impactful innovations, is set to host its inaugural event August 25 - 27, 2017.

Secret Stash is anchored by Stefan Lessard from Dave Matthews Band and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, this iconic duo will be joined by a “secret stash” of musical friends, including Fun.’s Nate Ruess, Godsmack’s Sully Erna, saxophone player Michael Ghegan, and many more—all in one of California’s most majestic settings: the base of the KT22 mountain at Squaw Valley.

Creating Equilibrium has announced that Secret Stash, a band made up of Mike McCready, Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band), Nate Ruess (fun.), and Sully Erna (Godsmack) will be on stage for a concert at heir event at Lake Tahoe, August 26th.

Village Green Festival, a Creating Equilibrium event, is a free three-day concert, festival and environmental conference Friday, Aug. 25-Sunday, Aug. 27, at Squaw Valley.

Actors, astronauts, Michelin-starred chefs, musicians, technologists, environmental solutionists and many others unite at the multi-day event meant to inform, entertain and inspire action

EQ is a solutions-focused, innovation forum—an insight incubator experienced through a conference, concert, and immersive festival. The goals of the events and platform are to foster radical new approaches to solving critical global issues by building bridges between world-renowned technologists and world-saving environmentalists. We invite business, industry, and government into the discussion.

Technology is unavoidable, whether it’s the smartphone in your pocket, the computer on your desk, or the emails in your inbox. Unfortunately, all those gadgets and apps also have a pretty terrible impact on the environment.