Green Listening and how green vinyl records is revolutionising the vinyl business
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Special edition: Today, we reflect on the changes in the music industry and how we listen to music, from live concerts to streaming - via vinyl, CD, and download.  And we think about the impact of our choices, the impact on the environment and what medium and behaviour fits best to your listening experience.  Further, we visit Green Vinyl Records in the south of the Netherlands at their factory; we hear the sounds of production of a revolutionary approach to making the vinyl record business a green business.  And learn from them why their approach to producing vinyl records - that is, chemically not vinyl anymore - is 90% less energy-consuming than the traditional way of pressing vinyl.  That is also the reason why the BBC, ZDF, NOS, The Guardian and The Power of Music Thinking :-) visited the factory in the last month. Watch out when you see GVR on the sleeve of your next vinyl record. Links:  Green Vinyl Records on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenvinylrecords/ Harm Theunisse on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harm-theunisse-5123555/ Setting the record straight: is streaming greener than vinyl? https://theecologist.org/2018/mar/16/setting-record-straight-streaming-greener-vinyl  
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