We Love Green

Repressed hippie tendencies? All the flower power you'll ever need is chilled and waiting at the We Love Green music festival, where even the popped corks are organic. It's a bucolic celebration of music and nature, and the audience is positively expected to dance barefoot in the grass, wear coronets of flowers and to eat nothing but vegetables for three days. The love of green extends beyond aesthetics, though: the temporary stage is lit by solar and wind power, all the better to host big name artists like Norah Jones, Beirut, Camille, Django Django, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and James Blake. Emerging talents are also given plenty of room: Klaxons, Breakbot, Electric Guest, Kindness and La Femme will all be at the party.

The organisers of this 'disposable' festival make every aspect of the event as eco-friendly as possible – even the dustbins themselves are recyclable, verdant artworks populate the site, and the event is hosted in 100% natural structures – look out for Sébastien Preschoux's fibre-walled huts, Amélie Legrand's sculptures and Antoine Daniel's furniture.

NGOs like the WWF, Good Planet and Emmaüs man (recyclable) stands, solar panels powering their batteries to show films on biodiversity, play games, and hold children's play areas. The music acts themselves are sheltered in the prototype of a nomadic pavilion, created specially for the festival by Jacques Ferrier, who designed France's pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Naturally, all sandwiches, drinks, picnic hampers and produce available to taste onsite are 100% organic.

Friday 14-Sunday 16 September, Parc de Bagatelle, Bois de Boulogne
Métro: Porte d'Auteuil

3 day pass €99
1 day pass €44

For the full programme and to buy tickets, click here.