Maggie Baird has won an inaugural Bobby Weir Sustainability Award.
The gongs were given out on Tuesday at the Music Sustainability Summit in Los Angeles.
Mum to Billie Eilish and Finneas, Baird is the founder of Support + Feed and a longtime advocate for plant-based solutions, who has helped reshape sustainability across major global music tours.
Baird cited her kids while accepting the award, saying, “First of all, I’ll thank my children, because I’ve always cared about the planet desperately, my whole life, and it’s crazy to me that I found myself in this industry that I had always loved so much, and able to do the thing I had always wanted to do the most, which was try to make environmental change.
“I’m just grateful to my children for what they do and how they stick their necks out and how they say things in public and take risks,” Baird continued. “I’m very proud of them.
The first award of the night went to Manchester venue Co-op Live for its work in creating a best-in-class sustainable venue. The award was accepted by the venue’s sustainability and community director, Sara Tomkins.
“We are committed to the planet, and all we are trying to do is to show what can be done and to continually do it better to have a positive legacy on the planet,” Tomkins shared in her speech.
Named in honour of the late Grateful Dead co-founder and created in partnership with his family, the awards recognise those whose work integrating sustainability into the music industry has made a significant impact.
