Power Of One

22nd June 2025

Here at Glastonbury Festival, we believe in the power of the individual to ignite hope, spark joy and trigger an avalanche of positive action. 

Our new Power Of One campaign for Glastonbury 2025 aims to harness this hope by highlighting the amplified impact of a few easy personal choices and their potential to bring about a better tomorrow. Small actions taken by one can – when echoed by others – can have an exponential effect powerful enough to drive societal change. All it takes is just one step in the right direction.

Here are a few examples of how some small changes we can make, ahead of the Festival and while we are here, can have a powerful ripple-inducing impact if all ticket-holders join in.

• By switching off your non-essential electrical appliances before the Festival, you can help save up to 1kg of CO2e across five days. This action, when echoed by every household at the Festival, could help save enough energy to power nearly 100 UK homes for an entire year.
• By refilling your reusable bottles once daily at the Festival, compared to buying single-use plastic bottles, together we can help save the CO2e equivalent of driving a diesel car 485,000 miles or around the world nearly 20 times!
• Based on average car use, by not driving over 5 days while at the Festival, you can individually avoid over 32kgs of CO2e; it would take three mature trees one year to absorb this amount of carbon.
• Remember your Worthy Pledge: treat each other with kindness and respect. 63% of UK adults say their mental health is improved when kindness is shown to them – and also when they are kind to others.
• If you can, switch your home energy tariff to renewable sources and drive investment into green energy shifting the UK away from fossil fuels and towards a more sustainable future.

Click here for information about our methodology.

For further inspiration please see some highlights from the many talks, workshops and events happening across the Festival which should inspire, inform and invigorate! 

Permaculture Garden
— Garden tours running Wednesday – Sunday at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.
The Festival’s permaculture garden has raised over 3,000 edible plants and herbs to create a stunning show garden with lettuces to lemon balm, fennel to feverfew and nasturtium to nettle. Join one of their garden tours to see how agriculture can seamlessly complement nature. Fresh ingredients from the allotment beds will make their way into the Garden’s café’s menu this year, with a big cook off on Sunday of what’s ripe and ready for harvesting.

Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire 
— Speakers Forum, Thursday 11am.
Recognising that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” author Adam Greenfield helps us find inspiration in collective moments from the Black Panthers, the Greek solidarity kitchens, Occupy Sandy and autonomous Rojava. 

Collective Optimism Through Individual Actions
— The Information, Silver Hayes; Thursday 3.45pm. 
The forward-thinking Information hosts One Day actor Ambika Mod and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, as they discuss the essence of individual empowerment.

Enchanting Glow Parade
— The Healing Fields; Thursday 11pm.
Find hope and feel connected at this enchanting parade. Taking place in honour of refugees and asylum seekers, this entrancing Diwali-inspired procession of luminescent lanterns sets off from the heart of The Green Fields as night falls, creating a mesmerising display of light and colour.

Finding Lights in a Dark Age 
— Speakers Forum; Friday 11am. 
Author and smallholder Chris Smaje takes inspiration from grassroots examples around the world and finds answers on how community, craft, currency and culture can help us adapt to our changing world.

Standing Up For Getting Along In A World That’s Being Pushed Apart
— The Information, Silver Hayes; Friday 12pm.
Broadcaster and football legend Gary Lineker and Andy Cato of Wildfarmed and Groove Armada, rally together and find unity and hope.

Outrage & Optimism Live 
— Croissant Neuf stage; Friday 5.30pm.
Join a star-studded line up of musicians, artists, business and civil society leaders including Tom Rivett-Carnac, Madame Gandhi, Adam Met, Greg Jackson, Sarah Mukherjee, Mya-Rose Craig in this inspiring reminder of the power of music to move hearts and minds and build a better tomorrow.

Snog, Marry, Avoid – How our Monkey Brains Respond to the Climate Crisis
— Speakers Forum; Saturday 11am.
How will we respond to the extreme climate in 2050? Will we cooperate, fight, pray, ignore or just party? Climate communication expert and author, George Marshall, will talk you through  your best options.

Saving the planet but not leaving the workers behind

— Left Field; Saturday 12pm.

The Left Field has long been Glastonbury’s place to, as they put it, “recharge your activism”, and the tent has panels and speakers from noon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This one features a panel including veteran Green MP Caroline Lucas, Port Talbot Steel Worker and campaigner Gracie Mae Bradley. 

Another England, Parliament And Protest 
— Speakers Forum; Saturday 4pm.
Guardian journalist John Harris interviews Caroline Lucas about delving deep into England’s literary history to sketch out alternative stories of who we are – stories that we can all embrace to build a greener, fairer future.

Wearing the Change
— The Information, Silver Hayes; Sunday 2.30pm.
Hosted by Vogue news editor, Anna Cafolla, this influential panel of fashion designers and campaigners – which includes Saeedah Haque, Priya Ahluwalia, Nicholas Daley, Venetia La Manna – as they talk about what you can do to help tackle waste in the fashion industry.