BLOND:ISH

Vivie-Ann Bakos, the producer and DJ known as BLOND:ISH, knows her way around festivals, having played Burning Man and Coachella. And she’s noticed just how much plastic goes to waste—cups, straws, water bottles are all single-use items and typically not recycled. The lockdown of 2020 prevented over 570 million pounds of them from being thrown out....

From saving the environment to organizing in the streets, beat-making activists prove there’s no limit to what creative minds can achieve when the stakes are high.