Generators will partly run on bio-diesel, solar power will be used, while rangers have set up a wildlife and bee haven near the site using funds from festival-goers. The Let It Be campaign is named after one of Sir Paul's Beatles songs and aims to help dwindling bee populations.
Sir Paul said: "I'm glad that winning the Greener Festival Award last year has helped to encourage them to take further action in 2010. It is fantastic for artists like myself to see festival organisers investing in ways to reduce their C02 emissions and taking responsibility for the environment. Not only will this approach encourage others in the music industry to look at best-practice but it will also highlight to audiences that times are changing and we all have to do our bit at events such as these as well as at home."
"I think any festival would struggle to be 100% green," Lois Prior, the festival's carbon auditor told the BBC. "You're talking about tens of thousands of people coming into one place, so there's bound to be an impact on the local infrastructure and local resources. The Isle of Wight festival are making strides to address those issues without taking away from the festival itself."
World Cup Fever - Luciano Pavarotti's version of Nessun Dorma is being re-released - 20 years after it was the BBC's theme music for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The piece, taken from Puccini's opera Turandot, reached number two in the UK pop charts in June of that year. It will compete against Dizzee Rascal and James Corden's version of Tears For Fears' Shout - also released this week to coincide with this year's World Cup which kicks off on Friday in South Africa.
Pavarotti died in September 2007 at the age of 71. Veteran sports broadcaster Des Lynam said Nessun Dorma would be remembered as "probably the outstanding theme of any major televised sporting event ever".
Cancellations - Influential US rock group Pixies have cancelled their first performance in Israel, blaming "events beyond our control". The group did not specify why they were pulling out of the show, which was due to take place in Tel Aviv on 9 June. However, organisers said the decision was linked to Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last week. The band, whose albums include Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, were due to be headliners at the Pic.Nic festival. Other acts - including UK band Gorillaz Sound System - have also withdrawn from the event.
Last month, Elvis Costello pulled out of two gigs in Israel saying that his appearance there could have been "interpreted as a political act". The musician said his decision was "a matter of instinct and conscience" and "too grave and complex" to be addressed at a concert.
(Jim Evans)
