Going on tour can be pretty costly for bands and musicians; not just financially, but environmentally too.

A two-week, 15-show tour racks up about 28 tonnes of carbon emissions; about the same amount as an average household would produce in a year.

That's what Cloud Control's Heidi Lenffer found out after researching the band's environmental impact before their tour two years ago.

"Our whole industry runs on flights, and as an artist touring for a living and being aware of climate change, it's a scary place to be," Heidi told Hack.

"I wanted to design a strategy that bands could take on tour and know that they were actively contributing to the solution which has been vetted by a whole range of climate scientists from around the world."

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Whatsapp Supplied: Ulrich Lenffer

Two years of research, aided by climate scientists across Australia and genuine desire to make a positive environmental change, led Heidi to create the FEAT. (Future Energy Artists) initiative.

FEAT. is a platform for artists to invest in renewable energy, via a managed investment fund. It's a "world-first initiative for artists to take ownership over accelerating our clean energy future at a critical time in human history".

Around 25 bands have already invested in FEAT., including Jack River, Midnight Oil, Vance Joy and Peking Duk.

The money invested already is being put to good use building Brigalow: an 80-hectare solar farm in Queensland.

How does it work?

FEAT. is a partnership with superannuation firm Future Super, Australia's first fossil-fuel free super fund.

Artists can choose to invest a minimum of $5 or as much as $500,000 into the Future Renewables Fund, which invests the money into solar farms or loans it to build infrastructure for renewable energy.

Heidi says the "easiest way to explain it is we have an ownership stake".

"So we own units in the fund," she said.

"We set minimums in order to make it as accessible as possible, but we're not encouraging people to only invest $5, because we want to make the impact as big as possible.

"We also want this to not look like it's exclusively a wealthy band operation, because it's not."

Bands can either invest a one-off lump sum into the fund, or they can give a percentage of their tour income. So if they want to invest five per cent of their tour profits, for example, they hand that over to FEAT. at the end of the tour.

The Bringalow solar farm, which is being partially funded by FEAT., is estimated to power about 11,300 homes each year over its 30 year lifecycle.

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Whatsapp Brigalow solar farm used to be a sorghum grain farm.

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Whatsapp Heidi Lenffer travelled to the Brigalow solar farm earlier this year.

The energy produced from solar farms is sold to energy providers, and the annual profits are then distributed to the artists who invested.

FEAT. says the returns on the investment in Brigalow will be about five per cent.

"We made sure this was an attractive way for artists to raise money on their tours," Heidi said.

Who can invest?

Currently, only those in the music industry can invest in FEAT., but the team are working on getting the public involved.

"We're fully set up to take industry applications so we're just going public with that, to get as many industry players involved," Heidi said.

"So record labels, music publishers, everyone and anyone so we can really galvanise the movement within our sector."

Heidi says she wants FEAT. to take off in Australia before taking it overseas.

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"My heart is here in Australia and I really want to turn around the stalemate in terms of climate action.

"I will put all of my energy into making this as big as it can be in Australia and capturing as much of the music industry as we can.

Midnight Oil frontman and environmental campaigner Peter Garrett said FEAT. is a "stunning, much needed initiative".

"At last a project that takes the great passion many artists have for a healthy world powered by renewable energy, and makes it doable," he said.

FEAT. officially launches on Wednesday June 5, coinciding with World Environment Day.

"The environmental movement often lacks positive stories and positive routes to action," Heidi said.