How having green footsteps could get you a prime camping location for Roskilde 2009
Fancy yourself a bit of a greenie? In many ways, unless we’re hopping on and off of planes like taxis, backpackers tend to be green as far as public transport is concerned.
Not necessarily because of any great world-saving aspirations, but because, well, it’s way cheaper than any other more gas-guzzling kind of travel.
So, being more eco-friendly to secure a good camping spot at one of Europe’s biggest music festivals should be a walk in the park. Here’s the scoop:
In 2009 Roskilde Festival focuses on global climate changes. We call the campaign Green Footsteps. By leaving small, green footsteps at Roskilde Festival, we are all making a difference and are part of sending a signal to the rest of the world.We would like our audience to go along with the idea to make the best impact. Therefore, we will make it an advantage for all festival-goers to save the environment.
Make reservation at camping with your green footstep
We want to reward all those who make an environmental effort at home, on the way to and at Roskilde Festival. So, for instance, if you leave your car at home and instead come to the festival by public transport, you leave a green footstep. And if you remember to turn off the stand-by power at home while being at Roskilde Festival, you are also leaving a green footstep.Festival-goers with enough green footsteps can reserve a spot at the camping area. In that way, you have secured an advantageous spot – even before the camping area opens.
The festival-goers with the most green footsteps will be part of the festival’s Climate Community – a centrally located camping quarter primarily running on CO2-neutral energy. The energy will be generated thanks to your efforts, e.g. through intense pedalling on energy-producing bicycles and dance floors.
How these green footsteps are left and registered, we will tell you more about in a later newsmail. But we can already now reveal that the first green footstep can be left by supporting windmills in Malawi when buying your ticket.
Cool, just by buying a ticket you’re one step closer to that there Climate Community Camp!
Of course, if there’s no way on earth you’re going to be able to cough up the DK 1785 + that’s required for setting foot there in the first place, no amount of green stepping is going to help.
In which case, you might like to consider volunteering instead.
