- Photo: Anders Guld
About Green Footsteps
Despite a disappointing climate summit in 2009, the climate changes remain an inescapable reality and Roskilde Festival therefore puts extra focus on green initiatives with the campaign Green Footsteps.
The campaign encourages the festival guests to act with care for the environment by taking so-called green footsteps before, during and after the festival. The main idea behind the campaign is that one person’s small actions have great importance in relation to the environment in general.
During the festival we will present lots of fun and informative climate-friendly initiatives. For instance, you can stay at the climate-friendly camping area Green Bootcamp, get green inspiration at Climate Community, listen to music on the green Sustainable Stage and much more.
Keep an eye on the Green Footsteps campaign here and on Facebook.
If you have questions about the campaign, please send an e-mail to: greenfootsteps@roskilde-festival.dk.
Just like this year the audience could take green footsteps in the spring 2009 and qualify for a spot at a special camping area in the area Climate Community. 10 green footsteps were announced, and if you could prove that you had taken three, you got access to the Climate Community.
Also during the festival, we encouraged the audience to make climate-friendly choices. The campaign ran under the slogan 'Green Footsteps - Act for a Fair Climate Deal'. The aim was to show the politicians that the individual backs attitude up with the will to act in a climate-friendly manner. The audience took more than 46,000 green footsteps during the festival, and 16,000 signed that they demanded a fair climate deal at COP15 in December 2009. The signatures were delivered to the former Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard at the festival.
Another climate-friendly action at Roskilde Festival 2009 was the transformation of the stage Odeon to a so-called Sustainable Stage. This initiative showed that it is possible to cute considerably down on CO2 emissions without compromising the quality of the concert experience.
