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Greenfest
Green
Festival
Greenfest
is about full community participation in creative
energy, new ideas and working together to win
the race against climate change. Get into Greenfest!
An
emerging green generation may be our first psychographic
generation, a grouping of like minds from many
ages and origins, committed to finding a new consensus
that protects diversity of life on earth.
The
knowing of this feeling however, is most unmistakable
and uncompromised in the art and music of younger
people. Greenfest provides a stage for this fresh
energy to engage all of us, around inspired consumer
products for a greener future and respected speakers
taking a fresh approach.
Greenfest
is free, outdoors, participation based and experimentally
presents tomorrow’s leaders to share the
stage today. It’s a formula for resonance
between different elements of the community and
by just turning up you will have taken action
for a greener world.
The
festival also meets current best practices in
green event management through:
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Use of green power
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Recycling and waste management
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Green printing
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Fair trade uniforms
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Minimizing production beyond function
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Carbon neutral event
Greenfest
Pty Ltd (ACN 125 745 913) is a privately owned
independent Australian business with a constitution
for non-profit. No exhibitor or sponsor owns shares
in Greenfest Pty Ltd.
Greenfest,
a place for fresh energy! (Credit:
Greenfest)
Websites
Greenfest
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MySpace
Media
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Media
Multimedia
Greenfest
news story - Channel Seven News Brisbane
Greenfest
- Channel Seven News Brisbane - YouTube
Media
Greenfest
drives green agenda - The Courier-Mail
Grassroots
fresh energy to win the race against climate change
Greenfest
letter from Jane Goodall
Greenfest,
a place for fresh energy! - OurBrisbane.com
Very
Unique Existence - Rave Magazine
Greenfest
comes to Brisbane - Greenbang
News
Articles
Greenfest
drives green agenda, By Mark Hinchliffe - 13th
May 2008
(Credit:
The Courier-Mail)
Two
years ago, successful marketing director Colman
Ridge opted out of the corporate world, sold his
$90,000 Audi TT and is now organising Brisbane's
first Greenfest.
Ridge,
42, of Brisbane, has pumped $250,000 of his own
money into the October 10-12 festival in the Southbank
forecourt.
"In
the area I worked you come across new ideas constantly,"
he said.
"There
are a lot of festivals going on with a bit of
a green emphasis, but I have brought all those
green ideas together with a cultural element in
the one show."
Greenfest
will be free to the public and a non-profit venture
with funds raised for habitat protection and green
education projects.
It
will feature displays of green products, jobs,
foods, power, habits and lifestyles, including
practical exhibitions to encourage greener consumer
preferences.
There
will also be a grassroots culture and entertainment
component of music and dance, speakers, film and
photography.
But
don't expect a macrame and hemp hippy festival.
Most of the exhibits are mainstream.
"I
respect what the hippies stand for but what we've
put together is more inclusive and mainstream,"
he said.
A
highlight will be a green motor show with displays
of current production hybrid and diesel vehicles.
Next
year, Ridge hopes to bring to Australia the Tesla
and Venturi high-performance electric sports car.
"I
want to show that the future of motoring can be
green and still perform," said Ridge who
now drives a Prius petrol-electric hybrid car.
"I'm
the perfect guy to be involved in this; I was
involved in marketing consumer products, now I'm
marketing a change in habit for the planet."
Information:
www.greenfest.com.au
Profiles
Colman
Ridge
Environmentalists
and the environment
Media Man Australia is delighted to be assisting
Greenfest in a media, publicity and talent management
capacity
Media
Man Australia conducted an off the record interview
with Colman Ridge on the 14th June 2008
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