After The World Left Copenhagen
The national christmas tree on Copenhagen's city hall square was lit by stationary bicycles up to and during the climate conference.
Now the square is almost back to normal now that the world has left, with the whole Hopenhagen town setup removed.
The christmas tree is now plugged in and running on electricity and the bicycles have been removed.
Symbolism?
8 thinking out louds:
Would this be the same 'green' Copenhagen that recently boasted of it's enviro credentials by holding the biggest environmental talking shop in history... ...and next year is going to fly a couple of tonnes of it's own harbour water to Japan for the sake of an expo? ;o)
Merry Christmas Mikael!
No different than cleaning the house before company arrives to visit . . . and then letting things settle back to their normal disarray afterwards.
Merry Christmas!
Might as well use fossil fuel to run the lights since the world decided to go down the road of excess.
But ignore them, stay low impact and be happy in your heart. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas.
Mark, Bristol.
In any case, powering the tree by bicycles probably wasn't all that efficient CO2-wise, given the number of food calories necessary to keep those bicycles going...
with regards to the harbour water, i know what you mean, but it's worth mentioning that the water won't be flown, it'll sail.
container ships arrive in europe full and sail back half empty.
so the harbour water gets a free ride.
Mikael,
I am not a marine engineer but surely the heavier a ship is the more fuel it will use.
It seems to me the only free ride we get is on a bicycle:)
Peter
Obviously no-one else watched the video all the way through;-) The architect explained that the container ships not only sail back empty, but that they have to take on additional water as ballast. The intention is to use the Copenhagen harbour water as ballast and therefore use no more fuel than would otherwise be required. Whether or not importing loads of crap from China that ends up in landfill within months is sustainable is another story...
Merry Christmas x
The Xmas tree was also on at night and cyclist-less during "Hopenhagen" and COP15. Clearly this was so one of the main sponsors of this exhibit, coal and nuclear-friendly energy company Vattenfall (from Sweden), could have the best image to continue their nasty greenwashing.
Even if - if - Better Place only uses wind-generated power, DK's favourite electric drink is still coal juice.
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