CO2 Limbo and Other Fun Climate Initiatives

An alternative to saving CO2 by washing at 30 °C is to take your bike instead of using your car. At Roskilde, one of the many initiatives was bicycles placed at the Climate Community, where you could bike and recharge your mobile phone at the same time.

We bumped into Hans and August who were cycling for their life to recharge their mobile phones :). They both thought it was cool to be able to recharge phones themselves, as it felt like a bit of a luxury to be able to ‘bike their way to energy’ as they didn’t have to queue up in the hot weather and stand there and wait to hand their phones to someone else, and then having to go back and pick them up later.

August said he had always been a little aware of making the small changes in order to be environmentally friendly such as turning off the light when leaving the room, biking to work etc., but he said that whenever he took his car to work/gym, he felt really bad about it, because compared to biking there, it produced a lot of unnecessary emissions, and that both he and Hans tried to limit the use of their cars.

August and Hans thought the environment issue was a good theme for the Roskilde Festival, as it brought attention to environmental issues, and made them think more about it, more so in relation to COP15 in December, where Copenhagen is hosting the Climate Conference.

Another original initiative at the Climate Community was the CO2 limbo. The limbo was powered by solar energy and played the limbo song nonstop. The initiative is a really funny approach to the climate changes as the message was: How low can you go? Check out the video: