Fwd: Re: Zero Carbon World Concert for a Zero Carbon World

[Richard Gillard]

Thinking about this some more, perhaps it shouldn't be rock bands.  Perhaps we should simply gather (and play) some accoustic instruments in Bedford Park.  Accoustic instruments are very nearly zero carbon.  There might be a one off carbon cost in their manufacture.  However, these instruments then produce music for years (sometimes hundreds of years), with no carbon cost whatsoever.

What do we think people?  I've already dusted off my accoustic guitar!

Regards

Richard

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Subject:	Re: Zero Carbon World Concert for a Zero Carbon World
Date:	Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:17:01 +0100
From:	Richard Gillard <richardg...@btinternet.com>
Reply-To:	transitio...@googlegroups.com
To:	transitio...@googlegroups.com

Hi All

It would be fabulous is we could bring this to Bedford.  Bedford Park makes an excellent music venue.  I once saw the Jules Holland Rythm and Blues band in Bedford Park.  It was amazing how much room there seemed to be.  Indeed, Bedford Park is a little bit like Dr. Who's Tardis.  Put a Rock Concert in the middle of Bedford Park and it grows to accomodate it.

Do we have any entrapreneurs in our midst, people who know how to book parks as music venues and persuade bands to appear for nothing, in order to help a good cause?


Kind Regards


Richard

On 03/08/2010 21:18, Shane Hughes wrote:

Hi all, i promised to forward this to the list.
Shane
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    Subject : Zero Carbon World Concert for a Zero Carbon World
    Date : Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:18:28 +0100
    From : Chris Keene <chris...@tiscali.co.uk>
    To : shanehughes99 <shane...@lycos.com>

    Hi Shane

    Hope things are going well with Transition Bedford. Sorry we never
got
    a chance to meet when I visited on my zero carbon journey from
Wales to
    Copenhagen last autumn.

    As I'm sure you know, we didn't get a deal at Copenhagen, so this
year
    I've come up with another campaigning idea, a zero carbon world
concert
    for a zero carbon world, a series of events all over the world to
prove
    to the politicians that we can have zero carbon leisure even now

    www.zerocarbonconcert.org

    The concerts will take place all over the world on the weekend
just
    before the COP - 27/28 Nov, but preparations can begin on 10/10/10
as
    part of the Global Work Party organised by 350 and 10:210 ,
    joining thousands of other events world wide . I was impressed
with
    Transition Bedford when I visited last year, and so I hope you
will be
    able to hold an event there.

    As well as organising events, we are collaborating together to
solve the
    practical problems of putting on a zero carbon event, pooling our
ideas
    using the website - where you can make comments at the bottom of
the
    page 'Organise a concert' or by joining the discussion list (email
    zero-carbon-c...@lists.zzero.org with subject
SUBSCRIBE). One
    of the problems which is proving particularly tricky to solve is
getting
    the concerts onto the internet in a zero carbon fashion (of course
the
    internet itself emits vast quantities of carbon, and we can't do
    anything about that, but at least we can try and upload things
without
    causing any emissions).

    If you have any further questions please email me or just give me
a
    ring. Holding a truly zero carbon event which includes all aspects
    including transport to the venue could be a bit daunting, but we
don't
    expect everyone everywhere will meet that exacting standard (and
we're
    counting public transport, which will be running anyway so won't
    generate any *extra* carbon, as zero) but we will try our best,
and I'm
    sure will do enough to prove that a zero carbon world is possible,
if
    only we had the political will.

    Kind regards

    Chris Keene

  

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Best Wishes


Richard
www.richardgillard.webs.com
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[Richard Gillard]

I find the following page of the website seems very useful:

http://www.zerocarbonconcert.org/?page_id=39

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