This weekend a large section of Regent's Park played home to the London Green Fair displaying a festival of sustainability. The festival featured a range of eco-zones celebrating everything from ethical fashion to permaculture. Unlike many of the summer festivals which along with their hippy, greenie vibes actually have quite negative impacts environmentally in terms of travel emissions, rubbish and land impact the Green Fair gets a gold star. The entire event was powered by renewable forms of energy even down to the Bike Music Stage where revelers were rewarded with happy beats in exchange for pedaling and powering up the sound equipment. Also as a gift to those movers and shakers attending the fair 500 trees were given away to offset some of the carbon footprint of the festivals infrastructure. The various market stalls, campaign stands and workshop tents provided something for everyone, whether it was up-cycling an old sweater, hearing provoking poetry about environmental and social justice or learning about urban food growing from VerticalVeg pioneer Mark Ridsdill Smith. Capital Growth (supporting food growing in London) were also out in force with a fun stall of food growing related games and tombola to win locally grown produce and seedlings, roll up roll up! A great family day out for all especially with the presence of some special friends from Hackney City Farm including some chirpy chickens and fluffy bunny rabbits! At the end of my stewarding duties (you are the eyes and ears of the festival) evening was approaching and after a friendly chitchat with the lovely peeps in the permaculture tent there was nothing left to do but sit down on the grass with some organic cider and listen to the final band close out the day!
Monday, 6 June 2011
London Green Fair
This weekend a large section of Regent's Park played home to the London Green Fair displaying a festival of sustainability. The festival featured a range of eco-zones celebrating everything from ethical fashion to permaculture. Unlike many of the summer festivals which along with their hippy, greenie vibes actually have quite negative impacts environmentally in terms of travel emissions, rubbish and land impact the Green Fair gets a gold star. The entire event was powered by renewable forms of energy even down to the Bike Music Stage where revelers were rewarded with happy beats in exchange for pedaling and powering up the sound equipment. Also as a gift to those movers and shakers attending the fair 500 trees were given away to offset some of the carbon footprint of the festivals infrastructure. The various market stalls, campaign stands and workshop tents provided something for everyone, whether it was up-cycling an old sweater, hearing provoking poetry about environmental and social justice or learning about urban food growing from VerticalVeg pioneer Mark Ridsdill Smith. Capital Growth (supporting food growing in London) were also out in force with a fun stall of food growing related games and tombola to win locally grown produce and seedlings, roll up roll up! A great family day out for all especially with the presence of some special friends from Hackney City Farm including some chirpy chickens and fluffy bunny rabbits! At the end of my stewarding duties (you are the eyes and ears of the festival) evening was approaching and after a friendly chitchat with the lovely peeps in the permaculture tent there was nothing left to do but sit down on the grass with some organic cider and listen to the final band close out the day!
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