Posted on 12/07/2009 1:15:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PRAGUE (AFP) – Take a tram instead of a taxi and don't change your towel every day -- such are the rules at a two-day "carbon-free" congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES), which started in Prague on Monday.
"The idea is simple: we want our congress to have absolutely no impact on the amount of carbon in the environment," said the organisers, who have made climate change one of the top items on the agenda.
Hundreds of men in ties and women in sharp outfits arrived at the congress venue clutching tram tickets, distributed for free by the organisers, the Czech Social Democrats.
"It's a great idea. I like public transport," said Paz Fernandez Felgueroso, a Spanish delegate.
The PES, which groups national centre-left parties from across the 27-nation European Union, said it was the first party ever to hold a "carbon-free congress".
It said it would also restrict heating at the congress, offer products such as organic cotton shirts and bags, and curb paper consumption by sending e-mails.
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From right: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen of Denmark, the president of the Party of European Socialists (PES), and other European socialist leaders take public transport to a congress venue in Prague. Take a tram instead of a taxi and don't change your towel every day -- such are the rules at a two-day "carbon-free" congress of the Party of European Socialists, which has started in Prague. (AFP/Michal Cizek)
Did they leave their cigarettes at home as well?
If each one of them would commit suicide, they could reduce their carbon footprints to zero.
Wear your underwear two days , Once on the right side and then next day turn them inside out, and wear them again.
Socks can be worm for two days the same way.
Don't brush your teeth. Don't throw away your garbage. Wipe after a Number Two only once a week. Take showers once a month (wait a minute...EuroTrash already does that).
Seriously, this enviro-martyrism is patently insane.
Yeah and I just finished reading an article that said most of them are arriving in Limo’s and SUV’s. You dont think this bunch on the streetcar went out for a photo-op do you?
It would be even more carbon free if they all just held their collective breaths for the duration of the conference.
They didn’t exhale!
I wonder if the local prostitutes avoided the event?
Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-summit-disarray-danish-text
The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of commitment" – but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-change
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