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| Title: | Trees for Zambia: Earth Fest 2013 |
| When: | 19.07.2013 - 20.07.2013 |
| Location: | Livingstone, Zambia |
| Description: | Come celebrate Greenpop’s Trees for Zambia action event with our Earth Fest – a two day music and sustainability festival in the beautiful Livingstone, Zambia! Greenpop will be in Livingstone 7 - 28th July for the second year hosting Trees for Zambia – a three-week action event based on getting people active about making sustainable changes. During the second weekend of the event, 19 - 20th July, Greenpop will be celebrating the previous two weeks and kicking off the third with a music and sustainability festival, Trees for Zambia Earth Fest 2013. The first of its kind, Earth Fest is more than an ordinary music festival – it aims to highlight the tree-mendous musical talent that graces Southern Africa while also bringing together like-minded, forward-thinking individuals who hope to see a greener future for Africa. The weekend will start off on Friday 19th July in the evening with a party Train Ride from Livingstone train station to the Vic Falls Bridge (DJs and all drinks included). Fest goers can meet at the Livingstone station at 16:30 sharp. On Saturday 20 July, the festival will move to the Greenpop Village at Livingstone Safari Lodge where, from 15:00, attendees can participate in sustainability workshops. They will have the chance to learn more about what Greenpop is doing in Livingstone and get a taste of a full week’s activities. Music starts from 18:00 and will include performances by Jeremy Loops, Chicken Bus Band, Yes Rasta, Black Light Panda, Pat McCay, Tribute Mboweni, That Mans band and more. Pricing and Details Fri 19th Train: $40 or ZMW 230 Sat 20th Concert: $15 or ZMW 80 Double deal (Fri and Sat parties): $50 or ZMW 270 Early Bird Saturday Special: $10 or ZMW 50 Camping at Greenpop Village at Livingstone Safari Lodge on Fri 19th and/or Sat 20th: $10 or ZMW 50 per night (bring your own tent & dinner will be on sale) Book by calling or emailing: Zambia@greenpop.org / +26(0)96 954 0817 Tickets on sale at: Vic Falls Steam Train (Vic Falls) Zimbabwe Tourism office (Vic Falls) Shoestring backpackers (Vic Falls) The Spot (Livingstone) Zambian Tourism Office (Livingstone) Livingstone Backpackers (Livingstone) Shearwater Adventures Bridge and Main office (Vic Falls) About Greenpop: Greenpop is a social enterprise that believes greening and sustainable living can be fun, POPular and accessible for all. They believe in inspiring a greener, more conscious, inclusive movement and do this through tree planting projects, green events, education, social media, voluntourism and activating people to start DOING! Since its inception in September 2010, Greenpop has planted over 24,000 trees in over 230 beneficiary schools, crèches, orphanages, old-age homes, community centers, and deforested areas. Creative tree-care programs have been implemented and children, community members, corporates and volunteers are getting their hands dirty, learning a lot and loving it. www.greenpop.org About Trees for Zambia: Earth Fest will be taking place during Trees for Zambia in celebration of the event. Zambia has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world and this issue affects the whole of Southern Africa – climate change and deforestation are not country-specific challenges. In 2012 Greenpop launched Trees for Zambia, a reforestation and eco-awareness project which began with a 3-week tree planting event and was followed by an ongoing campaign to inspire awareness about deforestation, climate change, tree planting, environmental sustainability and alternative energy sources. Trees for Zambia 2013 will be the second action event hosted in Livingstone to boost the project and plant 5000 trees in schools, on subsistence farms and in reforestation sites. Again we’ll host educational workshops for school children, subsistence farmers and volunteers. Trees for Zambia is a holistic awareness campaign based on getting people active about making sustainable changes. The project aims to: · Create awareness around the deforestation issue and highlight grassroots solutions that can start being implemented · Develop a culture of planting trees within communities through conservation education, and by teaching people how to plant and look after trees · Highlight the global value of conserving the world’s natural forests · Promote and provide alternative energy sources (particularly solar cooking), so that people can move away from the dependence on charcoal · Start reforestation in protected forest sites to replace the pioneer trees, allowing for new growth and regeneration of soil content · Educate children on their natural environment, and help feed them by planting fruit trees at under- resourced schools · Promote conservation farming methods to replace slash and burn techniques that will stop erosion and soil degradation, create more cost-efficient farms and help avoid fires · Start a micro tree nursery enterprise at a selected number of subsistence farms, so that we can provide farmers with an additional income by buying trees from them · Create an exciting and stimulating programme of practical work, lectures and workshops for local and international volunteers, through which they can educate themselves and be actively involved in environmental issues Activities at the project include planting indigenous and fruit trees, working to set up micro-nursery enterprises in surrounding communities, implementing conservation education at local schools, promoting conservation farming techniques and fire prevention among small-scale subsistence farmers, promoting alternative energy sources such as solar cooking in order to reduce the region’s dependence on unsustainable charcoal burning, and a radio and video awareness campaign. If you would like more information on the Earth Fest event or Trees for Zambia as a whole or would care to request to cover the event in your publication, please contact Lauren O’Donnell via lauren@greenpop.org or +27 (0)21 461 9265 / +27 (0)83 412 8006/ +26(0)96 954 0817. We greatly appreciate all promotions and coverage. For other queries about Greenpop or this particular Trees for Zambia event, please email zambia@greenpop.org, and we’ll make sure to answer your message promptly or pass on your message to the appropriate department. |
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