Inspiration and information related to the project
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
THE COPENHAGEN VERSION OF THE CO2 PAINTING Done on the 13th of December 2009
Each of the around 100 CO2 friendly cars was installed with a GPS that painted the above CO2 symbol over Copennhagen during COP15 and sent out the signals to the universe of CO2 awareness.
You are welcome to click on the map and download it. To print it out, please remember to use A3 paper in your printer.
See The C O 2 Route TV Show for spots to shoot during the CO2 E - Race Photography Project (Join the Facebook Group HERE)
THE CO2 E - RACE PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT December 13th 2009, along the CO2 route
On the 13th of December, there will besides the CO2 painting, be a photography project for anyone to join. The concept is to "geotag" the CO2 route through Copenhagen with images of the CO2 friendly cars by uploading them to Google Maps or Earth. See the first set of images uploaded by Michael Wolffhechel below.
It is a way to gather many people, images and intentions for climate awareness by creating a huge CO2 tag over Copenhagen with images of Electric Cars. This will also give the illusion that Copenhagen is filled with Electric Cars, as the vision of the CO2 E - Race is working on.
After the whole CO2 painting, the GPS devices will be delivered to the Green Vision Crew by Hans Christian Andersen's Palace.
The CO2 route goes by classic Copenhagen visual wonders.
The cars will pass by The Governments Museum of Art as part of the "2" in the CO2 route.
The "C" starts at Forum and the Bright Green exhibition
The cars will go over Queen Louise's Bridge, going down Nørrebrogade towards Nørreport Station.
British environmentalist Tony Juniper (special adviser for The Prince of Wales' Rain forrest Project and University of Cambridge, long-time CEO of Friends of Earth, has lead kampagnes for The Green Party, etc.) and the Danish author and professor Bjørn "The Hummer" Lomborg ("The Sceptical Environmentalist", Copenhagen Consensus).
The above shoot for ARTE TV
The Mini Hummer - also participating in the Riga version af the project.
More about the Mini Hummer HERE
The HOPE, was the first Danish Electric car produced in 1982. However, it was never put into final production and has become a sad legendary story about a failed Danish industrial dream. The story told as part of the workshops and story telling at the Danish National Museum, was to tell children that "even if you fail once, you should always get back up on the horse and try again"
The above recycled cardboard version of the "Hope" car was designed by Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen and Will Gurley, who is also one of the main designers for Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens.
The children each got a "kit" with the many different parts for building their own Hope.
The above is an example of a "pimped up" version of the Hope car, made by one of the children, along with workshops and performances at the Danish National Museum every sunday in November 2009.
Captian Hope - The Climate Super Hero also came and entertained the kids!
...and of course Mr. Green and his climate clown posse
"Pimp my Hope" - The children wrote their hopes for the future on the large Hope Car parts in a workshop and then together with Will and Jacob assembled it into the above 3D cardboard car.
The "What If" story about "What If" the Danish Hope Whisper Electric Car would have been a Success? Where would Denmark be in the Electric Car Industry 2009? The Past could have made our current Future, just a little bit better place to be.
Thank's to Smurfit Kappa for sponsorship of the cardboard and FREE FORM for cutting out the Hope shapes in the cardboard
The CO2 E - Race and friends spent 3 days at Bella Center, showing the biggest skeptics of the Electric Car, that they also can be sexy..click on image for a closer look! The LYNX Electric car was selected to be part of the "Best in Show" competition where people could SMS their vote X Factor Styles. The above image is of some of the Show Girls in the Electric Hummer.
Mr. Fresco will be in Copenhagen in connection to COP Creative taking place at the Danish Architecture School on the 26th of September 2009. Other participants in Cop Creative is brilliant Neri Oxman who was the first winner of the Earth Award, and Søs Gunver Ryberg (also part of The Triangle Project) who will exhibit her concept of sounds for the future cars. The concept of commissioning Sound Artists for the silent electric car is a project as part of the CO2 E - Race and will be exhibited in future installations.
Click in the corner of the video for full screen.
More about Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project HERE
Thursday, September 24, 2009
RIDE ON THE SUNNY ROAD (Solvej in Danish)
Solar Roadways wants to replace petroleum-based asphalt road surfaces with energy-producing solar panels
Steven Chu, physical scientist, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. Photography by Bart Nagel
US Energy Secretary Chu Announces $528 Million Loan for Advanced Vehicle Technology for Fisker Automotive
Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a $528.7 million conditional loan for Danish Fisker Automotive for the development of two lines of plug-in hybrids that will save hundreds of millions gallons of gasoline and offset millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2016. The project will result in approximately 5,000 jobs created or saved for domestic parts suppliers and thousands more to manufacture a plug-in hybrid in the U.S.
On Monday the 31st of August 2009, an EV charger was unveiled in The King's Lyngby. It was hosted by CO2PENHAGEN's Klaus Hjerl Lillelund and officially opened by Liss Kramer Mikkelsen who is the Head of Chief for the Technical Department of the town.
(from left) Denmark's President of The Danish Electrical Car Commité Per Jørgensen Møller, Liss Kramer Mikkelsen and Klaus Hjerl Lillelund unveiling the new energy source in the parking lot at the train station of the town
Monday, August 24, 2009
CO2 E - RACE AT COPENHAGEN HISTORIC GRAND PRIX
Copenhagen Mayor of the Technical and Environmental Administration Klaus Bondam in front of the Th!nk car from COWI
The man with the yellow pants talks to STV about electric cars
Each of the around 100 CO2 friendly cars was installed with a GPS that painted the above CO2 symbol over Copennhagen during COP15 and sent out the signals to the universe of CO2 awareness.
On the 13th of December, there will besides the CO2 painting, be a photography project for anyone to join. The concept is to "geotag" the CO2 route through Copenhagen with images of the CO2 friendly cars by uploading them to Google Maps or Earth. See the first set of images uploaded by Michael Wolffhechel below.
The cars will pass by The Governments Museum of Art as part of the "2" in the CO2 route.
The "C" starts at Forum and the Bright Green exhibition
The above recycled cardboard version of the "Hope" car was designed by Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen and Will Gurley, who is also one of the main designers for Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens.
Captian Hope - The Climate Super Hero also came and entertained the kids!
