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Car free day in Kyiv

Car free day in Kyiv

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Climate advocates from Ukraine joined cyclists to support Car free day in Kyiv on 21 September 2008. Some of them were riding in polar bear costumes to highlight the danger of polar bears becoming extinct due to global warming. The slogan of the bike ride was “Kyiv is the city of parks, not parkings lots”. The 26 km-long ride in Kyiv took place in the pouring rain, but a press conference, climate change photo exhibition, eco-quiz and concerts by Ukrainian youth music groups, were just some of the rewards participants could look forward to after finishing their ride. Unexpectedly, musicians from the Absdolts band borrowed the polar bear costumes of our advocates and began an improvised performance with environmental slogans and stories. The first Car free day was a real success thanks to a huge amount of enthusiasm from the climate advocates and other organisers as well as the further action plans it managed to generate, despite the weather!

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Martin Sádovský - Martin Sádovský graduated at the Economic University Bratislava in 2002.  At the Faculty of Political Economy he specialized in economic policies. He has changed several occupations and achieved many goals in both in business and personal life. He has been through various jobs from highly skilled physical work to work with a publishing company, banking, legal and accounting fields, or information technology. He currently works as a business consultant in the area of IT. His present ambitions are to be helpful to his country and the earth globally in the field of ecology and environment. He feels that becoming a climate advocate is a suitable means to start his new professional life. Martin would like to bring some professional and collaborative approach to the project and hopes that its outputs will be useful for the earth and the environment. Issues regarding the environment are ecology are the most actual in his life nowadays. He is determined to spend much energy step in this area.

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