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Croatia: Promoting Solar Energy at Terraneo Music Festival

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe, Austria, Croatia, Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Music, Technology

UNDP's Voices from Eurasia blog reports [1] on the ecological education program of this year's Terraneo [2] music festival in Šibenik, where guests, among other things, could “test-drive Croatia’s only solar-powered car and bicycle.” In charge of the festival's “solar booth” were Marko Capek and Robert Pašičko, who “also sang songs about [solar energy], changing the lyrics of Sunshine Reggae and other favorites.”

[…] Just to illustrate, Austria, which has only two thirds of Croatia’s sunshine, uses 20 times more solar power than Croatia. […]