#greentech festival

[blorbocedes]

cracking up at nico accidentally twinning with this lady who is germany's environment minister

[rainbowintheskyf1]

📸 sara habets

seb spotted at the greentech festival 🥹

[p1tstop]

BREAKING NEWS Nico Rosberg shares thoughts following discovery of F1blr

[blorbocedes]

i say this as a seb fan, but i kinda feel like him going to greentech is one of the most practical bits of environmentalism that he has ever done. i get that he's drawn awareness to a lot of topics through "activism" and has had various projects, but i don't really feel like a lot of it has been very substantial.

as much as i disagree with a lot of nico's eco capitalism (electric yachts are never going to save the world) i legitimately think that nico has worked very hard with actual environmental organisations that do genuinely good and effective work in the world. i know several people who work in green energy in asia, and were at greentech in singapore last year, and they have always been very complimentary about it, and said that it's been genuinely useful to them both in terms of building their business and make the energy industry a bit more environmental.

i'm really hopeful that seb showing up to greentech (especially if he didn't realise that it was nico's event 😂) is the start of him actually doing something meaningful in the environmental sphere

LOL get his ass 💀💀💀

i tend to stay critical of nico's well meaning environmentalism because a lot of his approach relies on eco-consumerism, that you can consume your way out of climate crisis instead of govt policies and implementation. but I do think the electric car push is a necessary one to move away from fossil fuel dependence. and also cause I find fandom's overly fawning over seb as an environmental activist so cringe... like something about "Miami 2060 under water" while being paid by aramco is soooo 😬🥴🥴🥴

that being said. greentech festival had Johan Rockström speaking!!! THE leading climate/sustainability scientist... and nico's clearly done his homework. greentech essentially serves as a launching pad, a lot of networking, allowing spaces for qualified people to speak, highlight local and intl sustainability businesses/efforts. and nico's f1 pull means there's cool cars. i believe this one had German members of parliament attending, and Nico works with Prince Albert over having more charging stations in monaco. ultimately he's a rich guy with a hobby, but he's been doing this event for 5 years now so he's clearly passionate at it and arguably has been speaking ab climate longer than other drivers fandom treats as radical environmentalist activists, and there's worse things to spend his money on... events take money to organise! esp at this scale!

[blorbocedes]

for pride month, greentech festival leaned in to the girls and the gays by posting queer german models kim hnizdo and elena carrière

fun fact, they met and were the 2016 winner and runner up of Germany's Next Top Model and started hooking up there... then when people asked if they were dating or friends with benefits, they were like "something in between" and won the damn show 😭

(in 2023)

[p1tstop]

[p1tstop]

@nicorosberg It's shocking to see how much garbage is thrown into the water... why would you do that? We kicked off our @greentech_festival yesterday with a cleanup on the canals of London 🙏 Thank you to all partners and participants for your support 👏

[p1tstop]

NICO 'SUSTAINABLE GIRLBOSS' ROSBERG Greentech Festival | 05.11.21 | London