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Organizers of this summer’s Rideau Canal Festival in Ottawa have done the math and found it’s not easy being green.
The Rideau Canal Festival is one of the first Ottawa events to use the carbon calculator at ottawa.zerofootprint.net, a website launched Monday by the City of Ottawa in partnership with Zerofootprint, a non profit organization that focuses on measuring carbon emissions.
The festival, which will feature boating, cycling and heritage events, launches in August to mark the designation of the Canal as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its organizers pledged in April to make it carbon-neutral and have since run into some unexpected costs of doing so.
Michel Gauthier, the Rideau Canal Festival’s CEO, said carbon-reduction is integrated into every planning and fundraising activity for the festival. He found calculating the festival’s emissions was more complicated than he expected.
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