3,500 runners, 100 cities, 35 countries = One Giant Leap: The world’s largest ever international parkour jam
Sandbag is a campaigning organisation focused on emissions trading by buying up and cancelling emissions permits from suitable sellers who use the money on projects to increase energy efficiency, encouraging companies who hold permits to cancel them rather than use them to emit and by campaigning for tighter caps on emissions. Acting in partnership with Parkour Generations thousands of free runners will be ducking and diving, bobbing, weaving and flying their way around at events in 100 cities tomorrow with the aim of raising awareness of climate change and calling for our politicians to agree an effective new global deal come December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Naomi Honey, a free-runner in London, told the Guardian that there were natural parallels between the sport and efforts to reduce emissions: “They’re both about efficiency. Parkour is about being efficient with your body – trying to access its full capabilities. You’re constantly trying to develop the strength and control and fluidity to enable you to move further, faster and with less effort. The drive against climate change is about the same thing. No one is suggesting that we go back to a world before electricity, just that we make sure we are using everything in the most efficient way.”
Find out more about the Sandbag campaign, sign up to the petition, become a member, or just find your local Parkour Jam for tomorrow right here!
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