The Respect Festival is a tour of « Eco-Events », in which environmental aspects are given a great role. After the stops in Les Houches, Val Thorens, Valmorel, the final festival will be held in Les Arcs on 6 and 7 april 2008.

Let’s limit our impact
Car-sharing on allosurf.net, Carbon compensation, composting toilets, waste sorting, returnable dishes, organic cotton, wine and bier, documents use recycled paper with vegetable ink
Our goal : combine parties and environment in a festival for a large audience.

Diagnostic tool : « Eco-Event » Guide
Created by Mountain Riders, this evolutionary tool enables you to estimate the environmental involvement of an event, and can be used for every kind of event : cultural, festive, sport event…

Village
Organic products/
fair trade items : food, clothes, wellness
Children’s corner: wood games, making marionettes, movies
Interviews, debates (fair trade, organic cotton, sustainable mobility)
Movies, Eco-building, Nature Parks

Concert
. Returnable glasses . Organic wine & beer . Waste sorting . Composting toilets Car-sharing on www.allosurf.net « What’s up », drawing lots for car-sharers who booked. In partnership with: La Sécurité Routière & Brasserie du Pilat.

SOS Banked Slalom
A slalom: opened to everyone – free entrance – test Dupraz snowboards. The aim of this timed slalom ; have fun and good riding sensations !! Join us on the banked slalom, you may win a D1 board !!

Mountain Riders
Our goal : Mountain Riders promotes sustainable development alternatives and the settling of a sustainable tourism in ski resorts.

Partnerships: The association wishes to collaborate with everyone : politicians, vacationists, ski lifts, accomodation, shopkeepers, because the change will not be possible until cooperation at every level takes place.

A philosophy: We try to make a change with a positive attitude while giving a range of possible solutions and concrete actions of education, studies and research,

Program
April 6th- 7th Les Arcs
Village Le Charvet Arc 18006 & 7 april
Live 6th april 8:30 pm Centre Bernard Taillefer
SOS Banked Slalom7th april from 10:00 am Chantel Clinton Fearon (ex Gladiators) & Mighty Cut Band (Reggae, Jamaïca) Nicolas NourritIwoks Selecta & SK93( Ragga from Savoy)
Booked : 13€ / 15€
More infos/ booking: +33 (0)4 79 07 12 57
lesarcs@lesarcs.com / www.lesarcs.com
Supported by “Esprit des Arcs”.