Media Release
Date: Monday, 23rd November
Camelspace Puts Climate Change on the Line
Leading event structure and scaffolding company, Camelspace, has constructed a giant washing line for an Oxfam New
Zealand event. At Takapuna Beach in Auckland, Pacific Islanders waded out into the sea to hang up 350 T-shirts on the
lines. Each shirt had the name of a different island printed on it to signify the insufficient action being taken to
combat climate change.
‘It was great to be involved with such a worthwhile cause,’ says Phil McConchie, Commercial Director and co-founder of
Camelspace. ‘We constructed the washing line out of specialist scaffolding material and also built submerged platforms
for the people hanging out the washing to stand on. We were incredibly pleased with the overall effect. It appeared as
if sea levels had risen so much that the Pacific Island residents’ backyards had been flooded.
‘Unfortunately, in some areas, this is already a reality. Hopefully, the 350 event and the resulting video we
participated in, will go some way towards bringing attention to the damaging effects of climate change on the Pacific
Islands.’
The campaign, ‘350 Islands for Change,’ was organised as part of the ‘350 International Day of Climate Action’, a global
call to bring greenhouse gas pollution back down to a safe level.
A video of the event can be viewed on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_LVtiRyenI
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