Environmentalists will participate in six video-conference with colleagues from St. Petersburg

"The conference will be part of the festival" Art, in order to survive, "which will be held from 19 to 20 August in St. Petersburg. For the first time in the world able to dock environmentalists, artists, and thinkers from different continents in the same space with the help of multimedia technology. In addition to St. Petersburg, the project will be part of Sao Paulo, New Delhi and Nairobi, and most of the events will be held at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. We would like to see representatives of different nations and cultures involved in the process of creating a model of post-crisis world and tried to introduce a new "green" future ", – told RIA Novosti representative committee Angelina Davydova. Conference participants will discuss the possibility of rejection of dependence on raw materials, will appreciate the idea of prosperity without economic growth and try to explain to each other that each one understands the term "sustainable development". Russia in these discussions will be Professor of Economics and Environmental Moscow State University, Sergei Bobylev. "We do not make a conference exclusively for scholars, artists and environmentalists, and trying to create an interdisciplinary dialogue. Conference – part of the festival, which has become a space for new ideas not only "green" future in which we are going, but also to answer the questions – as, indeed, there is going to get, and whether anyone at all to go there "- explained Davydov. In addition to videoconferences, the forum will include screenings of short films submitted to the festival "Ekochashka", dance performances and video installations. "Green" art will be presented pictures of moss and grass on the vertical art group «Fito Ecology». The main venue of the festival "Art in order to survive" will be the space of "Taiga" on the Palace Embankment in St. Petersburg. The festival was organized House of World Cultures in Berlin, the Russian-German Office of Environmental Information and cultural space "Taiga". All Regional News