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The SXSW Bag, “We Waste Paper”
by Allen Stern on March 7th, 2008
The SXSW Interactive Festival is here and today I stopped by registration to pick up my bag. The whole bag industry has changed over the years — the good stuff is gone, all replaced by paper. Wouldn’t it be easier to put all of these ads on a dvd and just give us that? The garbage pile was already pretty full once I got there and it was only two hours in! Check out these photos of just how many interactive and film bags they’ve created! (click for larger)
And for you home gamers, here is a video of all of the crap in the bag. Not one thing is even remotely cool.
I really hate these self-righteous hypocrite jerks mostly from San Francisco, like the founders of Google who drive hybrids and preach green technology, then fly in their private 747s and run events loaded with trash and waste. I bet most of the higher ups at SXSW were also at Davos talking about how much they care about the environment.
A perfect example of this is when you see these big shots give their speeches, while taking sips from their disposable plastic bottles of water. With their billion dollar salaries they can at least afford a $20 reusable water bottle.
Allen thank you for exposing this.