Today's press conferences began at 8 a.m. and didn't end until 6 p.m. when Richard Gere left the room. The same thing will happen tomorrow and the day after that, and so on until the end of the week. But there isn't just one new press conference each hour, there are three, each with its own press package. News releases on the launch of commemorative postage stamps and complilation CDs featuring "talented young artists" are scattered across the table I'm sittting at in the media center. Oxfam is calling for an investment in health systems, the Chi Heng Foundation wants us to know about the children in China that have been impacted by AIDS, and ActionAid International and the Canadian International Development Agency are calling for Girl Power.
It all amounts to a lot of paper. Photocopiers are burning through 150,000 to 200,000 pieces of paper each day to produce the press releases and speaking notes that we rely on to tell who's going to say what and what they did say. And that number doesn't even include the paper fed into the printers for us to use.
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Not saving any trees at this conference
Category: Dispatches From Toronto
Posted on: August 14, 2006 5:36 PM, by Hannah Hoag
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