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Hick, Daryl Hannah open green fest

By Jerd Smith, Rocky Mountain News

Published August 24, 2008 at 2:03 p.m.
Updated August 24, 2008 at 2:03 p.m.

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Daryl Hannah participates in Greenfrontier Fest at Sculpture Park on Aug. 24. Mayor John Hickenlooper urged the crowd to embrace the idea that Colorado can serve as the hub of a "New Energy Economy."

Photo by JERD SMITH/THE ROCKY

Daryl Hannah participates in Greenfrontier Fest at Sculpture Park on Aug. 24. Mayor John Hickenlooper urged the crowd to embrace the idea that Colorado can serve as the hub of a "New Energy Economy."

SCULPTURE PARK — Mayor John Hickenlooper, sweating like the other cyclists that joined him on his bike ride from LoDo, welcomed several hundred people to the Greenfrontier Fest today at this park behind the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

“Riding down here, it was nice to have 100 bikes on the road,” Hickenlooper said, referring to Freewheelin, a bike share that will provide 1,000 free rides to anyone who needs one during the DNC. “Tomorrow there will be 1,000,” he said. “This is going to be the greenest convention in the history of conventions."

Hickenlooper, with actress Daryl Hannah sitting behind him on stage, urged the crowd to embrace the idea that Colorado can serve as the hub of a "New Energy Economy," one built around wind turbines and solar panels.

“Just a few years ago, the notion that we can build whole industries around changing our behavior seemed outlandish,” Hickenlooper said. “But Gov. Ritter is showing that this can be an economic benefit.”