Down to Earth – ConFest
Name:
Down to Earth – ConFest
Description:
Organisation behind many of Australia’s largest eco-festivals. Linking up alternative lifestylers, creators and eco-activists.
Their official description: “The Down to Earth Co-op Society has been organising ConFest (Conference/ Festival). We are a completely volunteer organisation. The first ConFest was held at Cotter River, ACT in 1976 with the aim of `transforming society’. ConFest was started as an ‘alternative living’ festival in the 1970’s by Jim Cairns (then Deputy Prime Minister) and his assistant Junie Morosi and others.”