Green Your Event
A typical event attendee generates an average of 4 pounds of waste per day.
Events are temporary in nature, which makes them inherently wasteful. If you’re a fellow sustainability nerd, I know you do your best to refuse plastic straws, reduce your use of disposable eating utensils, and reuse your own water bottle/coffee mug. But we sustainability nerds are the exception, not the rule.
But making events more sustainable goes well beyond waste reduction strategies. Event organizers need to be finding ways of preventing pollution, conserving nature, managing natural resources, engaging communities, and promoting public health. Getting ahead of these issues and implementing a sustainability strategy isn’t just great for your brand reputation, it ensures that the communities that you rely on to host your events are thriving.
In this week’s episode of Do What You Can For The People, I chat with my long-time friend, colleague, and now client Vivian Belzaguy about ways to organically harness your event’s existing operations, resources and reach and mitigate negative consequences and risks.
Vivian is the founder and lead consultant at Ascendance Sustainable Events, a consulting firm dedicated to helping events become more sustainable. She’s worked with big and small events to engage communities, develop custom sustainability strategies, and make the world a greener place.
Check out the video below for more about elevating event sustainability.
THINGS MENTIONED
Ascendance Event Sustainability Guide: https://www.greenyourevent.com/
Leave No Trace: https://lnt.org/
Carbon Offsets: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/sep/16/carbon-offset-projects-carbon-emissions
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Sustainability Plan: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16538&
Glastonbury Festival Ecological Policy: https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/green-glastonbury/our-green-policies/ecological-policy/
Burning Man Leave No Trace: https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/
Matter Out Of Place (MOOP): https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/moop/
Ultra Music Festival Mission Home: https://ultramusicfestival.com/mission-home-2019/
GET IN TOUCH WITH VIVIAN
Website: https://www.greenyourevent.com/
Instagram: @ascendanceevents
Email: hello@ascendanceevents.com
BE MY GUEST!
If you or someone you know would like to be featured on the show, please get in touch!