A Greener Festival
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A Greener Festival is a not-for-profit limited company. It helps music and arts events and festivals adopt environmentally efficient practices - by providing information, education resources and encouraging the exchange of ideas.
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[edit] Product
A Greener Festival website promotes good environmental policies for festival and event organisers. It provides a range of resources and links, and a message board that is used to exchange good ideas.
[edit] Resources
Information is provided on:
- Our Planet, Our Environment
- Traffic Congestion & Travel
- Waste Management at Festivals
- Co2 Emissions
- Noise Pollution
- Land Damage
- Summary of Research
[edit] Greener Festival awards
They run an annual Greener Festival Award to showcase events that are incorporating environmental best practice.
In 2008 four UK festivals and eight international festivals were awarded the 'Greener Festival Award' and three of the UK Festivals were awarded the 'outstanding' mark. Applications for the 2009 awards were announced in February 2009.[1]
[edit] History
The project was started by Ben Challis, Luke Westbury and Claire O'Neill based on research data from Claire's final year dissertation titled 'Should UK Music Festival Organisers Implement Environmentally Friendly Practices into Event Management?'.
[edit] Impact
It has run successful awards and conferences and gained the support of a large number of organisations.[2]
