Summer is coming and festivals are blooming all around the world.
But have you ask yourself how green is your festival?
Please find here some links to achieve more sustainable festival events!
- The European Festival Association Yourope is dedicated to improving the European festival scene in terms of working conditions, health and safety issues, environmental awareness and in promoting the cross-border exchange of live music talent. Developed in 2006, the Green’n’Clean Internet tool contains detailed information on how to manage and implement an environmentally friendly festival. For more information www.yourope.org or please contact: yourope@yourope.org
Click here for ‘Green’n'Clean’ PDF download.
- AGreenerFestival was set up in 2006 to champion the sustainable events and environmentally friendly music and arts festivals. The organisation “is not for profit” and it’s main activity is to facilitate the exchange of best practice through the website www.agreenerfestival.com. The Organisation also promote the annual awards scheme (The Greener Festival Awards) for green festivals in association with the UK Festival Awards. The first winners of the award in 2007 included The Glastonbury Festival, Lattitude, The Big Chill and the Sunrise Celebration. AGreenerFestival actively supports Julies Bicycle, the UK’s cross music initiative on climate change and YOUROPE’s Green n Clean initiative for European festivals.
Contact: A Greener Festival Ltd 8 Henley Prior Collier Street London N1 9JU
Ben Challis: benchallis@aol.com
Press: Sam Hinde sam@freemanpr.net
- Green Futures Festivals aims to reveal the appropriate systems required to create a sustainable lifestyle and ecology, whilst also supporting personal and spiritual freedom. They aim to influence contemporary education systems. Based upon the premise that a safe, inspirational and self sustaining society will not just happen but will have to be built, Green Futures Festivals welcomes all who have an interest in this kind of future to work cohesively. By sharing information and providing a forum for interactive exploration we hope to move toward our goals.
Green Futures Festivals 28 Gibbon Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 6AB
http://greenfuturesfestivals.org.uk