Category: Event Sustainability
Organisers Take a Tent-ative Approach to Recycling Abandoned Shelters
The increasing availability of cheap tents, combined with poor summer weather, has lead to a rise in the number of festival-goers leaving them at sites. Organisers of Glastonbury festival have said that the labour intensive costs involved in trying to recycle the tents mean many of the tents will end up in landfill sites. However, [...]
Sustaining London 2012
Sustainability is going to be central to The London 2012 Organising Committee’s (LOCOG) procurement process. So, with all eyes in the live events industry looking for tendering opportunities, just how does a potential supplier make sure they meet LOCOG’s requirements? Heath Freeman, managing director of Pinnacle Crew, takes a look at LOCOG’s Sustainable Sourcing Code. [...]
Appeal for coordination of knowledge management from Olympics by Commission for Sustainable London
The lessons of sustainable construction and event management resulting from preparations for the 2012 London Olympics should be assimilated into all government procurement, says the annual report from the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, published this week. The report, Raising the Bar, is calling on the government to fulfil on the promise to make real changes to [...]
Firefly Solar Collaborate With Bredenoord To Bring Innovative Technology To UK Festivals
Firefly Solar are collaborating with Bredenoord, a leading supplier in the field of temporary, permanent and mobile power solutions to bring sustainable power to festivals. Bredenoord are a well-established Dutch company that have been providing energy and power solutions for over 70 years. The company are now collaborating with Firefly Solar to bring new and [...]
Glastonbury Festival 2010 to use solar electricity system
Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the annual music festival Glastonbury, is set to house 1,500 square meters of solar panels for this year’s event, in what would be the UK’s largest private solar electricity system. Festival organiser Michael Eavis hopes to place 1,100 solar panels on cow sheds during Glastonbury 2010. It is thought [...]
Sustainable Event Management Book Launched
Sustainable Event Management: A Practical Guide by Newcastle’s Meegan Jones has been launched offering event organisers information on how events can be managed with a lighter carbon footprint and impact on the environment. Jones, who’s returned to Australia after working for the past three years in the UK as Sustainability Manager for the producer of [...]
Brighton Festival Fringe Goes Green!
Firefly have announced that they are to be the exclusive technical production partner for the Brighton Festival Fringe in 2010. Firefly will be with the festival to ensure internal productions are delivered sustainably. Brighton Festival Fringe is one of the largest and fastest-growing open access arts festival in the world and the largest in England. Anyone [...]
Sustainable event standards to be developed by 2012
The International Organization for Standardization is working to develop an international standard — ISO 20121 — to promote the sustainable management of events and exhibitions. Expected to be finalized by 2012, the standard will require identification of key sustainability issues such as venue selection, operating procedures, supply chain management, procurement, communication and transport. The standard [...]
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