Festivals:
A Greener Festival
A Greener Festival Ltd. is a not-for-profit company committed to help music and arts events and festivals around the world adopt environmentally efficient practices through providing information, by providing education resources and by swapping ideas. The basic purpose of the site is to provide information about how environmentally efficient methods are currently employed at music and arts festivals and to provide a forum for discussion about how the impact of festivals on the environment can be limited at future events. We hope to do this by by providing information on the best ideas for greener festivals from around the world.
Green Futures Festivals
Green Futures Festivals aims to reveal the appropriate systems required to create a sustainable lifestyle and ecology, whilst also supporting personal and spiritual freedom. We aim to influence contemporary education systems. The festival scene is an obvious direction for new learning. Education at these events is almost non-existent, yet thousands of people attend who are relaxed and receptive to new ideas.
Legislation:
BS8901 Register
BS8901 Register has been created to allow the events industry to identify companies and organisations who are working towards sustainability. BS8901 is the British Standard for sustainable event management. This site also lists companies claiming other forms of accreditation such as ISO 14001. We also allow companies to be listed who are on the road to sustainability but don’t yet have any formal benchmarking.
This site is designed to provide a simple one stop shop for users to see which suppliers out there are working in sustainable ways, which venues are incorporating environmental and social issues into the way they host events, and which event managers are thinking of the planet rather than their commission.
Theatre and the Performing Arts:
The Ashden Directory
Brings together environmentalism and the performing arts
The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
The CSPA was founded by Ian Garrett and Miranda Wright in early 2008 and is currently supported in part by partnerships with the LA Stage Alliance and the CalArts School of Theater.
Earth Matters on Stage
The mission of Earth Matters on Stage is to nurture connection and collaboration among artists who share an ecological sensibility.
50 things you can do to be a more sustainable theatre – The Green Theater
Greening Theatres
In September 2008, the Mayor of London launched a new publication packed full of practical advice tailored to the theatre industry. The Green Theatre Plan marries sustainability with the arts, demonstrating how theatres can reduce their carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.
This site builds upon the Green Theatre Plan to provide practical and effective ways of reducing energy consumption while saving money, as well as addressing wider issues of sustainability in the arts.
General:
World Changing
One of the top 15 environmental websites
Tree Hugger
TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.
Green Options
Green Options is a community and network of blogs dedicated to helping you figure out what sustainability means to you. Pick a channel above or browse around.
Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development.
The Council provides a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.
Low Carbon Economy
There is an urgent need to transition to a low carbon economy to address the global challenges of diminishing fossil fuel reserves, climate change, environmental management and finite natural resources serving an expanding world population.
All or any of these reasons mean that urgent action is required to transition to solutions which minimise environmental impact and are sustainable. Failure to deliver such action will have catastrophic consequences for mankind, both economically and physically.
Living on Earth
Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth’s news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. The show airs in 9 of the 10 top radio markets and reaches 80% of the US.
Centre for Alternative Technology
CAT offers solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources. The centre demonstrates practical ways of addressing these problems. Leading by example, it aims to show that living more sustainably is not only easy to attain but can provide a better quality of life.
Business Green
Exactly what it says – everything you need to know to green up your business.
EnviroWise
Envirowise offers free, independent support to your business helping you to become more resource efficient and save money. Since 1994, Envirowise has helped UK industry save more than £1 billion by reducing waste early on in their business processes. The site also offers advice on managing unavoidable waste and working with your suppliers to maximise gains from beginning to end.
Ecogeek
EcoGeek was conceived and founded (and is run and edited) by Hank Green. Hank spends most of his time thinking about how our brains can save our planet and has, in the last few years, become something of an expert on the subject. He appears regularly on Planet Green’s nightly news show “G Word,” and has written on the subject for a variety of print and online magazines. His work has appeared in publications ranging from Mental Floss Magazine to The New York Times and he’s been interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered and Air America’s The Young Turks.
