The second Green Events & Innovations Conference will take place at London’s Southbank Centre on Friday March 16th, hosted by A Greener Festival and Bucks New University, supported by the Association of Independent Festivals. Confirmed panels include minimising water use at festivals, sustainable food & catering at events and the economics of sustainable events – [...]
Read more →On the map: Greener Festival Award 2011 Winners
Click the thumbnails below to see full size maps of UK winners and Worldwide winners of the 2011 Greener Festival Award. Huge thanks to Nico Pianet for preparing these for us! (n.b. the images are quite large so may take a little while to load).
Read more →Our lovely Award winners pick up their 'flags'
Luke, Helen and Claire from A Greener Festival, Matt, Max and Steve from Robertson Taylor, and festival organisers from Cambridge Folk Festival, Greenbelt, Hadra Trance Festival, Festibelly, T-in-the-Park, Wood, The Isle of Wight Festival and Shambala, pick up their ‘flag’ awards at the UK Festival Conference 2011 at the Forum, London. Good times! Shambala won [...]
Read more →And our new trophy is....someone's left behind tent!
The morning after a festival of fun can sometimes feel a little sad. Disappointed that a fun weekend has flown by so quickly and not looking forward to the reality of going home. But I am never more sad than when I leave a campsite with a temporary town’s worth of abandoned belongings and tents [...]
Read more →46 Festivals Win The Coveted Greener Festival Award
46 festivals across the UK, Europe, Australia and North America have been awarded our prestigious Greener Festival Award for their green efforts in reducing their environmental impact 2011. To achieve the Award, each festival must complete a detailed 53 part questionnaire, submit relevant information such as a carbon footprint, traffic plans and waste and recycling [...]
Read more →Greener Festival Awards update
Our 2011 Awards scheme is drawing to a close and we have received a record number of entries and reviewed and audited some fantastic festivals this year. There really have been some brilliant events – green, clean, caring and sharing, and doing more and more to promote awareness about climate change and the need to [...]
Read more →AUSTRALIAN GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS CONFIRMED!
It can’t have escaped you that the weather has been terrible in Australia in the last twelve months - so congratulations to all of our Australian A GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS 2011 for their brilliant efforts in reducing their environmental impact and spreading the green message. it has been the fourth A Greener Festival awards season in Australia and [...]
Read more →ANALYSIS SHOWS GREEN GAINS AT FESTVALS
We are now able to publish details of the annual analysis of all of the entries into the 2010 Greener Festival Awards scheme which shows just how far festivals around the World have come in adopting environmentally friendly practices. The results from festivals which include The Isle of Wight Festival, Shambala, The Glastonbury Festival, The Sunrise Celebration, [...]
Read more →OUR VERY OWN MOST PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL!
One of our three co-founders, Ben Challis, has won the ‘Most Professional Professional’ Award at the International Live Music Conference’s Gala Dinner in London on Saturday evening! The Awards, called ‘The Arthurs’ are voted for by the 1000 delegates at the ILMC from the live events industry, and this year included awards for the Montreux [...]
Read more →APPLYING FOR THE GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD 2011
A Greener Festival was set up to promote sustainable music events and environmentally friendly practices at music and arts festivals around the World and our Awards scheme is now an integral part of the global fight against climate change. The Awards are in addition to our other activities - we have our well read website, we [...]
Read more →Splendour is our first 2011 Greener Festival Award Winner!
Australia’s Splendour In the Grass is the first winner of our coveted A Greener Festival award for the 2010/2011 festival season. Moving from their previous home of Belongil Fields, to Woodfordia-Woodford Folks Festivals beautiful site – albeit for a temporary time before they make their way over to a site to call their own. Walking through [...]
Read more →RECORD NUMBER OF FESTIVALS EARN THE GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD
A further sixteen UK, North American and European festivals have been named as winners of the prestigious Greener Festival Award 2010 making a record breaking total of 47 winners in 2010. The new winners include Bonnaroo (USA). Lightning in a Bottle (USA), West Beach (USA), Osheaga Festival (Canada), Outside Lands (USA), Shambala Festival (Northants), End of the Road (Wiltshire), [...]
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