The Mosaic team is feeling pretty excited, because after months of preparation, we are delivering our first eco friendly event this week.
We have been working with local sustainable business expert Anthony Day, from Cyber Associates and Louise Hawson from Groundwork for four months to find ways to minimise any environmental impact the Local Authority Research Intelligence Agency (LARIA) annual conference could have as it takes place at the University of York.
We will continue to use Anthony and Louise’s expertise and guidance in the coming months to ensure that all our future events are sustainable whilst also working towards the new industry standard for sustainable event management systems, the BS8901. The standard was introduced by the government ahead of next year’s London Olympics to create a strategy to cope with the mind-boggling environmental issues caused by large-scale events.
Many conferences and large events can have numerous environmental implications. Such events can result in bags of landfill waste, large energy consumption and a staggering carbon footprint; not to mention left-over water bottles and delegate packs as well as high carbon emissions created by hundreds of delegates.
For the LARIA conference I have been working with the venue addressing all of these areas of concern. Where possible, the event is using renewable energy and food has been sourced locally or fair-trade.
Delegate packs have been printed on recycled paper and conference waste will be recycled and not sent to landfill. What’s more delegates were encouraged to travel to the venue by public transport and we also provided an online service (through website liftshare.com) to allow delegates travelling from the same area to car share. There are lots of other ways in which an event can be made more eco friendly; by re-using badge holders and using the auditorium screen for promoting event logos and brands instead of printed banners, for example.
The LARIA conference will be acting as our pilot event as Mosaic prepares to go green and I will be reporting back on how we got on in a later blog.
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