In it's fifth year, The Greener Festival Awards scheme recognises and rewards festivals who have made significant steps in reducing their environmental impact.
To enter the Awards scheme a Festival needs to submit the Self Assessment along with all relevant supporting documentation. The Festival will then be ‘environmentally audited’ by an independent assessor and this Report along with your self assessment and supporting documents will form the basis of the Award Committee’s award.
Additional supporting documentation:
Event organisers will be required to supply waste, water, recycling and power use figures post event wherever available. These must be supplied within deadline to support the application and enable the board to allocate award scores. Other supporting documents might include an Environmental Policy, Environmental Impact Report, a travel and transport policy, an office policy and a ‘Carbon Footprint’ or other report measuring greenhouse gas emissions. They support the Julies Bicycle tools for measuring and reporting Greenhouse gas emissions (www.juliesbicycle.com ). We have also been looking at the tools developed by the Sustainable Events Alliance and can potentially accept these as independent evidence of good practice.
The Awards:
The Australian Awards are the first to be announced each year, usually in March or April. They then try and have two further Committee meetings, one to look at UK, European and North American applications from the first half of the year (May, June, July) and then a final meeting in late September for the final festivals from the UK, North America and Europe which take place in August and September.
http://www.agreenerfestival.com/#AGFA2010Winners
