Day 1, 23 April 2012 “Great examples & good practise” | Holger Schmidt & Jacob Bilabel Case study: Sziget Festival | Fruzsina Szep Case study: Roskilde “Green Footsteps” | Marie A. Rogvi Communication & case study: RhEINKULTUR “GreenRocks” | Holger Jan Schmidt Green’N’Clean Festival of the year: Melt! Festival | Lucile Barras [...]
The second GO Group workshop in Budapest last week was a nice success. Many thanks to all the participants and speakers who shared their experience and enthusiasm in finding good solutions for more sustainable festivals! And thanks to Sziget for being a wonderful host. For detailed information check out the documentation of the event:
Budapest | 23-24 April 2012 GO Group went east with its second international workshop. After the successful debut in Amsterdam in May 2011 with 35 international participants, Green Operations Europe headed to Budapest for a second edition on event sustainability with great presentations, loads of information and best practise exchange. In four intense sessions on [...]
GO Group sessions at Europe’s most important conference for live music industry Eurosonic/Noorderslag (Groningen | 12-14 January 2012) was looked up by more than 3100 experts from 41 countries. GO Group hosted a panel a day on green issues to give the topic the signification it deserves in the conference’s programme. Teresa Moore (Head of [...]
GO Group initiatives for 2012 After a successful 2011 with the first 2-day workshop in Amsterdam and major contributions to the 2nd GreenEvents Europe Conference the GO Group (Green Operations Europe), co-initiated by Yourope, the European festival association is moving forward in 2012 with more projects related to sustainability in the festival and event business. [...]
The 2nd international GreenEvents Europe Conference in Bonn held on 2-3 November 2011 was another huge success with more than 100 German and international guests joining to discuss sustainability and environmental protection at (major) events. For the second time members of the international live music industry and related suppliers, scientists and Initiatives came to Bonn [...]
Programme and Report 1st_GO_Group_Workshop – Invitation and Programme 1st GO Group Workshop – Report Presentations – Energy 1st GO Group – Teresa Moore and Jacob Bilabel – Energy 1st GO Group – Lucile Barras – Green Club Index 1st GO Group – Emma Barfod – Connecting to the Power Grid 1st GO Group – [...]
Agenda The first 2-day GO Group workshop for Sustainable Festivals & Events focussed on energy related issues (day 1) and effective communication tools (day 2). Day 1, 23 May 2011 11:00 – 18:00 – Energy On Day 1, we discussed best practise cases on how to overcome dirty and expensive generators, how to apply renewable energy sources practically and how [...]
GO stands for Green Operations. GO Group is an independent, pan European and cross industry think-tank to inspire people in the music festival and events industry to run their operations greener and smarter. It was initiated by the Green Music Initiative (GMI) and our friends at Bucks University (Teresa Moore), GreenEvents Conference (Holger Jan Schmidt) [...]
Links http://www.bucks.ac.uk/ http://www.green-events-germany.eu/ http://www.greenmusicinitiative.de/ http://yourope.org/ http://www.berlinfestival.de http://www.meltfestival.de/ http://www.oyafestivalen.com/ http://www.id-t.com/