*One Simple Change TODAY*

Signage - Your ONE simple change for today is (for planners) ask for and/or (for printers) make a policy that all Signage materials must be recyclable.

I would NEVER advocate for less signage - so that means we need to be smart about the qualities of all our helpful signs. As with all materials it is part of the "know how every item exits the event" policy, in this case recycle is superior to landfill.

Benefits:

-Recycling is a better option than Landfill

-Making 100% of materials recyclable and communicating that to all teams (planning/strike, venue, client) reduces confusion and extra management of supplies during strike

-You never have to worry about guests or staff asking "where does this go?" again and get to confidently tell your client and attendees that you are a Leader in recycling event materials.

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The next evolution of event planning is cooperative sustainability! Have you heard of events sharing a carpet install?

This week I talk about maximizing your environmental and economic sustainability by collaborating with your venue and the events before and after yours to preserve things like carpet installs, expensive tech rentals/deliveries, and other drop off/pick-up decor.

You could wind up with big discounts, reduced waste, a great report for your event footprint, and more collaborators in your network! How have you made your supplies more sustainable through sharing?

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This is a conversational episode in which Alycia is talking through some of the communication failures of the Sustainability movement and within event professional education.

She covers:

• Why don't we talk about Sustainability more openly?
• Should event prof educational events be demonstrating instead of teaching?
• How do we make sure teams have all the same knowledge, expectations, and mandates all the way down our organizations?
• What is the source of the implementation gap between Sustainability education and Sustainable Events?

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To engage with Positive+Impact Event Consulting to make your Event Business and Events you work on more sustainable visit AlyciaDrube.com

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Get the overview on the Events Industry Council certification that I earned before I started Positive+Impact Event Consulting - Sustainable Event Professional Certification (SEPC)

https://eventscouncil.org/Sustainability/SEPC

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To engage with Positive+Impact Event Consulting to make your Event Business and Events you work on more sustainable visit AlyciaDrube.com

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Looking for a simple method to improve your sustainability metrics (in any Pillar: environmental, social/community, personal health, economic) that doesn't change your workload? Consider what The Sound Hotel in Seattle did with their Cocktails for a Cause. By doing a charitable donation profit share they:

1) Do good in the community

2) Let consumers know their company values by which charities they feature

3) Get great content for their social media - rotating menu item!

4) Encourage repeat business from locals to support the new cause each month

If you were to try something like this in your business it might look like: Pledging with 1% For the Planet {https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/} doing a similar monthly or annual profit % donation, pledge a flat amount or percent per contract, offer employees paid hours to donate their time, donate your time on chariable boards, feature a cause for education in your business communications, donate in-kind services to a charity as a content partnership, or something completely unique!

Remember, whether you're supplimenting what your company already does, showcasing a goal that means a lot to you from the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or using it as an offset for an area that your business doesn't normally effect or struggles to improve, charitable donations can be a GREAT way for wins all around.

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To engage with Positive+Impact Event Consulting to make your Event Business and Events you work on more sustainable visit AlyciaDrube.com

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We often think Entertainment is a self-contained element of events, the qualities are predetermined but I say NO, let's use the 4 Pillar approach to consider how our entertainment choices can be improved from an environmental, social/community, personal health/wellbeing, and economic vantage point.

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To engage with Positive+Impact Event Consulting to make your Event Business and Events you work on more sustainable visit AlyciaDrube.com

If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast on your podcast app of choice check out the landing page: https://shows.acast.com/sustainable-events-dog-walk-podcast

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In this episode I do a bit of a blinded audit on an event I visited last week. Rather than an episode of solutions it's an episode of reviewing an event and asking questions.

Questions like: Who needs to be responsible for making better decisions? How does chain of custody change waste management? Do we need to change the expectations of clients or planners? How can planners be sure to offer more sustainable plans for their events?

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To engage with Positive+Impact Event Consulting to make your Event Business and Events you work on more sustainable visit AlyciaDrube.com

If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast on your podcast app of choice check out the landing page: https://shows.acast.com/sustainable-events-dog-walk-podcast

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When you feel overwhelmed that the systems you work within can't handle the beautifully sustainable plan you've designed, A) you're not wrong or crazy, that is a real problem and it sucks; B) don't give up, send up the smoke signals that show the powers-that-be where the weaknesses are in our local systems. Remember events are invisible to the outside world, so regulating for us and solving our problems is hard. The bureaucrats and the government agencies need problems to be persistent and prolonged before they get addressed so we need to start documenting what doesn't work and letting them know. This applies to all 4 Pillars: environmental, social/community, personal health, and economic. Whether a law, an expense, a penalty, or simply the lack or solution or service is the reason we have to tell someone who can make an impact.

Whether it is your city council, mayor, health department, governor, state departments, or waste management here is an easy template you can keep in your email to send as soon as you run into a problem. Want the problem to seem more urgent? Have 3 friends send similar complaints from their businesses!

Here is your Email Template:

Dear [whoever I'm writing to],

I am an event planner, I work on community and corporate events, between 100 and 20,000 attendees large, depending on the event. I'm currently running into a problem with [X]. The demand from the community and the best course of action would be to [Y] but I cannot, because of [Z]. I feel due to the demand by the community, it's important that you know that this gap exists.

Thank you for your consideration. Feel free to reach out to me if you need clarification.

Sincerely,

[Me]

[Business Name]

[Address to show I'm in their constituency - or location of your event if that is more pertinent]

And sorry if you end up an advisor to government committees for people such a contributing member of your community! I told you already, you're smarter and probably better than lots of people out there.

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To engage with Positive+Impact Event Consulting to make your Event Business and Events you work on more sustainable visit AlyciaDrube.com

If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast on your podcast app of choice check out the landing page: https://shows.acast.com/sustainable-events-dog-walk-podcast

Or copy and paste: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/673509b204b5d35af46eb38a

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