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It’s Time: Event Audiences Want Greener Events<\/h4>\nIt’s Time: Event Audiences Want Greener Events<\/h4>\n74% of respondents to survey of UK festival-goers “agreed or strongly agreed that all festivals should implement environmentally friendly practices.”\u00a091% indicated that\u00a0“organisers should be responsible\u00a0for minimising any damaging effects that a festival may have.”<\/p>\n
Respondents also positively favored participation in the recycling and composting process;\u00a081% “agreed or strongly agreed that if provided with separate bins they would separate their rubbish.”<\/p>\n
“57% of festival-goers agree or strongly agree that re-usable crockery and cutlery should be used instead of disposables at festivals.”\u00a0Some of the write-in comments “suggested that recyclable\/bio-degradable disposables would be better.” [1]<\/p>\n
2\/3 of respondents\u00a0to a UK survey of festival organizers indicated that their events “had an environmental policy or implemented some kind of environmentally friendly practices.” [1]<\/p>\n
According to a LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability Organization) study conducted by the National Marketing Institute (NMI\/2003-2006),\u00a0more than 139 million Americans are interested or active in the green living sector in 2006, more than doubling from 68 million in 2003.<\/strong> Consumer spending in the this market sector is $230 billion, split across five categories, including: Ecological Lifestyles ($81 billion), Sustainable Economy ($75 billion), Alternative Healthcare ($31 billion), Healthy Living ($28 billion), and Personal Development ($11 billion). [3]<\/p>\n “Investors are seeing better returns with socially responsible investing,” says Joe Keefe, senior advisor for strategic social policy at The Calvert Group in Bethesda, Md. According to a recent Harris poll commissioned by Calvert,\u00a084 percent of investors “are more likely to invest in a mutual fund if it engages in ethical business practices in its operations and reporting,”<\/strong>\u00a0a statistic that reflects “a seismic shift in public sentiment,” Keefe says. [2]<\/p>\n “All the way across the board, there are stories and examples that this is a good idea,” says Christina Page, a member of the Commercial & Industrial Services team at the Snowmass, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).\u00a0“It is possible to be both ecologically sustainable and economically profitable.”\u00a0<\/strong>[2]<\/p>\n Amy Domini, founder and CEO of New York City-based Domini Social Investments, says the SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) trend is more clearly seen in how many companies now publish sustainability reports or social responsibility reports.\u00a0Nearly half of the S&P 500 now does so.\u00a0[2]<\/p>\n Sources:<\/strong> It’s Time: Event Audiences Want Greener Events 74% of respondents to survey of UK festival-goers “agreed or strongly agreed that all festivals should implement environmentally friendly practices.”\u00a091% indicated that\u00a0“organisers should be responsible\u00a0for minimising any damaging effects that a festival may…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[151,12,764,766,768,15,20,25,759,762,763,767,765,24],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts-parties-festivals","tag-activism","tag-community-building","tag-compost","tag-environment","tag-ethical-business-practices","tag-events","tag-festivals","tag-green-events","tag-greening","tag-impact-reduction","tag-recycling","tag-social-responsibility","tag-statistics","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Socially Responsible Investments Indicate Growing Public Interest<\/h4>\n
Ecological Sustainability Is Profitable<\/h4>\n
Sustainability Reporting Increases Accountability and Positive Public Image<\/h4>\n
\n[1] Should UK Music Festival Organisers Implement Environmentally Friendly Practices into Event Management? – A Survey of Festival-Goers and Event Organisers – A Greener Festival, UK – 2006 – www.agreenerfestival.com<\/a>
\n[2] Who’s Changing Whom? The LOHAS marketplace is fundamentally changing the structure of the American economy – and not the other way around – By Eric Peterson – www.lohas.com\/journal\/changing.html<\/a> – 2007
\n[3] Understanding the LOHAS Market: A Focus on Corporate Social Responsibility – National Marketing Institute (NMI\/2003-2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"