organizing of accompanying events with eco-friendly
profile - workshops, speeches, discussions, screenings, meetings with experts,
lectures, etc. - the culture has great power, education through the
participation of recipients has the greatest potential for festivals to
introduce changes
spreading flower bombs (they contain seeds, for
example, of wild herbs, and they can be scattered in random places where plants
have a chance to grow and thus propagate biodiversity and valiant pollinators)
making bags/backpacks from recycled materials, e.g.
banners
implementing festival bug or insect houses
introducing fruit/vegetable packs prepared in
cooperation with local producers, e.g. eco-friendly “parsley” fairs,
initiatives aimed at reducing food waste (e.g. Too Good To Go - they are already
huge and probably expensive, but there are smaller initiatives, too, that work
on a similar principle) → e.g. preparing several sets of food to be handed over,
allocating them by a "less-waste partner" and handing them over to
the festival so that festival guests or the audience could choose from them and
decide to buy, for example, a package of "bad-looking" parsley, which
will not sell in a supermarket
limiting or resigning from some prints - programs,
catalogs, posters, leaflets
using lanyards and badges (generally any available resources,
as much as possible) from previous editions e.g. having a set of "neutral lanyards"
to be used in the future regardless of the edition’s visual identification, or using
recycled lanyards - those that have been left over from the previous edition (this
will make the event more colorful and environmentally friendly)
using vegetarian/vegan catering only
providing access to drinking water and encouraging
audience members to bring their own reusable water bottles
offsetting events - calculating the carbon footprint
of the event and determining actions that would neutralize it - e.g. by
planting trees (you can also introduce voluntary donations for this purpose,
e.g. if someone arrives at the festival by plane from outside Poland, s/he is
proposed to donate xPLN, if s/he comes from Poland it is xPLN, etc. – in this
case, the carbon footprint of the trip can also be calculated)
encouraging participants to use public transport
using the services of local suppliers
economic and ecological planning of transportation and
other logistics of all festival activities
creating shared refrigerators, or freedges - if people
participating in the event have some provisions that they will not consume,
they can leave it in the refrigerator and someone else can take it – as an
alternative to throwing it away
preparing an appropriate number of litter bins/garbage
discharge points
