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More green festivals commended
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 9 March 2015
Another batch of A Greener Festival awards were announced at the Green Events & Innovations conference which took place alongside ILMC last Thursday.
As much previously reported, these go to events that meet all kinds of eco-friendly criteria, helping punters separate the green festivals from those hell bent on bringing about the premature demise of this Planet Earth and humanity’s presence on it. Yeah, think about that while you’re singing along to Sam Smith.
And the latest batch of 2014 festivals getting the A Greener Festival honour are…
Outstanding: Boom Festival (Portugal).
Highly Commended: Glastonbury Festival (UK); Heart of Glass, Heart of Gold (France); Rocking the Daisies (South Africa).
Commended: BBC Proms in the Park (UK), BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park (UK), End of The Road Festival (UK), Greenbelt Festival (UK), Hadra Trance Festival VII (France).
Commenting on this latest batch, Awards Director Helen Innes told reporters: “The whole team at A Greener Festival are very proud of the achievements from all of our 46 winners this year and we would like to thank them all for their continued support for sustainability at events, and also for the campaigns we are working on such as our re-forestation project in Scotland, Festival Wood, and the ‘Love Your Tent’ campaign to reduce campsite waste – and for supporting each other by sharing achievements and successes globally”.
CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke led a panel discussion at last week’s GEI conference on the way festivals communicate their green credentials, and you can read a report on that topic in the next edition of the CMU Trends Report, sent to all premium CMU subscribers.
