YOUROPE Promotes Environment Issues at Festivals

Aug. 5, 2010 - PRLog -- The environment is a key issue for everyone including festivals and some music fans are now opting to attend festivals based in their green credentials.

In 2006 The European Festival Association YOUROPE launched environmental guidelines for music festivals with a booklet entitled ‘Green‘n‘Clean’. This has now been supplemented by a new online tool providing festival organisers with customised environmental advice, plus a ‘Green‘n‘Clean Award’ for festivals who achieve a defined number of criteria in terms of environmental measures.

YOUROPE are pleased to announce that the following 27 Yourope members have achieved the necessary standards and have received the ‘Green‘n‘Clean Award’.

Das Fest, Germany
Festival Internacional de Benicassim, Spain
Gurtenfestival, Switzerland
Heineken Open’er Festival, Poland
Hultsfred Festival, Sweden
Ilosaarirock, Finland
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes, France
Lowlands, The Netherlands
Malmöfestivalen, Sweden
Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
OpenAir St.Gallen, Switzerland
Oxygen, Ireland
Oya Festivalen, Norway
Paléo Festival, Nyon
Pinkpop, The Nederlands
Provinssirock, Finland
Pukkelpop, Belgium
Rheinkultur, Germany
Rip Curl Festival, France
Rock Werchter, Belgium
Roskilde Festival, Denmark
Ruisrock, Finland
Slottsfiel Festivalen, Norway
S.O.S 4.8, Spain
T in the Park, Scotland
Taubertal Festival, Germany
Weekend Au Bord de L’Eau, Switzerland

In September 2009, YOUROPE co-promoted the 2nd seminar for ‘Sustainable Management’ at Bucks New University in cooperation with agreenerfestival.com, Julie’s Bicycle and Theresa Moore from Bucks New University. YOUROPE members who participate in these seminars get special discounts.

A wide range of speakers from the events industry, discussed issues such as  transport and  travel,  CO2 measurement, waste management solutions,  legislation, environmental policy and standards and long term planning. The next seminar will be held in February 2011.

“The seminars have now become an ideas and information hub for the festival and event industry. By bringing together event organisers and environmental managers from across Europe and further afield current practise can be shared and new ideas and strategies   developed.” says Teresa Moore Bucks New University.

Thomas Niebuhr, Roskilde Festival adds “The conference was very informative for me too. There is a lack of information and cooperation which the conference is starting to bridge.”

YOUROPE is also an event partner of the forthcoming Green Events Conference in Bonn which will take place from 3rd – 4th November 2010. The aim of the event is to find sustainable solutions for festivals, venues and concerts to deal with the impact they have on the environment with panels and workshops covering a wide variety of topics including: Sustainability Management, Waste Management and Green Law. For more information and to register go to the Green Meetings & Events website: http://www.green-meetings.eu


About YOUROPE:
YOUROPE was founded in November 1998. The association currently has over 60 members which are among the most well established festivals in Europe. All YOUROPE’s members are dedicated to improving the European festival scene in terms of working conditions, health and safety, music talent.

The overall aim of the association is to collaborate and share best practice, and to pinpoint areas that would benefit from a joint approach. YOUROPE is founding partner of the European Talent Exchange Program http://www.etep.nl.

Contacts:
For more information about the Green’n’Clean seminars please contact Professor Chris Kemp Executive Dean, The Faculty of Design, Media & Management Buckinghamshire New University Chris.Kemp@bucks.ac.uk

For more information about YOUROPE please contact:
Christof Huber - christof.huber@incognito.ch | +41 (0) 71 223 41 01 | http://www.yourope.org

For more information about the Green Meetings & Events please contact:
info@green-meetings.com | http://www.green-meetings.eu

For press enquiries please contact:
Nikki Wright-McNeill @ Global Publicity - nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk | +44 7957 434517

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