Festivals
Artichoke: Lumiere
Artichoke’s Lumiere, the UK’s largest light festival, returned to the medieval city of Durham in December 2011. Around 80 local and international artists, lighting designers and community groups worked together to produce a series of 35 installations and projections.
Read moreAudience Travel Initiatives
Audience travel makes the largest contributions to a festival's emissions footprint. Here are some examples of greener audience travel initiatives that are bringing down travel impacts.
Read moreCar Sharing Schemes
Car sharing is becoming more popular with festival goers, as more festivals provide some form of incentive to increase car occupancy levels. Here we look at three examples of car sharing schemes popular with the festival market: Lifshare, Freewheelers and goCarShare.
Read moreBig Chill
Big Chill's diverse line-ups attract 35,000 fans every August. The festival achieved 1 star Industry Green in 2010 and is continuing a range of environmental initiatives in 2011.
Read moreFestivalbus
Keeping passengers entertained for the long journey between their home town and festival destination can be tough, but Festivalbus journeys go that extra mile for coach travel to festivals in Europe.
Read moreGlastonbury
Glastonbury is the world’s biggest single regular donor to Greenpeace, as well as being one of the world's most iconic festivals, and is now a 1 star IG certified festival working to reduce its environmental impacts.
Read moreGrassroots Festival
Grassroots takes place in July each year, and the environment is at the heart of this 'eco music festival'. Travel offsets, an Eco Village and recycling schemes are examples of their efforts to reduce their impacts and raise awareness of environmental issues with audiences.
Read moreHard Rock Calling and O2 Wireless
Live Nation produced a series of events in Hyde Park in London in summer 2008, including the multi-day festivals Hard Rock Calling and O2 Wireless.
Read moreIncredible Cup Company
The Incredible Cup Company (ICC) is the UK's leading provider of deposit-based reusable cup systems, which are twice as environmentally friendly as any other cup system.
Read moreIsle of Wight Music Festival
Working with Eco Action Partnership, the Isle of Wight festival is tackling it's environmental impacts through audience campaigns and practical initiatives. In 2010 the Festival achieved a reduction in total emissions of 22%.
Read moreIsle of White Festival: Bee Campaigns
Eco Action Partnership and the Isle of Wight Festival have brought six new bee species to the island that are breeding successfully on their 'Field of Hope, through their campaigns 'Give Bees a Chance' and 'Let it Bee'.
Read moreLatitude
Latitude Festival, produced by Festival Republic, is located in the scenic landscapes of Henham Park, Suffolk. Far away from most direct public transport links, Festival Republic provide extensive information and ideas to enable festival-goers to access the event.
Read moreLeeds
Leeds Festival is a major UK music festival drawing crowds of up to 85,000 people each August. It is 1 star Industry Green certified and achieved 18% reduction in waste emissions in 2010, among other environmental initiatives.
Read moreLovebox
Held in London’s oldest public park in Tower Hamlets every July, Lovebox managed to recude its emissions by 38% from 2009 to 2010, despite almost doubling ticket sales.
Read moreManchester International Festival (MIF)
MIF is a member of the Manchester Cultural Leaders' Environmental Forum and is committed to sustainabiilty across its office and festival operations. It was the first festival to be independently certified BS8901, and is the recipient of A Greener Festival award.
Read moreMelt!
The festival organisers have made huge steps forward in greening their activities, including providing more environmentally friendly transport for their ticket holders.
Read moreReading Festival
Festival Republic's Reading Festival attracts over 85,000 fans a year to it's city-centre location, and is certified 1 star Industry Green for it's efforts to measure and manage environmental impacts.
Read moreShambala festival
Set in a picturesque country park in Northamptonshire, Shambala Festival has always made Herculean efforts to minimise its impact on the environment, becoming the first festival to receive 3 star Industry Green!
Read moreSonisphere, Knebworth Park
Set in the quiet countryside of Knebworth, Sonisphere is the world’s largest touring festival, run by Kilimanjaro Live, aiming to reduce total relative emissions by 10% over the next three years.
Read moreSunrise
Sunrise Celebration is a festival organised around the values of sustainability and permaculture, and the organisers have implemented a range of low-carbon initiatives which support their green credentials.
Read moreT in the Park
Scotland's T in The Park Festival promotes a range of public transport and travel links to their rural location in Balado, Kinross-Shire. T in The Park also carbon offset a range of festival impacts, including the emissions generated by festival audience travel.
Read moreTruck Festival
Truck reduced emissions from energy use per audience day by 10% from 2009 to 2010 and are working to reduce this further - among other initiatives offering a free drink to those cycling to the event!
Read moreWood festival
Wood’s audience capacity is kept low to allow experimentation with new, low impact ways of running a festival - the event is run on renewable power and promotes ecologically friendly living with composting toilets, showers heated by wood-burning stove and a solar-powered stage.
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