Green Your Tour
These recommendations have been summarised from our most recent touring research recommendations, available in Moving Arts: Managing The Carbon Impacts of our Touring Vol. 3 Theatres
1. Use a Green Rider
Use the Julie’s Bicycle Green Rider or include a sustainability clause in your existing rider.
2. Use green venues
Choose venues and/or festivals with good environmental credentials. If you’ve already picked your tour venues and they’re not on our Green Database, ask to see their environmental policy, and if they don’t have one, ask why. You can also put them in touch with us.
- Search our Green Database for venues taking their environmental commitment seriously
- Read our Communicating with Audiences Practical Guide
3. Measure your impacts
Measure the potential and/or actual carbon footprint of your tour with our free IG Tool carbon calculators for touring.
4. Choose sustainable merchandise
Choose merchandise products that have strong social and environmental credentials.
- Read our Sustsinable Merchandise Practical Guide
- Search for sustainable merchandise suppliers on our Green Database
5. Greener tour travel
If your artists are travelling from abroad steer clear of private jets and offset any flights.
Minimise the tour entourage as far as possible, and be economical with the tour transport.
Freight only essential production elements and try to source set materials and equipment locally where possible.
- For travel logistics companies and taxi services who are going green too, see our Green Database
- Read more in our Touring Practocal Guide
6. Engage your audiences
Choose a site with good public transport links and/or provide bus services to and from your venue around specific performance times. Incentives for coach and train travel and car sharing schemes are all good ways to bring down your audience travel footprint. Make this information easy to find through the website(s) promoting your festival and any marketing material.
Communicate environmental actions you’d like your audience to make, for example, incentivising the reuse of drinks cups and encouraging people to recycle.
