Full Conference Report 2014
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Laura van de Voort is co-founder of 'Green Events Nederland', the Dutch platform for making events and festivals more sustainable. http://www.greeneventsnederland.nl http://extrema-outdoor.com/ http://www.solarweekend.com/nl/blo g Full Conference Report 2014 You can download this report here. http://www.green-events-germany.eu/Full_Conference_Report_2014.75.0.html GreenEvents Europe 2014 is an event of: Sounds For Nature Foundation e.V. and BN*PD - Bonn Promotion Dept. - Funk & Schmidt GbR is funded by: This report is published by: Sounds For Nature Foundation e.V. Auguststr. 18 53229 Bonn www.soundsfornature.eu Compilation and layout: Heike Hennig-Schmidt Acknowledgement: We thank Stefanie Thomas (student of Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation, Cologne) for assisting with this report and taking pictures during GreenEvents Europe 2014. We are grateful to Ilka Decker, Juliane Kemen, Daniela Korden, Isabel Naguib (students of Bonn University), Jas Klewinghaus (Institute for Music Osnabrück), Anja Müller (Kiel University) and Laura Undisz (Humboldt University, Berlin) for taking minutes during the conference. Thanks go to Rebecca Elisabeth Lange, Daniela Korden, Ilka Decker, Julia Schächtele, Sina Jakobs (Bonn University) and Judith Mattes (Ju & me, Bonn) for their assistance in the Culinary Upcycling activities. 2 Content GreenEvents Opening 5 Welcome Holger Jan Schmidt (Sounds for Nature, GER) 5 Welcome address Jürgen Nimptsch (Mayor of the city Bonn, GER ) 6 Welcome address Wilson Budde-Iser (Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung NRW et al. GER) 6 Welcome address Teresa Moore and Fruzsina Szép (GO Group / Yourope, UK / HUN / GER) 7 Key note Valentin Thurn (director of the multi-awarded documentary "Taste the waste") 7 The Show Must Go On 9 Chris Johnson (Powerful Thinking, UK, host) 9 Chiara Badiali (Julie's Bicycle, UK) 9 Laura van de Voort (Extrema / Green Events Nederland, NL) 10 Sebastian Fleiter (The Electric Hotel, GER) 10 FoodPrints 12 Sabine Funk (GreenEvents Europe / Sounds For Nature, GER , host) 12 Tanja Dräger de Teran (WWF, GER) 12 Jan Christian Polanía Giese (THEMA1, GER) 13 Sustainable Event Design 15 Fabian Schulte-Terboven (IBIT GmbH, GER, host) 15 Manuel Großmann (Service Design Berlin, GER) 15 Andre Balaz (Charged Mind, SLV) / Hendrik Landwehr (Mach dich Bunt, GER) 17 Matthias Kulcke (HafenCity University / TU Hamburg-Harburg, GER) 19 Food, Health & Body 21 Sabine Funk (GreenEvents Europe / Sounds For Nature, GER, host) 21 Martin Svitek (Karmakitchen, GER) 21 Professor Peter Stehle (Uni Bonn, GER) 22 Food Waste 24 Nadja Flohr-Spence, WWF, GER, host) 24 Valentin Thurn (Director of "Taste the Waste", GER) 25 Nicole Klaski (foodsharing e.V., GER) 27 The attitude - behaviour gap 29 Teresa Moore, Bucks New University, UK, host) 29 Laura van de Voort (Extrema / Green Events Nederland, NL) 30 Sophia Becker (University of Stuttgart, GER) 31 Dunja Karabaic (bureau gruen, GER) 33 GreenEvents Europe 2014 www.green-events-germany.eu 3 Content Mobility Session 35 Martijn Hulshof, MovendiuM, NL, host) 35 Helen Schepers (KonzertKultour, GER) 36 Christof Hertel (Evangelischer Kirchentag, GER) 37 Michael Schramek (EcoLibro, GER) 38 The Elephant Round – Let's talk about responsibility 40 Holger Jan Schmidt (GreenEvents Europe/Sounds For Nature, GER, host) and Sebastian Fleiter (The Electric Hotel, GER, host) Ruud Berends (Eurosonic Noorderslag, NL) Fruzsina Szép (Yourope & Berlin Festival, HUN / GER) Chiara Badiali (Julie's Bicycle, UK) Social impact 45 Claire O'Neill, A Greener Festival / AIF, UK, host) 45 Vladimir Vodalov (EXIT Festival, SER) 45 Mikkel Sander (Roskilde Festival, DK) 47 Nienke Bassle (10.000 hours / ID&T, NL) 49 Post consumerist economy 52 Hosted by: Teresa Moore (Bucks New University, UK) & Friederike Behr (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, GER) 52 Sustainability in extreme situations 55 Fabian Schulte-Terboven (IBIT GmbH, GER, host) 55 Jochen Bader (Morethanshelters, GER) 55 Greener Touring 58 Holger Jan Schmidt (GreenEvents Europe/Sounds For Nature, GER, host) and Lena Buck (Green Music Initiative / THEMA 1, GER, host) 58 Volker May, IMMF / FZW Dortmund, GER 59 Danny Simons, Grand Hotel Van Cleef, GER 59 Jutta Landkotsch, Dein Speisesalon, GER 60 Food, drinks and Rock'n'Roll 63 Claire O'Neill (A Greener Festival / AIF, UK, host) 63 Marie Sabot (We Love Green, FRA) 63 Mikkel Sander (Roskilde Festival, DK) 64 Stephanie Weigel (Tollwood Festival, GER) 65 Greener Arena 68 Lena Buck (Green Music Initiative, GER, host) 68 Sybil Franke (Velomax Berlin Hallenbetriebs GmbH, GER) 68 Verena Müller (Energieagentur NRW, GER) 70 Culinary UPcycling 72 Martin Svitek (Karmakitchen, GER, host) Pre-conference workshop: Food & Events 73 Holger Jan Schmidt (GreenEvents Europe/Sounds For Nature, GER, host) Manuel Großmann (Service Design Berlin, GER, host) Die große Kartoffelshow 75 GreenEvents Europe 2014 www.green-events-germany.eu 4 Session: GreenEvents Opening Host: Holger Jan Schmidt, GreenEvents Europe, GER Welcome Holger Jan Schmidt (GreenEvents Europe, GER) Welcome address Jürgen Nimptsch (Mayor of the City Bonn, GER) Welcome address Wilson Budde-Iser (Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung NRW et al., GER) Welcome address Teresa Moore and Fruzsina Szép (GO Group / Yourope, UK / HUN / GER) Key note Valentin Thurn (director of the multi-awarded documentary "Taste the waste", GER) Welcome Holger Jan Schmidt (Sounds for Nature, GER) Welcome Holger Schmidt gives a warm welcome to nearly 160 participants of GreenEvents Europe 2014 (GEE 2014), the 5th international conference for sustainability in the live music and events industry. The number of attendants has grown again compared to previous years. Holger Jan Schmidt is founder of Green Events is a meeting to discuss sustainability issues in the GreenEvents Europe and Board events industry, to exchange ideas and experiences with people who member of Sounds For Nature are inspired and who are inspiring. Foundation e.V. 25 years ago, Holger started organising festivals with a local http://soundsfornature.eu/, musician club, and collaborated with the person in charge of nature www.go-group.org/ conservation in the city of Bonn. Rheinkultur, the admission-free festival, was a regular highlight in the city‘s events calendar, and Holger eventually used the experience he gained with these activities to organize the first Green Events Conference in 2010. Learning about how to envision the future and the bigger picture was part oft this process. Thanks to the partners of GreenEvents Europe 2014 Sounds For Nature Foundation e.V. is very grateful to all partners of GreenEvents Europe 2014. Without their help the conference would not have been possible to organize. This, in particular, applies to the Foundation for Environment and Development North Rheine-Westphalia (Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung Nordrhein-Westfalen) who is funding GreenEvents Europe 2014. Other supporting partners are Yourope (The European Festival Association), Go Group (Green Operations Europe), IBIT GmbH, musikwoche, Bucks University, green music initiative and Bundesamt für Naturschutz. Innovations GEE 2014 keeps what has proven successful but provides some innovations. o GEE 2014 puts the focus on Food and Beverages (“Food, Drinks and Rock’n’Roll”) but also discusses other important sustainability issues. o The half-day pre-conference workshop “Food & Events” focused on the question why food and beverage are an essential issue. The participants identified problems and worked out solutions on food and events with the help of Design Thinking - a method of creative problem solving. o GEE 2014 involves young people into the sustainability issue of events with Emphasis on GreenEvents Europe 2014 www.green-events-germany.eu 5 Session: GreenEvents Opening Host: Holger Jan Schmidt, GreenEvents Europe, GER student participation o Culinary UPcycling hosted by karmakitchen, assisted by student and with kind support of SODEXO. Between-conference activities Go Group workshops 2013 in Vienna (AU), Roskilde (DK), Novi Sad (SR) Conference contributions 2014: Eurosonic Norderslag Groningen (NL), Amsterdam Dance Event / ADE Green (NL), GreenEvents & Innovations, London (UK) Green Operations Award 2013 Greener Arena Network (esp. September workshop at o2 Berlin, GER) Supporting Initiatives: „ Love your tent“ at various festivals Seminar at Bucks New University (UK), GreenEvents Europe’s 2014 slogan Of course I care about the future – I intend to spend the rest of my life there. (Mark Twain) Welcome address Jürgen Nimptsch (Mayor of the City Bonn, GER) Jürgen Nimptsch sees Bonn as an ideal place for the GreenEvents Europe conference: more than 1000 persons are working at the United Nations or NGO’s here and are involved in sustainability. Bonn is a Jürgen Nimptsch was elected Mayor sustainability hub, and conferences around themes of Sustainability and of Bonn in August 2009. Within this Festivals are bringing together scientists, journalists, and specialists from capacity, he also acts as the Vice- Chair of World Mayors Council on all parts of life. Mentioning the ‚special Bonn spirit‘, Nimptsch remarks Climate Change. that two previous Green Events Europe conferences have been http://www.bonn.de/ supported by the City of Bonn through the European Regional Development Fund. He wishes the conference every success in establishing greener and more sustainable events. Welcome address Wilson Budde-Iser (Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung NRW