Chapter 6

• Greener Events are special events that continually endeavor to provide superior experiences through environmentally friendly strategies.
• Defining 'greener' involves communicating effectively with stakeholders and familiarizing with terms.
• Conservation: involves responsible use of the earth's natural resources and waste minimization.
• Education: involves promoting ethical behaviour towards energy and the environment by creating memorable event experiences.
• Education in greener events involves standard waste practices such as providing widely available and clearly labeled garbage bins, limiting the number of trash bins, and encouraging recycling.
• Environmentally Friendly Practices (EFPs) involve five steps: going paperless, turning off the lights, turning down the heat, buying greener, and using silverware.
• Precycles is an emerging strategy that promotes buying used, recycling, or recyclable products and minimizing packaging.
• Recycle is the reprocessing of used products into new products, which is greener than standard waste disposal and a key component of Three Cycles.
• Recycle is the sport or activity of riding a bicycle, the most energy efficient form of transportation ever invented.
• Pedicabs are a small 3 wheeled vehicle having a seat, pedals and handlebars in front of the operator.
• Bicycle is a common form of transportation that is environmentally friendly and can be used for greener events.
• Biofuels, solar power, hydropower, wind power, and wood are the example of greener energy.
• The hotel industry has succeeded in applying theories of development toward enhancing their sector.
• The "Green Hotels Association" offers simple cards to hang on towel racks asking guests to consider using towels more than once to conserve water.
• The greenest event is the one that doesn't happen, as no event can avoid waste, misuse natural resources, or have an environmental impact.
• Greenwash: false or misleading marketing strategy that promotes an organization unfaithfully as environmentally responsible.
• The seven event pollution are Standard waste, Recyclable waste, Biodegrable waste, Traffic, Air pollution, Land, Noise pollution.