In this month's Vision: 2025 newsletter: 

• Industry Green Leader Q&A with Sarah Tew, Sustainability Lead at We Group
• Guest Blog: Becky Young, Head of Ops & Community, shares three years of EarthPercent's impacts 
• Blog: Key points from Vision: 2025 on MUTA conference's Sustainable Structures panel 
• Powerful Thinking Blog: Bi-directional EV charging - how cars could power events. 
• Supplier Spotlight: Sustainable supply journeys with Arena Group
• Resource Spotlight: Essential Resources for busy #eventprofs
• Supplier Spotlight: Big Green Coach provides 4th year of sustainable travel for Tottenham Hotspur
• Resource Spotlight: Video replay from Sustainable Event Summit #SES23: 'Getting the Message Across" Panel colab on creative climate comms with Music Declares Emergency
• Supplier Spotlight: Sustainable Cabe Ties anyone? StageSet.Shop is an online store offering verified sustainable alternatives for event essentials 
• Future Festival Tools Case Study: Terraforma Festival, Italy
• Fusion Festivals Case Study: Ruisrock, Finland
• Selected news, jobs, events, and comments from across the live events industry and beyond.

Get in touch with your questions and suggestions at info@vision2025.org.uk

Sarah Tew leads on environmental sustainability at We Group and is committed to establishing a sustainable business model which ensures the agency can continue to deliver world-class events and experiences. She recently joined the Vision: 2025 Steering Group adding her voice to shaping climate action for the live events industry. Read Sarah's answers to our monthly Green Leaders Q&A HERE

In February, we spoke to Zofia Plonczak at Junction 2 Festival: Read Zofia's answers here. 

This month we hear from Becky Young, Head of Ops & Community at EarthPercent, about how the charity works with the Music Industry to harness the power of music in service to our planet, what they have achieved since being founded by Brian Eno three years ago, their plans for the future and how festivals can get involved. Read the blog here. 

Vision: 2025 joined the MUTA Member’s Day, March 6th, at The Belfry, contributing a presentation and joining a panel discussion on ‘What Temporary Structures Companies Can Do’ to improve sustainability.

MUTA general manager Joe Chalk hosted the panel and was joined by Graham Brown representing Vision: 2025, Michael Darby of Serge Ferrari Group, Joely Sockett from Arena Group and Jenna Ackerley from Events Under Canvas. Read the take home points from the panel in this blog by Graham Brown. 

Need answers to your event sustainability questions in a hurry?

The Vision: 2025 Resource Hub is always being updated with the latest research in how to address events’ environmental impacts. We want to keep the focus broad and current but we realise that event sustainability professionals often have limited time and need to get the info fast to make the right decisions – so we’ve created a list of our top resources in each category. Search Vision: 2025's Top Resources HERE

Vision: 2025's Sustainable Events Summit 2023 sessions are available to watch on catch-up.

The latest panel available is "Getting the Message Across" which ran in collaboration with Music Declares Emergency and focused on creative climate communication: Chair, Lewis Jamieson (Music Declares Emergency) welcomed guests, Betsy Reed (The Bulb), Hannah Cox (Betternotstop) and Climate Live’s Frances Fox.  The panel explored mainstreaming climate awareness through cultural engagement; good & bad climate messaging and the potential for the music industry to deliver gains beyond the sector. Watch the video

Each month we feature a case study from the FUSION – Festivals as Social Innovation Incubators project. This month we travel to Finland to explore social innovation project "Ruissiraati," which takes place at Ruisrock, a 35,000-daily-capacity, three-day camping festival which takes place in Ruissalo National Park. 

Ruissiraati (or the Ruisrock Jury) is a panel of 16–24-year olds who join workshops throughout the festival on topics related to festival production. The aim is to get a Gen Z point of view and create new ideas with them in mind. Ruissiraati members then join more workshops in the inter-festival period during the autumn to help shape the next event. Read the case study on the Fusion Website. 

Terraforma Festival (Italy, 3 day camping with 3,000 daily capacity), set in the centuries-old and now abandoned estate estate of Villa Arconati.

Terraforma is an international festival of experimental music oriented towards sustainability and guided by core values of care and respect for both people and the environment. From its inception, Terraforma has developed a sustainability strategy focused on reforestation, architecture and management to catalyse regenerative processes at Villa Arconati. Read the full case study on the Future Festival Tools website. 

Our selected news picks from across the Live Events Industry and beyond, including jobs, events, blogs, reports, and what the Vision: 2025 team has been watching, listening to, and reading this month:

• Power Logistics at Extreme E: video showing the hybrid approach to energy that Power Logistics installed for Extreme E, with a relocatable micro-grid HERE
• Murmur, a new music, arts and environmental charity, launched March 19 with a mission to “transform these industries from the inside out” - in Music Week HERE 
• ESNS sustainability coordinator and former festival producer Rob van Wegen, calls on Europe’s myriad sustainability bodies to collaborate in Access All Areas HERE 
• New sustainability report shares behind the scenes success and learnings ahead of IMEX Frankfurt 2024, in Event Industry News HERE
• PhD opportunity with Tyndall Centre for Super Low Carbon Music HERE
• Are carbon removed events the future? Article in Access All Areas HERE
• British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA) request for UK-based arts festival to complete research survey for their 'Festivals Mean Business' campaign HERE
• Earthshot Prize winning sustainable packaging provider Notpla to provide seaweed-based takeaway packaging for events, reported by Access All Areas HERE. 

Our newsletter reaches over 4,450 UK event professionals interested in sustainability. Send jobs, events, resources and articles to feature here to: info@vision2025.org.uk.