This month:

• Green Leader Q&A with Clare Goodchild, Director of We Organise Chaos.
• Material Focus Vape Recycling Campaign Reaches Over 630,000 Festival-goers.
• Stefan Edwards, Bristol City Council Events Officer shares his research journey into decarbonising power at events
• Pax Nindi, pioneer in sustainable carnival practice, on Carnival, Creativity and Climate.
• onboard:earth launch Green Travel Toolkit for Welsh Events at AIF Festivals Summit
• Resource Spotlight: Assessing Sustainable Suppliers, new tools for all events explained by Environmental Manager at The Royal Ballet & Opera
• Julie's Bicycle and partners call for 200,000 signatories for We Make Tomorrow. 
• An overview of upcoming events and news from across the industry.

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Clare is a Company Founder / Director and Consultant Event Operations Manager with over 15 years delivering event experiences across outdoor mass gathering and brand sectors. Working predominately alongside independent and grassroots festivals, Clare specialises in event operational delivery and project management, recent festival clients include, We Out Here, Brockwell Live, Rock Oyster, and Live at York Museum Gardens. Read her answers to our 20 Event Industry Green Leader questions HERE>>

Last month, we spoke with Ted Leggett, Culture & Events Manager at Norwich City Council Sustainability. Read his answers HERE>> 

In this guest article, Rowan Barnes, Senior Project Coordinator Material Focus, shares progress on the ongoing campaign to tackle the environmental impact of vapes at UK music festivals. 

Despite the ban on single-use vapes over 8 million vapes a week are still being binned incorrectly leading to landfill and a loss of the valuable material they embody as well as real risks of fire and contamination due to the lithium batteries they contain. Read about the latest work with some of the UK's biggest festivals, including Reading and Leeds, Download, Creamfields, Boomtown, Truck and Love Saves the Day - and learn how to get involved in 2026 HERE >>

Stefan Edwards, Senior Events Officer at Bristol City Council, has increasingly specialised in event sustainability and was recently awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to research innovative approaches to decarbonising event power.

In this guest article, he shares his journey so far, travelling across Europe to learn how festivals in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are decarbonising power HERE >>

If you have the desire to tackle an issue that you care deeply about, consider applying to the Churchill Fellowship for support Applications are currently open until midday on 4 November 2025. If you’ve got an idea, apply now!

The charity onboard:earth has launched its Green Travel Guide and Toolkit for Events in Wales at the Welsh Festivals Summit in Cardiff, 16th October 2025.

Shared with delegates at the Summit, presented by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) and British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA), the new toolkit provides specialist advice and resources for increasing low-carbon travel at live outdoor events across the country. Download the Tookit HERE>>

Pax Nindi FRSA is the founder of Junkanew TV and a pioneer in sustainable carnival practice. A Zimbabwean-British cultural leader, who has directed and advised numerous festivals globally, with a mission to centre eco-consciousness in celebratory arts.

In this guest article, Pax shares his journey to challenge carnival organisations to think green—from using biodegradable materials for mas making (the designing and crafting of the elaborate costumes for a carnival parade) - to reuse strategies and storytelling around climate.Read the full guest article HERE >> 

To address a growing need to understand the sustainability credentials of the supply chain and chart Scope 3 emissions, a group of cultural sector organisations, led by supplier workshops at The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO), has created an open access, easy-to-use google-based form that can be sent by any organisation to suppliers. It can be used by outdoor event organisers and their supply chain too, and shared to save time and effort in understanding the environmental impact of supply chains. 

In this article, Rachael O'Sullivan, Environmental Manager at The Royal Ballet & Opera, shares the aims and processes of this valuable new resource for the events industry HERE >> 

Have you signed the Global Call to put culture at the heart of climate action? It’s 25 Days to COP30 and thousands of voices from across the world are uniting to call on decision makers to embed culture into climate policy #WeMakeTomorrow.

Join 124,000 voices already calling for rapid action on climate rooted in values that uphold cultural rights and climate justice to leverage the transformative power of arts, creativity, cultural memory and practice in climate action. Help Julie's Bicycle reach 200,000 signatures HERE>>

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

• AEG Europe and Ecotricity partner on landmark green power initiative, in Access All Areas HERE>>
• Roder UK, supplier of modular structures for live events, has gained recognition for its sustainability work, in Access All Areas HERE >>
• Without Walls is looking for three individuals to join its Board of Directors. Apply by 22 Oct HERE>>
• ADE Green Conference announces full programme for 2025 HERE>>
• Greener Events and Innovations Conference returns to Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on Tuesday, 24 Feb 2026 HERE>> 

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