The final green team post-San Jose Jazz Festival, 2008, in front of resulant "trash" after 80,00+/- revelers played over a gorgeous summer weekend. Better than 90% diversion achieved!
Green Mary is an event-support service specializing in Event Greening, waste diversion and eco-education in the San Francisco Bay Area. She consults and shares information around the country and lately around the world. Learn how to do event production in an environmentally beneficial manner as we all work and play more lightly on the planet.
Most of the public already recycles at home. They participate in the festivals and appreciate the service at our public and private events. Currently, event producers pay for waste hauling and management, but this aspect of their planning is the last priority for many venue managers and event producers. The grand goal of greening with Green-Mary is maximum waste diversion, effective, system-wide resource management and an educational campaign complete with actionable steps for every level of participation. All this is accomplished through existing site and operations analyses and the introduction of readily available products, services and messaging under the guidance of one of the Bay Area's most prominent and results-oriented production support service providers.
Green Mary has been exclusively focused on event greening in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2001. By 2010, she has supported resource management at hundreds of events and touched millions of participants in at least a peripheral fashion, often more profoundly.
Whether yours is a one-time event, a regular occurrence or an annual meeting that moves about the country, all have the opportunity to be produced in a fashion that support and advance planetary health.
It's way more than garbage and cleaning, but intersects everywhere the planet is affected by event production. We help upload transit maps, make arrangements for bicycle valet parking and liaiison with carpooling organizations such as SpaceShare to lighten your transportation footprint, Greening can save money in some categories of waste management and in all areas, it's a savings to the planet. We manage the removal of used vendor oil for remaking as car veggie oil, hook food vendors, caterers and producers up with organizations such as Food Runners to ensure all remaining food is kept from the landfill, and instead goes to feeding the homeless or those in hospices.
Arrange a meeting with Green Mary to examine the full systems options and come into the age of intertwined eco-event production, then watch the benefits blossom.Some of the services and possibilities offered include: Bike valet parking onsite, carpooling to the site and mass transit maps and schedules for your website Carbon emission reductions options for travelers and attendees 100% biodegradable food service supplies or reusable dishware for smaller events AB2176 compliance as each municipality s top waste producers adhere to state mandated waste reduction (Sept. 2004)
Full spectrum waste reduction includes the Green Mary water refill stations. Water is filtered on-site and provided for REFILL rather than generating dozens to thousands of so-called recycled water bottles (check out other Green Mary news on plastic water bottles and their content s effects on us and the planet. ) Nearly all plastics for recycling in the Bay Area are shipped to China and come back to us as flooring and such, contributing to an endless stream, turned into continental petrochemical islands in our oceans.
EcoStations provide all participants with the easy self-sorting option of disposing of their compostables, recyclables and the remaining minimal landfill items. These EcoStations serve to educate consumers about what is really recyclable in the host city's municipal hauling system and include the physical items attached to each can for clear identification and subsequent disposal.
A reusable dish sharing program has been launched and dishware for gatherings of up to 200 people are available at no cost to municipal and non-profit organizations. We use earth-friendly recycled content paper towels and toilet paper, and phosphate-free dish and hand soaps are much better for our water.
We help with PR, the uploading of green webpages, turn in your recycling plan in San Francisco, pick up loaner trash cans from the Department of Public Works, calculate numbers and sizes for dumspters and trash cans, place them all, and clean it all up when the party is over. Contribution to event programs and press releases tout your visionary new green advances and practices.
Track your event waste results in all three categories: compost, recycling and garbage and subsequent report to the county or city waste management agencies. Then we provide year-to-year tracking of those numbers so that events may report their progress in annual reports, press releases and programs for attendees.
The Green Team extends its loving eco-tentacles into nearly every major Bay Area event each season, training while we sort "trash," gently modeling even as we party. Training of year-round personnel integrates the same waste-reduction program and operate as a cohesive crew with common, measurable goals and recognition.
Siging on with our event waste diversion wonder-network gains events access to extensive Green Mary resources and interaction with area ecological organizations, expands the resource sharing opportunities. Increased sponsorship, grant and fund-raising opportunities as your organization or event raises itself above minimal event production commitments, to move toward a responsible and visionary event production. The public notices these changes and such transformation motivates the public and contributes to immense good will - we see and feel it every day.
Green Mary's trademarked service is focussed on increased awareness and education. Her methods will establish greening best practices exacting commitments above mere management of waste reduction. We aim for empowering, rather than enabling, to change systems, affect individual thinking and behavior.
Whatever the purpose for your gathering, yours can easily lighten its environmental footprint as it expands its audience base and joins the ever-growing green network of events. Call for a free quote and to start exploring the green possibiliities.