It's one thing to help event producers design more sustainable events by providing a tool that embodies sustainability know-how and helps them transfer this knowledge into the event they design, it is quite another challenge to leverage this capability to influence the event-goers behavior. We provide the Event-goer critical sustainability information at the critical time of decision making. EventMapStudio implements 2 strategies to modify the event-goers' behavior and drive them to more sustainable behavior.
Sustainable Events
Really interesting report by Ecolibrium on Green Travel for Events.
As always in the case of sustainability guidelines the challenge remains their actual implementations. How do you communicate these best practices to event designers? How do you ensure they actually put them into practice? At EventMapStudio we use technology to a achieve these 2 goals
Remember James Carville's words from the 1992 US presidential elections campaign: "It's the economy stupid!" ?
In the event sustainability world studies have found that the main culprit for an event's carbon footprint is usually transportation. So how does EventMapStudio address transportation?
There are many sources for event sustainability guidelines. Most are published by cities or sustainability-focus organizations. We list a few here.
EventMapStudio includes and automates many of these guidelines.
"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Henry Ford
The EventMapStudio Spatial Analysis tool on the Event Intelligence palette aims at supporting event producers solving many of these spatial layout challenges. It provides the ability to select a category of map items, and set a radius around each of the items in the selected category to see the spatial environment of the items.
Evaluating event layout software is complicated. Sometime extensive use is required because you can only identify weaknesses by using , trying, experimenting, and ultimately hitting a wall. But then it is too late..... Here are 5 criteria to evaluate an outdoor event mapping system BEFORE you invest too much time using it:
We had the priviledge to be part of the first cohort of SustainableCincy, an international accelerator program for early-stage startups in the environmental sustainability space.
Watch our 5 minute presentation at the final event, keynoted by sustainability expert John Picard, to understand how EventMapStudio can help you drive your event's sustainability.
Interesting articles in Rolling Stones Magazine about sustainability and music.