Event Greening Ideas
Saturday, September 8th, 2007 (Events)
Hi Jaye,
Great idea! We are offering green transportation and carbon mitigation options through our Greenway Transit business and have beautiful fair trade gifts and decoratives through Forests of the World.
That is conceivably the largest impact a wedding will have is carbon/pollution emissions for travel for all the guests (including the honeymoon). The second would be lodging and accommodations as hotels are slow to the greening process, but energy, water consumption and sustainable food are issues when staying at hotels. The third category would be food, as buying local, organic/permiculture and vegan/healthy are very significant. Finally, accessories, such as gifts, table settings, services, flowers all should be considered using fair trade, organic, local criteria for selection. The impact on wedding guests of thoughtful, loving and earth caring ideas is where the real impact can be made. Educating and influencing others to adopt these lifestyle changes which can be fun and equally fulfilling are key.
Resources:
CoopAmerica.org
FairTradeFederation.org
your local fair trade store and food coop
Good Luck!
Marc
Jaye E. Marsh wrote:
> Dear Like Minded Business!
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> I am launching an event planning business, focusing primarily on smaller family occasions and, of ‘course, the ubiquitous weddings.
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> I will be offering myself as the ‘Eco-Wedding Planner’ in my city, Toronto, Canada, and am looking for partners, resources, alliances and supporters for this endeavor.
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> The wedding industry is still in the ‘awareness’ stage in most of North America and to that end I am planning “The Eco Wedding Show” in Toronto for this coming January/February. It will be a modest affair to begin with but I anticpate a lot of attention…I already have newsmedia and lifestyle tv shows interested in presenting information on this show to their viewers.
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> I am requesting any possible research pointers, resources and vendor databases that might help me build a meaningful tradeshow that will inform, offer service and value to consumers and vendors on both weddings and lifestyles, which are often paired.
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> I hope my endeavor is of interest to you and I look forward to any feedback you have to offer.
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> Best regards,
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> Jaye Marsh
> President
> It’s Personal! Occasions
> www.itspersonal.ca
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