Let's break down how you would approach one area of your event from each of the 4 Pillars of Sustainability: Environmental, Social/Community, Personal Health, and Economic... this week: FLORAL

There are loads more ways to approach the 4 Pillars but this episode demonstrates how to consider each pillar when looking for ways to make a more Positive+Impact in all areas of your event.

Special shout outs this week were:

Oshun pouches

Kinetic Botany, Seattle

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*One Simple Change TODAY*

Catering - Your ONE simple change for today is (for planners) ask for and/or (for caterers) provide a local and seasonal alternative menu option when planning your menu.

Benefits:

-By highlighting to the planning/stakeholding team your knowledge of your food sourcing you are showing your expertise

-This gives the event the opportunity to show off to attendees with more education, shared values demonstrated, and a more delicious in season option

-Even is the menus do not change, everyone is able to make a more informed choice based on information in ADDITION to cost, instead of exclusively focused on bottom line. Look out for options when it cost the same but is a double duty benefit.

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2025 - International Women's Day is feeling pretty intense but we can always make small better choices.

Ways to support women inside and out of the events industry with your event choices:

- Letting your vendors know that having a split of genders in your staff is important to you

- Intentionally design agendas to include diversity of gender and lifestyle representation 

- BUY from Women Owned Businesses

- Creative an environment professionally and for attendees where it's an expected part of the culture that people will share their pronouns

- Surprise Tip: if the price of imported items seem too good to be true it's because that item is either made by disadvantaged and possibly enslaved people (including children) or made in a way that destroys the environment for those same people. So buy less and buy carefully.

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This episode is a bit of a discovery mission working through the idea of resource management and my experience with post event material disposal.

Have you been stuck with a mountain of wasted brand new materials, furniture, tech, etc. at the end of your events? I have been really frustrated by the lack of consideration for the end of events - don't stop your planning at the closing party. To maximize your sustainability and reducing your waste make a clear plan for every item that you bring onsite, how it will be leaving site! In fact, add a column to your event spreadsheet, next to the shopping and pick lists, add DISPOSAL/RETURN. Indicate what items will be returned and where, what is garbage, what is recycling, what is donation and who is picking it up. In the end you will be able to track and reduce your own waste as well as take credit for all of the landfill diversion, and donations.

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*apologies for some crackle in this episode

How can we use the concept of Triple Bottom Line in Event sustainability? Measuring a business or event's success by People, Planet, and Profit (the three bottom lines) can help you see more of the benefits and outcomes of your events and your event business and it can help you avoid blindly making mistakes and getting stuck in a dead-end strategy.

Start using the Triple Bottom Line framework as a way to discuss your metrics for success and your outcomes for your individual events and with your stakeholders. Need ideas for how to frame these conversations? Get on a one hour consultation call with Alycia - https://alyciadrube.com/positiveimpacteventconsulting#:~:text=1%20hour%20Consultation%20Call

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If 2020 taught the event community anything, it's that when we get a warning we should listen! So this week I share what I'm seeing in my crystal ball. 2025 is DRIVING sustainability for the future.

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Alycia reads out some history, each of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals with the brief description, and a short segment of the 2024 Progress Report.

Review for yourself at sdgs.un.org

Inspired by Nomology part 2 - Ologies reads out the whole US Constitution https://www.alieward.com/ologies/nomology

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Greenwashing: the act or practice of making a product, policy, activity, etc. appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is. attr. Merriam-Webster.com

How are you making sure to share your sustainability ambitions without having to worry about Greenwashing? If you're like most planners and event companies your solution has been to SKIP IT, not worth the risk, no reason for it to take your time. Hopefully, this episode will help you see the benefit and how you can start mining sustainability and your company's goals as content and conversation with your audience and clients.

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Is your marketing and communication strategy excluding people inadvertently? In this episode you learn about Alycia's background with accessibility and disability, then some quick tips to make sure your digital media is always hitting the mark for accessibility to boost your inclusivity and reach.

UPDATE - Thanks to the Accessibility education community I have learned that including your image description in the caption or post in addition to in the alt text formatting DOES provide additional benefit to access. Need tips on how to write these descriptions? Here is an excellent guide from Perkins School for the Blind https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

TOOLS TO CHECK YOUR MATERIALS

Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Website ADA evaluator: https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/

Color blindness check for images: https://bioapps.byu.edu/colorblind_image_tester

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We need to prioritize making some progress all the time, rather than waiting for a perfect opportunity or big win, when it comes to implementing sustainable improvements in our businesses.

Alycia covers: mindset, some ideas of what counts, how to give yourself credit, and why it's so important to recognize when you're focused on making small progress instead of waiting for perfection.

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