International campaign for greener festivals started in 2009 in 3 "Visegrad" countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

This year Konopa association (member organisation of YEE) together with Youth and Environment Europe, Eurosolar.cz, Sosna, Nimfea and Green Action Hungary will organise series of demonstrative events where actual ecological possibilities for cultural festivals such as biodegradable dishes, renewable energies, compostable toilets or local food will be presented.

"We will invite festival organisers and ecological companies to round table where the best concept of cooperation shall be designed with intend to decrease negative impact of cultural events on the environment," explains Michal Ruman from Konopa. Illustrative guideline will then help to share experience and facilitate conversion of cultural festivals to more sustainable ones.

The campaign for greener festivals is run under long-term campaign for sustainable life, Sunny Campaign, and is inspired by tendencies visible in United Kingdom, France or Belgium and among festival organisers themselves.

You can check ongoing events on www.sunnycampaign.net and webpages of partner organisations.

"We keen to create an international network of sustainable festivals. Our main aim is to spread the message about ecological solutions and their use to broad public and motivate people to apply those at home; to show that with a little effort we can produce less or no waste, save energy and natural resources," closes Michal Ruman.

The project is supported by International Visegrad Fund and Partnership Foundation .

Greener festivals project is organised by six environmental non-profit associations from Czech Republic (Konopa, Youth and Environment Europe, Eurosolar.cz), Slovakia (SOSNA) and Hungary (Nimfea, Green Action).
It is a part of a long-term campaign for sustainable life, Sunny campaign run by Konopa and Youth and Environment Europe federation since 2005.

With the Greener festivals project we want to mainly:

* Decrease negative impact of cultural events on the environment by transfer of knowledge and good practices;
* Show to people different ecological techniques and how to apply them in their daily lives;

How do we want to do it?
We will organise pilot festivals where we will show richness of greener solutions as much as possible "in action": sustainable transport, local food, water management, energy use, compostable toilets and dishes or separation of garbage.

We will invite different festival organisers, environmental NGOs and environmentally oriented companies - renewable energies, materials and sustainable techniques suppliers - to round tables where we want to establish a long-term partnership and design the best model of cooperation with intend to decrease negative impact of cultural events on the environment.

We will create the "greener festivals guideline" with good practices that will help to share experience and facilitate conversion of cultural festivals to more sustainable ones.

To know more...
See www.sunnycampaign webpage or contact one of the partners:

Konopa
Website: www.konopa.cz
Contact person: Michal Ruman
Contact Address: Kubátova 1/32, 102 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic
GSM: +420 724 106 808
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Youth and Environmental Europe (YEE)
Website: www.yeenet.eu
Contact person: Michal Ruman, Alberto Mogio Perez
Contact Address: Kubátova 1/32, 102 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic
Tel: + 420 27 17 50 643
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Eurosolar.cz
Website: www.eurosolar.cz
Contact person: Milan Smrž
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Zöld Akció Egyesület (Green Action Association)
Website: www.greenaction.hu
Address: Kossuth 13, Miskolc, 3525, Hungary
Tel: +36 46 508 701
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Nimfea Természetvédelmi Egyesulet
Website: www.nimfea.hu
Address: Ecsegi u.22, Turkeve, 5420, Hungary
Tel: +36 56 361 505
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SOSNA, občanské sdruženie (SOSNA, association)
Website : www.sosna.sk
Address: Zvonárska 12, Košice, 04001, Slovakia
Tel: +421 05 56 25 19 03
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