Water is essential to events, but conserving it requires thoughtful strategies. From drinking water alternatives single-use plastic bottles to sourcing local produce and leveraging Water Restoration Certificates®, there are several ways to manage and reduce your event’s water footprint. Discover four key areas where you can make a meaningful impact on water management for your next event.

Water Resource Certificates® issued by Bonneville Environmental Foundation are an innovative solution to balancing water impact from event activities. Developed in partnership with Heather Schrock, Environmental Partnerships Director at BEF, this blog guides you through the basics of WRCs and their important place in a sustainable, balanced environmental portfolio.

Hosting a sustainable event doesn’t have to be expensive. This guide presents six practical, strategies to boost sustainability that don't cost anything extra. These tips reduce environmental impact and can also save money in the long term.

Engaging stakeholders in sustainability is crucial for strategic success, cost savings, and enhancing the bottom line. Our latest blog explores the importance of stakeholder engagement and offers practical tips for effective communication and collaboration.

Brochures, construction materials, coffee cups, food scraps, tote bags… event waste can be diverse and extensive. We use the Zero Waste Hierarchy as one tool to reduce and dispose of event wase - find out how it works!

When it comes to sustainable innovations, one thing that sets apart Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is its sophisticated exhibitor engagement programs. In 2023, Greenbuild and show partner U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched a new education module to advance exhibitor engagement further.

Honeycomb Strategies compiled this guide to help you talk with your leadership team to gain support for sustainability programs at your event. We give you talking points, data-backed research, and a range of approaches from the Triple Bottom Line to targeting a next-generation audience to achieve buy-in.

Honeycomb Strategies’ data-based approach to sustainability says you can’t manage what you don’t measure. Quantitative metrics aid in setting realistic goals, tracking progress towards their achievement, and transparent reporting. We’ve compiled a list of five data points that are vital to tracking sustainable progress for green events to lower their environmental impact.

Myth: sustainability is more expensive that business as usual.

Truth: events and venues see cost savings from sustainable improvements in the short and long term.

In this blog, we break down some ways sustainability saves you money.

As event and venue sustainability specialists, we see all sorts of applications for owners, managers, developers, and even booth designers to use the EC3 tool to track carbon data reliably when planning for any sort of built environment.