Sustainable Biz Magazine A4 March 2023 - Flipbook - Page 42
Green Space Dark Skies sustainability
findings released in new report
G
reen Space Dark Skies (GSDS)
was an ambitious crosssector collaborative project
commissioned by UNBOXED: Creativity in
the UK in 2022.
The project put environmental
sustainability at its heart, achieving
some major sustainability successes and
impressive carbon savings. They are now
releasing the report to share this best
practice with organisations delivering
outdoor events.
To meet the challenge of the climate
emergency, Green Space Dark Skies
employed a collective and collaborative
approach. The open sharing of knowledge
and experience was vital to establishing a
new working culture where sustainability
was as central to the event production as
health and safety.
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"Green Space Dark Skies
as a large-scale national
project provided the
resources and partners to
embed sustainability from
the planning, delivery and
measurement stages towards
achieving ambitious targets
across both the social and
environmental aspects of the
project."
S USTA I N A B L E B I Z M AG AZ I N E
JUNE 2023
Green Space Dark Skies as a large-scale
national project provided the resources
and partners to embed sustainability from
the planning, delivery and measurement
stages towards achieving ambitious targets
across both the social and environmental
aspects of the project. The scope of data
collection was vast including energy,
transport, materials, food and beverage,
waste, accessibility, diversity, and digital.
The aims were to leave no trace and be
climate positive, ultimately removing
more carbon from the atmosphere than it
produces.
The report contains the carbon data for
the entire project, shares learnings and
innovations gathered on the way and does
not shy away from some of the challenges
faced.