All the experience we have in creating a sustainable, low-impact festival, collated into one place for you to explore.
From the early Green Gatherings in the distant 1980's to the Big Green Gathering of the 90's and the recent decade we've spent building a pioneering, award-winning event in the Welsh borders, we've gained a gritty hands-on understanding of how to embed green principles and practices at the very core of our festival.
Now we want to share that experience, along with insights from the brilliant hive-mind of Green Gathering imagineers, in order to help others lessen the impact of their events too. Take a look below to find out more.
Our How Green page is packed with detail too.
You can't power a festival with solar-energy in the UK, can you?
Yes, you really can. Here we want to offer some practical, technical insight and demystify the process of providing off-grid power, showing you what renewables are truly capable of.
Sustainable Power: Dream or Reality?
Travel remains one of the biggest challenges for event sustainability.
Travel accounts for over 90% of our festival’s carbon emissions. This breaks down how both organisers and festival goers can help - the key to tackling this really lies in everyone getting involved.
Our waste management system is also an education tool.
Zero waste goes to landfill at Green Gathering - it's composted, recycled or reused, and anything left is incinerated locally for energy use in Wales.
Clean Stream Resource Centre - Guide to Waste Management
Not just business as usual.
Our trading standards are incredibly high - but traders still love coming to our festival, and take our practices onwards in their festival season too. This creates real world change.
How we work with traders
Terms & Condition: food traders
Terms & Condition: non-food traders
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Sustainability applies to more than the environment, it requires inclusion and equity.
From offering assisted access to focusing on diversity on stage, these are the steps we take to make our festival accessible to all.
Our Assisted Access area
Gender representation in our line up and the Keychange Pledge
How we aim to be 'sustainable' in all we do - and a whole lot more than that too.
These articles explain our beliefs and ethos, and how we embed a culture of planet before profit.
How Green Was Green Gathering 2022?
Watch 'Gather' - a spoken word piece about us and about hope
Making Green Gathering - words from our family on why we do what we do
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