Ecosystem Events

As of September 2024, Julia Spangler has joined the team at Honeycomb Strategies! Ecosystem Events is now closed and no longer offering services, but don’t worry — if you need sustainability support for your event, venue, or destination, the rest of the talented Honeycomb Strategies team and I are ready to help. Visit the Honeycomb Strategies website to get started: https://www.hcsustainability.com/

Indianapolis has tons of great partners to help keep event materials OUT of the landfill and IN the community, but they were never gathered in one convenient resource for event organizers… until now! 🎉

Check out the Indianapolis Event Waste Guide for everything you need to know about reusing, donating, recycling, and composting from your event in Indy. 💚

📣 Hot off the presses! Indianapolis is making it easier for organizers of large events in the city to make sustainable decisions via the release of the new Indianapolis Event Waste Guide!

👉 https://www.visitindy.com/meetings/why-indy/sustainability-in-indianapolis/

♻️ The Guide is intended to empower both out-of-town and local event organizers with the information they need to reduce as much waste as possible - whether the event hosts 50 people or 50,000.

✔️ The comprehensive resources include step-by-step instructions, best practices, and local vendor contact information for implementing successful waste reduction, recycling, composting, and donation practices at scale.

🏊 The development of the guide was a priority for the Sustainability Committee for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Swimming Indianapolis Local Organizing Committee. Partners in the Guide's creation included representatives from the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability, Indiana Sports Corp, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., Visit Indy, Visit Hamilton County, Indiana, and local, woman-owned business Ecosystem Events.

💬 Tag an event that could use something like this below so they're aware it exists!

Join me on Wed. June 26 for the next delivery of my class with MUSE: Fundamentals of Sustainable Events! ♻🌿🌎

After taking this course, you'll be able to reduce the environmental impact of your event through best practices and make sustainable decisions throughout your planning process.

Learn more and register: https://www.museusa.org/fundamentals

It's back! I'm partnering with MUSE (Members United for Sustainable Events) to present Fundamentals of Sustainable Events, a live, interactive course, on Wed. February 7.

Through live instruction, discussion, and activities, you’ll learn how to:

💼 Make a business case for sustainable events
💚 Foster a culture of sustainability within your organization
🌡️ Understand the causes and solutions to climate change
↘️ Reduce your events' greenhouse gas emissions
♻️ Reduce event waste and divert material from landfills
🥗 Compare sustainable food & beverage options
📣 Measure, report and share your event's sustainability results

After taking Fundamentals of Sustainable Events, you'll be able to reduce the environmental impact of your event through best practices and make sustainable decisions throughout your planning process.

Learn more and register here: https://www.museusa.org/fundamentals

The Ecosystem Events website is temporarily down. I’m working to get it back online, thank you for your patience!

I'm super stoked to announce my brand new course, Reducing & Diverting Event Waste: Deep Dive, presented in partnership with MUSE (Members United for Sustainable Events). ♻️

As a certified waste nerd, this is a course I've been dreaming of doing for a long time. It's a brain dump of all of the strategies, tips, and behind-the-scenes information I've gathered in all my years of working with event waste.

I'm really excited to have translated all of my waste expertise out of my head and into an engaging course where others can benefit from it. I'm also excited that there are two ways you can participate:

1️⃣ Join our live, interactive online session on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 from noon – 2:30 p.m. ET / 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. PT

2️⃣ Can't join us live? Watch the recorded session on-demand at a time that works for you.

Learn more & register: https://www.museusa.org/eventwaste

It's that time again! I'm partnering with MUSE (Members United for Sustainable Events) to present Fundamentals of Sustainable Events, a live, interactive course, on Wed. July 26.⁠

Through live instruction, discussion, and activities, you’ll learn how to:⁠

💼 Make a business case for sustainable events⁠
💚 Create a culture of sustainability within your organization⁠
🤝 Build sustainability programs through collaboration and budgeting⁠
🌡️ Understand the causes and solutions to climate change⁠
☁️ Reduce your events' greenhouse gas emissions⁠
♻️ Reduce event waste and divert material from landfills⁠
🍓 Compare sustainable food & beverage options⁠
📈 Measure, report and share your event's sustainability results⁠

After taking Fundamentals of Sustainable Events, you'll be able to reduce the environmental impact of your event through best practices and make sustainable decisions throughout your planning process.⁠

Join us on Wed. July 26 from noon – 4:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT. Register here: https://www.museusa.org/fundamentals

I'm excited to be presenting at the 2023 Meeting Planner Summit hosted by the Virginia Society of Association Executives. I'll be kicking off the agenda on March 23 with the Six Steps to a Zero Waste Event. ♻️ Check out the rest of the great agenda and register: https://www.vsae.org/mpsummit

Only a few days left to register for Fundamentals of Sustainable Events on March 8! 💚 This course is a great primer on all things sustainability for events, from waste ♻️ to energy & climate ⚡ to food & beverage 🥗 and more. Learn more and register here: https://www.museusa.org/online-course

(If you have any questions about the course, feel free to comment or email me!)

The next session of Meeting Professionals International - MPI's Sustainable Event Strategist course — taught by yours truly — is Thursday, Sept. 15. ♻️ Save 25% by using promo code LaborDay_25% when you register by Sept. 9!

This live, online 4-hour course covers all things sustainability for meetings & events, from waste to carbon emissions to a new section about sustainable food & beverage. Learn everything you need to plan your greenest events yet.

Learn more & register: https://www.mpi.org/education/certificate-programs/sustainable-event-strategist

Don't miss the sustainable events meetup tomorrow! Join us at noon ET for a conversation about finding joy in the work of sustainable events. Register: http://ow.ly/J6i650Kqi6e