The Green Scene is a sustainability enterprise that works with businesses, events and individuals to make sustainability happen one step at a time. We are a social-eco enterprise with a big vision to create positive change.

We believe that if everyone starts to takes steps towards sustainability then our overall cumulative effect will be a positive shift for our planet.

Sustainability Services

Sustainability Prioritisation

The Green Scene works with businesses no matter what their sustainability aim, it may be to address inefficiencies or it may be to push the boundaries of sustainability in your sector. We can show you what is possible and help to establish a sustainability vision that encompasses what you prioritise as important and where you can have the most impact for your business or event.

Sustainability Auditing

The Green Scene can help take you from where you are at and determine areas of improvement to become more sustainable.  We are able to provide base line sustainability auditing to determine where the most beneficial areas are to improve the footprint of your business or event.

Sustainability Action Plans

After a baseline audit is established we can then look at an action plan that prioritises your goals on where we can take your business. Our Sustainability action plans can set your sustainability goals into manageable steps that consider both costs and time and effort. Your action plan is your strategic pathway to achieving sustainability.

Implementing Sustainability

Whether you are focusing on business, employee education, a café/restaurant or an event we can assist in implementing your sustainability goals. The steps will be different for each individual case.  Some will need sustainable procurement, others will need assistance with staff and employee behaviour change training, events may need a detail Sustainability management plan put into action. We can establish the areas you need assistance in putting your sustainability actions into place.

Monitoring and Reporting

Once the steps are in place and you are improving your ecological footprint and overall sustainability, The Green Scene can assist in monitoring your achievement. We are able to report on where you have come in your sustainability journey and show the results of your effort. Monitoring, Evaluation and Sustainability reporting is a service The Green Scene can offer, we can also include where the next step of improvements can be made.

Spreading your Reach – Sustainability Marketing

The Green Scene provides consulting to help you reach more customers that value businesses and events that tread lighter on our planet. We can develop a Sustainability Marketing Strategy and assist in promoting where your business has made a difference. This can be through our associated Green Guides, or via Social Media, standard media and even other promotional material such as video and print media.

Who we work with:

Businesses: The Green Scene works with Small to Medium sized business of all different sectors, as well as with individuals and employees for larger organisations and companies. Working directly with business owners and managers is our specialty as this is where the most important sustainability shifts take place.

Hospitality: We specialise in working in the hospitality sector, we see this as a key area where large sustainability improvements can be made. There are many opportunities for restaurateurs and café owners to make simple changes to their business practices which can attract more customers and make them stand out from the others in the sector.

Events: From conferences to multi-day festivals, The Green Scene can minimise the impact of your event and create a positive legacy for your business’s event. We can assist from all stages of event planning to implementations well as monitoring and reporting of your events foot print.

Location

The Green Scene is based out of Fremantle Western Australia, however we can provide sustainability consulting to businesses anywhere. We are happy to use Skype and other online platforms to make our services available wherever they are needed.

 

January 14, 2014

Greening the Retro Rumble

The Retro Rumble Free Event was a family friendly cultural event of diverse retro music and arts, which brought Northbridge alive with the sounds of forgotten eras. The event took place on November 24th 2013.  The production company that created the Retro Rumble – HMS Pop Up Productions, places a high priority on sustainability within their events, and they hired The Green Scene to help green The Retro Rumble.

The Green Scene worked strategically with HMS Pop Up productions to produce an event that evaluated ways to reduce it’s overall footprint.  By breaking down the event’s sustainability initiatives into the following categories: Waste, Emissions, and Awareness Raising, The Green Scene was able to plan preventative measures, implement and monitor The Retro Rumble’s impact.

With a limited budget, The Green Scene was able to use innovation, creativity and up-cycling to implement many sustainability strategies including –

All Photos by Bela Cap

All Photos by Bela Cap

Green travelWaste: Diverting 100% of waste from landfill, using on-site waste sorting with Green Scene monitors, no single use plastics for stall holders, using bio-plastics (biodegradable) cups for the bar and water stations and 100% up cycled signage.

Emissions: Reduction in amount of car travel by production company and set up crew, Set up for green power to be purchased, monitoring of all emissions and calculating overall total of emissions for the event.

Awareness Raising: Social media campaign to promote green travel, Green travel incentives – eco-bags, and $2 off the bar, eco-hub City of Perth stall, re-fillable water drinking station. Stall holders provided with compostable bags, and eco-guidelines. Eco-transport public survey, 12 Green Scene volunteers available for questions and promotion of sustainability.Eco Waste Management

Offsetting: 88.29tons CO2e was produced by the event ( the majority being from flights for the artists), these emissions were able to  be offset through Carbon Neutral via local tree planting initiatives, and Green Power Offsets.

As with any event, there are always areas of improvement to be considered for future events. Some learnings from the Retro Rumble include:

  • Access to mains power monitoring was limited and prevent the event from securing green power
  •  More detailed emissions monitoring to get a more accurate measure of emissions generated
  • Lack of eco-suppliers in Western Australia, restricted what was available. for example – bio diesel for generators, and                    environmental toilets
  • Stronger regulation of stallholders to ensure environmental guidelines were followed                                                 SONY DSC                    Carbon wise event

Retro Rumble

           For more detailed information on the sustainability initiatives at the Retro Rumble Festival – report here.

Greening events in Western Australia has its limitations and restrictions, however with more and more events taking a stand and incorporating sustainability, we  therefore create a demand for more eco-services for events, and eco-minded stall holders. Any event no matter how big or small can implement sustainability initiatives, reducing their footprint and using their event as a great way to raise awareness and encourage sustainable actions.

Are you holding an event? Want to make it a difference as you do it and stand out from the rest. The Green Scene can help you achieve this. Get in touch!

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Testimonial:

“The Green Scene enabled us to ‘green’ our festival which was no easy task. The festival itself was complex, encompassing many elements which needed to be investigated, and The Green Scene analysed each element in turn, focusing on waste, water and carbon emissions from the event. They also managed to almost eliminate plastics from the event, encouraging the use of re-useable bags and bottles and compostable cups. We would love to work with The Green Scene on future events and festivals, and would definitely recommend them to other businesses, organisations and festivals. In fact – we already have!”

Melanie Bainbridge

Captain at – HMS Popup Productions

January 14, 2014

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