20 Resolutions for Sustainable Venues in 2020
The New Year is a great opportunity to look ahead and plan to make some changes. We've put together 20 resolution ideas (10 business and 10 individual) for venues – including addressing waste, carbon emissions and supporting the community. How many can you tick off in 2020?
Business Resolutions:
- Adopt a road, park or waterway and become part of the clean-up crew.
- Go single-use free. Ban all single use items (straws, cups, plastic bottles etc) from your venue, and find alternatives.
- Sign up to RefillNZ (encourage people to refill their own water bottles).
- Get rid of paper tickets - and any other unnecessary paper.
- Support a tree-planting project like Trees That Count or Million Metres.
- Measure your venue’s carbon use.
- Develop and communicate your venue's sustainability policy.
- Support the community e.g. plan a team volunteer day, donate venue use or event tickets to a good cause, etc.
- Make a plan to sustainably dispose of your organic waste (e.g. donate to a pig farmer, compost, use an organic waste collection service, collaborate with local businesses on a collective solution).
- Actively talk about the Tiaki Promise with your attendees.
Individual Resolutions:
- Watch the movie 2040 if you haven’t already.
- Commit to only buying takeaway coffee if your reusable cup is handy. Adopt the SUC (single use cup) motto: Sit, BYO or borrow!
- Research and purchase in-season only produce at the grocery stores.
- Commit to eating Meatless Mondays. Or become a flexitarian!
- Choose one item that comes in a non-recyclable package, and give it up for the whole year (e.g. chips, chocolate bars, biscuits).
- Challenge yourself to only buy used items - nothing new!
- Switch to LED lights in your house.
- Read at least one of the Top 10 books of 2019 on Climate Action.
- Choose to bus/bike/walk to work one day a week (or more!).
- Donate to a social or community cause (e.g. one of the Australian bushfire appeals).