ABOUT This website has been put together by Meegan Jones. The purpose is to help share knowledge on sustainable event management. Meegan Jones is an events professional focusing her work on developing sustainable management solutions for live events. Apart from producing practical solutions to sustainability challenges, working with industry peers she has researched and developed benchmarking and systems for assessing the impact of events. She uses her experience in marketing and event management across the retail, music and media industries to create scenarios which engage and activate the audience, performers, crew and the supply chain. She worked for the past three years in the UK as Sustainability Co-ordinator for Festival Republic (Reading, Leeds, Latitude & Glastonbury Festivals), developed sustainability solutions at Peats Ridge Festival in Australia, and has worked on sustainability issues for Live Earth India and the London Marathon. She is currently sitting on the working group for Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) events industry sector supplement, is global greening consultant for the next round of Live Earth events, and is the events and festivals consultant for UK-based music industry climate impact organization Julie’s Bicycle. She is co-author of the audience transport research ‘Jam Packed’ in co-ordination with Catherine Botterill and Julie’s Bicycle. More info here: www.juliesbicycle.com Book: Sustainable Event Management: A Practical Guide brings together her research and experience in the sector along with examples and case studies from many others doing the same.