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15-Minute City Project is designed to help access-focused urban transformations be what we need them to be: ambitious, inclusive, measurable and effectively implemented. 

A Greener Future is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving sustainability of events, tours, venues, festivals and all live sector contributors. 

"Gala funding and Resources Guide" Second edition, Marta Gracia. On the Move, 2020. 

(A selection of funding opportunities and resources for arts and culture projects related to environmental sustainability)

"The Ultimate Cookbook for Cultural Managers: The EU Green Deal and Live Performance Organisations" EFA Revealing the Alliance, EFA & Pearle*-Live Performance Europe, 2021. 

("Inside this “cookbook” you will find all the necessary ingredients as well as several recipes for cooking this "sustainability" dish. As with all dishes you can add spices, flavours or other ingredients, depending on your taste and needs.")

"The Green Theatre Book" 1 : Sustainable Productions, version beta.2 for trialling. 

(Detailed guidance towards sustainability. Three volumes: 1. Sustainable Shows, 2. Sustainable Buildings, 3. Sustainable Operations)

Cited works

“Environmental Change.” Chartered Institute of Fundraising - Environmental change. Accessed November 9, 2021. https://ciof.org.uk/events-and-training/resources/environmental-change

“Just Launched: Sustaining Great Art and Culture 2017/18.” ROCK. Accessed November 9, 2021. https://rockproject.eu/news-details/97

Conserve Energy Future. ‘The “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” Waste Hierarchy’. Conserve Energy Future. Accessed 18 October 2021. https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/reduce-reuse-recycle.php

Cook, Ed. ‘How to Make an Event Sustainable with 7 Examples’. Eventbrite Blog (blog), 9 June 2019. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/blog/make-an-event-more-environmentally-sustainable-ds00/

DutchCulture. ‘An Exploration of Possibilities and Challenges of Fair International Cultural Cooperation’. DutchCulture - Centre for international cooperation, 10 May 2021. https://dutchculture.nl/sites/default/files/2021-05/DutchCulture-Publicatie%20Fair-2021-DEF.pdf

Evans, Marni. ‘What Is Environmental Sustainability?’ Balance Small Business, 7 July 2020. https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-sustainability-3157876

Glasgow 2014. ‘Glasgow 2014 Achieves New Sustainability Benchmark for a Commonwealth Games’. Glasgow 2014. Accessed 18 October 2021. http://www.glasgow2014.com/media-centre/press-releases/glasgow-2014-achieves-new-sustainability-benchmark-commonwealth-games

Iberdrola. ‘How Is Climate Change Affecting the Economy and Society?’ Iberdrola. Accessed 14 October 2021. https://www.iberdrola.com/environment/impacts-of-climate-change

Julie’s Bicycle. ‘Sustaining Great Art and Culture - Environmental Report 2017/18’, November 2018. https://www.juliesbicycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sustaining_Great_Art_and_Culture_2017_18_Executive_Summary.pdf

Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Jim Skea, Panmao Zhai, Debra Roberts, Priyadarshi R. Shukla, Anna Pirani, et al. ‘Global Warming of 1.5°C - An IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C above Pre-Industrial Levels and Related Global Greenhouse Gas Emission Pathways, in the Context of Strengthening the Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty’. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/SR15_Full_Report_Low_Res.pdf

MBARI. ‘Climate Change and the Ocean’. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institue (MBARI). Accessed 15 October 2021. https://www.mbari.org/climate-change/

Met Office. ‘What Is Climate Change?’ Met Office. Accessed 19 October 2021. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate-change/what-is-climate-change

NASA. ‘Climate Change: How Do We Know?’ NASA Global Climate Change - Vital Signs of the Planet. Accessed 14 October 2021. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Ocko, Ilissa. ‘The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health – a Sobering New Report’. Environmental Defense Fund, 5 April 2016. http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2016/04/05/the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-human-health-a-sobering-new-report/

Pelto, Jill. Dwindling Migration. 2016. https://www.jillpelto.com/caribou

Pelto, Jill. Landscape of Change. 2015. https://www.jillpelto.com/landscape-of-change

Pelto, Jill. Proxies for the Past. 2015. https://www.jillpelto.com/proxies

Raworth, Kate. ‘What on Earth Is the Doughnut?…’. Kate Raworth - exploring the doughnut economics. Accessed 18 October 2021. https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

Solnit, Rebecca. ‘Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence’, n.d. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/climate-change-violence-occupy-earth

Study.com. Environmental Sustainability: Definition and Application. Accessed 15 October 2021. https://study.com/academy/lesson/environmental-sustainability-definition-and-application.html

TED2018. A Healthy Economy Should Be Designed to Thrive, Not Grow, 2018. https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_raworth_a_healthy_economy_should_be_designed_to_thrive_not_grow?language=en

The Guardian. ‘Glastonbury 2019: Festival Clean-up under Way’, 1 July 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-48823850 

Tickell, Alison. ‘The Role of Creative Industries in Driving Change’, 22 May 2020. https://greenworld.org.uk/article/role-creative-industries-driving-change 

Watson, Mel. ‘The Making Waves Guide to Plastic-Free Festivals and Events’. RAW Foundation, 6 March 2018. http://rawfoundation.org/making-waves/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Festival-Guide-20182.pdf 

EnvironmentalScience.org. ‘What Is Sustainability and Why Is It Important?’ Accessed 18 October 2021. https://www.environmentalscience.org/sustainability 

WMO. ‘State of the Climate in 2018 Shows Accelerating Climate Change Impacts’. World Meteoroligcal Organization (WMO), 28 March 2019. https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/state-of-climate-2018-shows-accelerating-climate-change-impacts 

Wootton, Liz. ‘The 8 Best Sustainable Festivals in the World’, 6 August 2019. https://eco-age.com/resources/the-best-sustainable-festivals-in-the-world/ 

World Commission on Environment and Development. ‘Our Common Future’. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm.

WWF-UK. ‘The Effects of Climate Change’. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK). Accessed 14 October 2021. https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/effects-of/climate-change 

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