The interactive workshop in the morning, run by evactuation specialist Tony Ball, will provide applicable and up-to-date training on dealing with an emergency evacuation and encompassing issues including health & safety. Delegates that attend the workshop as well as the afternoon sessions will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

The morning session is ticketed and there are very limited places, book early to avoid disappointment. There is a discount for AIF Members & Students.

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The afternoon sessions are made up of a number of presentations and panels with dedicated Q&A intervals and are free for industry to attend. In order to safeguard against reoccurring tragedies key industry figures and specialists will be exploring the standard practise that needs to go into sourcing and constructing temporary structures and consideration of the very real effect of climate change on outdoor events. Discussions opening up to the floor will concentrare on the nuts and bolts of how to ensure the temporary structures at your outdoor event are safe and how to prepare for and manage crowd evacuation and movements in response to an emergency.

The afternoon sessions are free to attend, but you MUST BOOK IN ADVANCE due to capacity restrictions.

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SCHEDULE

11:00 -11:30 MORNING REGISTRATION

11:30 – 13:00 WORKSHOP
Tony Ball, Show And Event Security / International Centre for Crowd Management and Safety Studies – Interactive Workshop.

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH BREAK (Cafeteria and local cafes. Not included in ticket price)

13:30 – 14:00 AFTERNOON REGISTRATION

14:00 – 14:15 PRESENTATION
Rudi Enos, Senior Designer of Special Structures Lab

14:15 – 14:30 PRESENTATION
Insurance – a key issue for events

14:30 – 15:00 PRESENTATION
Chris Kemp, Bucks New Uni / ICCMSS – European Response to Climate Issues

15:00 – 15:15 SHORT BREAK

15:15 – 16:30 PANEL / Q&A
Structural Safety and Outdoor Events

Andy Lenthall (PSA) Moderator
Andy Yates (Webb and Yates Engineers)
Richard Bryan (Spring Music Ltd / Bearded Theory Festival)
Roger Barrat (STAR Events Group)
Simon James (TESS)

16:30 – 16:45 SHORT BREAK w refreshments

16:45 – 18:15 PANEL / Q&A
Emergency Planning for Crowd Safety

Chris Kemp (Bucks New Uni / ICCMSS)
Jim King (Loudsound / AEG)
Paul Cook (Live Nation)
Simon James (TESS)

18:00 – 18:15 Extended Q&A time

18:15 – 18:30 CONCLUSION & ACTION POINTS
Rudi Enos, Senior Designer of Special Structures Lab

When it came to energy and the environment, President Obama said

“Nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years. That’s right – eight years. Not only that – last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past sixteen years. But with only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, oil isn’t enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy – a strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I’m requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk.

The development of natural gas will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy. And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock – reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground.”

But President Obama had some more positive news for the environment, saying

“What’s true for natural gas is true for clean energy. In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world’s leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries. Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled. And thousands of Americans have jobs because of it.

Our experience with shale gas shows us that the payoffs on these public investments don’t always come right away. Some technologies don’t pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. I will not walk away from workers like Bryan. I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here. We have subsidized oil companies for a century. That’s long enough. It’s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that’s rarely been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that’s never been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits and create these jobs.

We can also spur energy innovation with new incentives. The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change. But there’s no reason why Congress shouldn’t at least set a clean energy standard that creates a market for innovation. So far, you haven’t acted. Well tonight, I will. I’m directing my Administration to allow the development of clean energy on enough public land to power three million homes. And I’m proud to announce that the Department of Defense, the world’s largest consumer of energy, will make one of the largest commitments to clean energy in history – with the Navy purchasing enough capacity to power a quarter of a million homes a year.

Of course, the easiest way to save money is to waste less energy. So here’s another proposal: Help manufacturers eliminate energy waste in their factories and give businesses incentives to upgrade their buildings. Their energy bills will be $100 billion lower over the next decade, and America will have less pollution, more manufacturing, and more jobs for construction workers who need them. Send me a bill that creates these jobs.”

See more at http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-01-24/state-of-the-union-transcript/52780694/1

7 February – green music event – BarCamp in Hamburg

On  Tuesday  the  7th February 2012  BarCamp will be held from  11.00 – 20.00  in the  House of Culture III & 70  in Hamburg, the first green music event, discussing sustainability and environmental protection in the music and event industry.

The agency Zuendwerke initiative and  the Green Music Initiative are invir=ting club owners, promoters and festival organizers, consultants and political representatives to this event: . The  BarCamp  is  open-ended  design and encourages the participants for active participation in  the conference. The aim is to  exchange ideas and information  about green music events:  model projects  will be presented and the  network  between the participants is to be established.

We are all looking fir through innovative approaches to emission reduction and and resource efficiency. New ideas and projects from the kusic industry can spread i nto other sectors and music is the perfect medium to positively influence the zeitgeist.

SAVE THE DATE:

Tues 07.02.2012 / KULTURHAUS III & 70 / SHOULDER LEAF 73 / HAMBURG
applications from the BarCamp, session proposals, and project and corporate presentations immediately
at:  gme@zuendwerke.de

GME BarCamp on Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/341153632569082/

Links: 

www.zuendwerke.de / projects

Second Live 2020 – study

The study Live 2020, the questions about sustainability and future viability of the live entertainment sectoris still online.  The more responses we get from various stakeholders, the better.  The starting point is a  5 minute online survey and applicants from all parts of the live entertainment sector are welcome to participate. The resuklts will be presented  in March 2012.

Click here for the questionnaire 

7. Februar – GreenMusicEvent – BarCamp in Hamburg

Am Dienstag den 07. Februar 2012 findet von 11 bis 20 Uhr im Kulturhaus III&70 in Hamburg das erste GreenMusicEvent BarCamp statt und thematisiert damit Nachhaltigkeit und Umweltschutz in der Musik- und Eventbranche.

Die InitiativAgentur Zuendwerke und die Green Music Initiative bringen zu diesem Zweck Clubbetreiber, Veranstalter und Festivalorganisatoren mit Dienstleistern, Beratern und politischen Vertretern zusammen. Das BarCamp ist ergebnisoffen gestaltet und animiert die Teilnehmer zuraktiven Mitgestaltung der Konferenz. Ziel ist der Ideen- und Informationsaustausch zum Thema GreenMusicEvents: Modellprojekte werden vorgestellt und das Netzwerk zwischen den Teilnehmern soll aufgebaut werden.

Der Klimawandel als große Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts verlangt nach Pilotprojekten abseits der ausschließlich politischen Arena, die durch innovative Ansätze Emissionen reduzieren und zur Ressourceneffizienz beitragen.
Neue Konzepte und Projekte lassen eine Strahlkraft auf andere gesellschaftliche Teilbereiche entstehen, in denen diese Themen bislang noch eher fremd sind.
Musik ist hierfür ein perfektes Medium, das es schaffen kann den Zeitgeist positiv zu beeinflussen.

SAVE THE DATE:
Di. 07.02.2012 / KULTURHAUS III&70 / SCHULTERBLATT 73 / HAMBURG
Anmeldungen zum BarCamp, Session-Vorschläge und Projekt- und Firmenpräsentationen ab sofort
unter: gme@zuendwerke.de

GME BarCamp auf Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/341153632569082/

Links:
www.zuendwerke.de/projekte

2. Live 2020 – Studie

Die Studie Live2020, die Fragen zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit und Zukunftsfähigkeit im Live-Entertainment-Sektor beleuchtet, ist weiterhin online. Je mehr Antworten wir von verschiedenen Akteuren bekommen, umso besser.
Ausgangspunkt hierfür ist eine 5 minütige Online-Umfrage, die sich an Vertreter aller Teilbereiche des Live-Entertainments richtet und zu deren Teilnahme wir dich hiermit herzlich einladen möchten. Die Ergebnisse werden im März 2012 präsentiert.

Hier gehts zum Fragebogen

http://www.thema1.de

Glyndebourne Productions have installed a wind turbine at the famous opera site, despite protests from local people who say that the sound of the turbine may affect performances. The Glyndebourne  turbine is supported by opera fan Sir David Attenborough who said that any noise issues were ‘trivial’ when compared to health and pollution issues from fossil fuels, and that the turbine was ‘elegant’ and ‘in harmony with nature’.  The Company said that 90% of the electricity required to run the opera house will now come from  renewable energy.

BP may pay out up to $25 billion to settle actions brought by the US authorities, local businesses and its own workers arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is thought BP is keen to avoid a court action, scheduled to start on February 27th in New Orleans. BP has already spent $15 billion cleaning up after the massive spill and has paid $10 billion into a Gulf compensation scheme. analysts say if BP lost the court case its potential liability could be up to $69 billion.

Meat production is one of the major contributors to global environmental degradation especially deforestation, water scarcity and loss of bio-diversity – as well as on fifth of the World’s greenhouse gas emissions – so its interesting to see that a Dutch scientist says he is close to producing laboratory grown meat – or ‘cultured’ meat.  It sounds like science fiction but Mark Post from Maastricht University claims he will be able to produce a cultured burger by the end of the year. PETA, the animal welfare group, have a separate $1 million prize available until 30th June 2012 for the first scientist to provide cultured chicken that can be grown in quantity and cannot be distinguished from real chicken. Post hopes celebrity chef Jamie Oliver will cook his first commercially produced burger.

Oil and gas company Cuadrilla felt the wrath of furious local residents at a public meeting to discuss its proposed plans to drill test for shale gas in the South East of the UK. During the meeting, held in West Sussex on January 11,, Cuadrilla’s chief executive Mark Miller met with about 200 local residents and anti-fracking protestors to discuss plans for fracking work in the area.

New Research aims to look at the local options in power grids to reduce peaks and dips associated with renewable energy and cut fossil fuel use. Work by Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will aim to overcome one of the ‘main hurdles’ to increased use of wind and solar energy. QUT’s chairman in power engineering, Professor Gerard Ledwich, said because renewable generation ‘was not predictable’ other power sources had to be used to supplement it but says he hopes to develop storage and demand management systems to make sure renewably generated power can be better stored during low usage times for use in peak periods.

The European economy could save €72bn a year if member states implemented EU waste legislation in full, according to a European Commission (EC) study. Such a move would also increase the annual turnover of the EU waste management and recycling sector by €42bn and create over 400,000 jobs by 2020.

Luxury London hotel The Langham is looking to raise recycling levels from 35% to 75% over the next 12 months and make significant cost savings in the process. The five-star hotel has appointed waste management company SWR to manage all of its waste. This will involve greater source-segregation with the installation of new bins, a cardboard baler, a bin press and a glass crushing machine.

Uncertainty continues to dog the solar industry as the Government drags the fights over subsidy cuts back to court. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is going back to London’s High Court to appeal the right, won by campaigners to have a judicial review over cuts to the Feed-In Tariff scheme (FITs). The court ruled last year the cuts, implemented durig a consultative phase, were ‘illegal’ . Ministers have made one minor concession saying that householders who installed panels after the 12th December will continue to  get the full Feed In Tariff, but only until March 2nd, when it will halve.

Boosting plastics recycling in the UK will be a “key focus” for 2012 as the sector continues to develop PET and HDPE bottles recycling technologies.  That is according to resource and recovery specialist Keith Freegard, who predicts further investment in technology and equipment capable of extracting a wider range of materials from mixed plastics collections.  And Reducing water use by 20% by 2020, compared with a 2007 baseline, in the production chain is the second key area flagged up in the British Soft Drinks Association’s (BSDA) Sustainability.

Budget airline Ryanair will add a small charge to every passenger’s costs after claiming new European emission cutting rules were ‘loony’.  The Irish based airline is furious over the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which makes large organisations monitor and report emissions. No problem for me as I don’t and won’t ever use Ryanair if I can help it as I find most of their charges stark raving mad. And train’s are much nicer anyway.

Edie.net reports that Apple has extended its reuse and recycling programme to the UK, France and Germany in the form of a customer cashback scheme for old devices.  The service has been operating out in the US for some time, but hit European shores last week. The scheme, which is being managed by Dataserv, also accepts certain non-Apple products such as desktop computers. Under the scheme, customers can hand back their used iPads, iPhones and Macs – but not iPods.

New research from two doctoral students at  Columbia University hopes to. shed some light on the slow take up of electric cars.  Researchers Garrett Fitzgerald and Rob van Haaren looked at the assumption that range anxiety is one of the main barriers to the electrification of the U.S. car fleet, the pair used a 2011 Acenture survey that showed that US drivers think they need a range of 272 miles in order to consider purchasing an electric car as their next vehicle. That’s in sharp contrast to our actual driving needs and habits which actually showed that 10% of individual car trips are under a mile, 95% of trips are under 30 miles, and 99% of all trips are under 70 miles: Urban households’ trips averaged 8.5 miles, while rural households’ trips averaged 12.1 miles. Car commuting distances were found to average just around 12.6 miles nationally, with 95% below 40 miles and 99% shorter than 60 miles – which means that an electric vehicle currently could handle the vast majority of the individual trips Americans make with no problem, especially if a recharge was available at the other end for the small amount of journeys between 30 and 70 miles. With many American households owning at least two cars it seems possible for a majority of households to have an EV as their second gas vehicle. But why do Americans crave so much range? Fitzgerald and van Haaren speculate that it’s a ‘freedom and comfort’ standard that Americans are particularly imbued with. In addition, globally consumers seem to still feel unsure that they know enough about EVs to buy one. To help change American’s knowledge base about EVs, Fitzgerald and van Haaren are planning to use  using only solar power to charge an electric vehicle as they cross the the USA giving lectures on EV technology. They will drag a trailer that can hold 7 kWp of flexible solar panels and batteries for extra juice.

Employees could save businesses and public bodies £500m and cut 2m tonnes of C02 through ‘empowerment’ according to the Carbon Trust.  The Trust has  launched an online tool to help organisations, and says engaging employees in cutting energy use, paper waste and travel could save small business more than 15% in energy costs.

The United States has, for the first time, moved “to impose catch limits for every species it manages, from Alaskan pollock to Caribbean queen conch”. That means each of the 528 commercially fished species that the U.S. oversees will have distinct catch limits that prohibit overfishing and protect stocks that are rapidly being depleted.

Welsh environment minister John Griffiths has identified food waste as a key driver in exceeding a 50% recycling target in 2012 as he urged people in Wales to recycle more. According to the minister, recycling rates in Wales have risen from just 7% in 2000 – 2001 to a peak of 48% between April to June 2011 – making recycling rates in Wales the highest in the UK. However, he warned that there was still a “long way to go” to meet the Welsh Government’s target of 70% recycling by 2025, adding that increased food waste recycling was needed.

Shanks has opened the first of two mechanical biological treatment (MBT) plants in North Cumbria as part of a 25-year £700m waste disposal contract with Cumbria County Council.  The facility based at Hespin Wood in Carlisle has opened three months ahead of schedule and aims to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by 80%. The second plant is currently under construction in Barrow and is expected to be operational by April 2013. Edie.net reports that the County Council deals with around 250,000 tonnes of household waste per annum. Each MBT plant has the capacity to process 75,000 tonnes a year, enabling up to 150,000 tonnes of waste to be processed through the facilities.

The NSW Court of Appeal has rejected implied limits in CO2 emissions case saying that Environment Protection Licence conditions will not be easily implied, and in any event must be consistent with the statutory licensing regime under which the licence was created and it seems Environment Protection Licence-holders now have more certainty about what their licence conditions are. In the case,  Peter Gray and Naomi Hodgson, two members of the climate change action Rising Tide, claimed that the Environment Protection Licence (EPL) issued to the Bayswater Power Station’s operator, Macquarie Generation, is subject to implied statutory restrictions that limit permissible CO₂ emissions into the atmosphere and restrict coal consumption at the Power Station. The NSW Court of Appeal summarily struck out the action, unanimously holding that the imposition of such implied conditions or limitations was incompatible with the existing statutory regime for EPLs. Macquarie Generation v Hodgson [2011] NSWCA 424;

The UK’s National Grid is paying millions of pounds to wind farms – to STOP producing clean energy. It seems National Grid cannot cope with the excess of electricity on windy days and last year spent £25 million turning off wind power, equating to 149,983 mega-watt hours or 1.49% of the total energy produced from wind.

The biggest wave energy facility in the world has been given the go-ahead for a site of the North East coast of Scotland in a project jointly funded by a French company Alstom and Scotland’s SSE. The generating machines (the AWS III) will be 45 metre wide giant ‘doughnuts’ and will begin operating in 2016 and the wave array will be fully operational by 2020. The rubber machines expand and contract as they are hit by waves creating pressurised air that drives turbines in ducts.

Image:  www.freefoto.com

Elektro Guzzi (Austria)
Selah Sue (Belgium)
Agnes Obel (Denmark)
Ben l’Oncle Soul (France)
Boy (Germany)
James Vincent McMorrow (Ireland)
Afrojack (Netherlands)
Alexandra Stan (Romania)
Swedish House Mafia (Sweden)
Anna Calvi (UK)

Anna Calvi said ”I am really honoured to have won this award. My father is Italian, my mother grew up in Switzerland. I don’t just feel English, I feel very European and it’s been really important for me that the record has done well in Europe as a whole”. Ireland’s James Vincent McMorrow who performed two songs at the Border Breakers Awards ceremony said “This is fantastic. I was here at Eurosonic last year and it was here where it all began. From then on it led to incredible things and this award means a lot to me”.

Coldplay - headliners of the year in 2011

The best European festivals, artists and promoters of 2011 were revealed last night at a sold out ceremony, featuring performances from James Vincent McMorrow, Selah Sue and Dog is Dead. Taking place at Groningen’s De Oosterport in The Netherlands, the third edition attracted over 350,000 public votes and had more than 200 festivals taking part from 32 different countries. The final winners, decided by a combination of public vote and industry juries, are:

Best Major European Festival – Sziget Festival (Hungary)

Best Medium-Sized European Festival – Off Festival (Poland)
Best Small European Festival – Haldern Pop (Germany)
Best New European Festival – Extrema Outdoor (Belgium)
Best Indoor Festival – I Love Techno (Belgium)
Best European Festival Line-Up – Rock Werchter (Belgium)
YOUROPE Green ‘N’ Clean Festival Of The Year – Melt! (Germany)
Artist’s Favourite European Festival – Southside / Hurricane (Germany)
Best Newcomer association with Eurosonic Noorderslag – James Blake
Best Headliner – Coldplay
Festival Anthem of the Year -  Coldplay ‘Viva La Vida’
Virtual Festivals Europe presents Promoter Of The Year – FKP Scorpio (Germany)
YOUROPE Lifetime Achievement Award – Michael Eavis, Glastonbury (UK)

Fruzsina Szep from Sziget festival made an impromptu offer to all of the guests at the Awards after receiving the Best Major Festival award , inviting everyone to join her in a drink of Palinka: “We were very much hoping to win this award and it really means a lot to us because 2012 will be the 20th edition of our festival.”

On receiving his lifetime achievement award Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis said: “42 years ago I started something on my farm towards the end of the flower power era in the 60’s and we had less than a thousand people and now we have 150,000 people registered to buy a ticket for 2013.  Thank you very much to everyone and thanks to all the people who have been involved in our show and thanks to all the people who buy tickets every year. I hope there are a few more years to go yet, another 10 years maybe.” James Drury, MD of Festival Awards Ltd, which organises the Awards said: “The further growth of the European festival awards and another record-breaking event highlights just how important festivals are to people across the continent. It’s testament to the hard work and passion of everyone involved with festivals that they continue to be so popular. With Glastonbury being the inspiration for so many festivals, I was especially delighted to welcome Michael Eavis to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been seminal in the success of the festival scene in the world.” Christof Huber, General Secretary YOUROPE added “Michael Eavis is an icon in the European festival scene and in my view, Glastonbury is the mother of all European festivals. He is just the right person to get the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Festival Awards Europe.