Environmental Responsibility: Using data
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Understanding data is a powerful tool for taking action and our project planning has been informed by data from Julie’s Bicycle (Manchester’s Zero Carbon Culture Guide) and Music Declares Emergency (MDE). The project team are aware of the severity of the climate crisis and the need to act now, and why offsetting alone is not effective, informed by data in the MDE Climate Pack. This has shaped our decision to create an action plan for this project (see below). We have started using ecolibrium’s travel carbon app for personal travel to better understand the data in the Climate Pack and…
Last year one of our festival partners did an audience survey which included how people got to our event. 85% of people travelled by car. We have used this data to plan our project to try and reduce this. We have selected a venue that is on key public transport routes and will consider travel times when deciding the timings of the performance. We have also decided to work with Vision22 as a project partner as they were previously successful in delivering a local carshare scheme. We also consulted other festivals we have worked with about their audience travel data and found that…
As textiles will be the main material for the installation, we have planned this project using data on the environmental impact of different materials. This has included data from The Waste and Resources Action Programme and Fashion For Good such as the environmental and ecological impact of cotton (10,000-20,000 gallons of water to make a denim item). We have used this data to shape the design of the project by…