national and international Planetarium conferences.
The idea is to collect a list of “Best practices” that can be useful for all the colleagues interested in organizing their Planetarium Conferences keeping attention to the following topics:
What can do Planetarium Conference organizers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before and during the event?
What can do the people involved during a Planetarium Conference to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
List of some key words about education and action-planning resources:
Give presentations or information about our actions that can cause or reduce climate change.
Give suggestions about the role that we can play in our job, for example during the projections under the planetarium dome.
Learn from other colleagues. Investigate what other Planetariums and organizations are doing to educate their audiences on climate change.
Estimate your emissions and take the challenge.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Recycle conference paper left over, other publications, beverage containers, electronic equipment and batteries.
Reducing, reusing, and recycling during the Conference (and during our job at the Planetarium) is a way to keep attention to these topics. Among our public young generations and schools play an important role. The example showed by our organization is important to focus the attention of students around the question “What we can do to reduce, reuse and recycle?”. “The “3 R” rule” can help to conserve energy, reduce pollution and greenhouse gases from resource extraction, manufacturing and disposal.
We can reduce, reuse, and recycle at Planetarium and during our Conference by using two-sided printing and copying, buying supplies made with recycled content, and recycling used printer cartridges. For your old electronics, donate used equipment to other organizations.
The “non-green” conference details that bother me revolve mostly around the items used for eating and drinking. SO much plastic and paper is used in the consumption of food and drink. Could conference attendees be given a hot beverage mug, bottle of water (and water stations for refilling), and utensils that are expected to be reused rather than thrown away? If it is in the “welcome bag”, then attendees have these items available.
Also, the company, Green Guru, in Boulder, Colorado , USA, takes trade show banners, and puts them to reuse by making bicycling bags (messenger bags, handelbar bags, panniers). Consider finding a local company that can take fabric banners and use them in other ways. Dee
Earth Day, each year in April.
Please, send your suggestions to Loris Ramponi
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