Role Of Sustainability In Special Events

Jenna Lubben

Individual Report 1

HTM 399

Sustainability in Special Events

March 11, 2016

Scope

This report is going over the content of the acts of Sustainability in the Special events, specifically Super Bowls and the Olympics. These are such large events that involve many people from around the world. This report goes over and talks about the different groups, programs, and other reports that are held or created for these specific events.

Research

Super Bowls

Each Super Bowl is located in different cities around the United States, they cities know many years in advance that they will be hosting the Super Bowl and start their planning right away. This planning is made up of many different committees. The one that we are focusing

on is a committee called the “Host Committee.” The Host Committee is the committee that focuses on the sustainability that the Super Bowl can bring to the area and they also engineer and make sure there are ways that the event is indeed sustainable.
The most recent Super Bowl 50, held in California, Host committee publicized their goals on their webpage that include the following retrieved from (SF SB Host Committee)::
• Reducing our impact on climate change
• Using resources and materials responsibly
• Inspiring fans to embrace sustainability personally
• Leaving a positive legacy for the region
These committees also plan events and kick start programs. The Super Bowl XLVI, which was hosted in Indianapolis, Indiana, publicized their Sustainability Report showing all of their different programs that they started including the following retrieved from (Keown):
• Community Programs
o Planting Trees
o Electronic Recycling
o Super City Clean and Green Day
o NGL Super Kids- Super Sharing Day
o Other Volunteer Programs
• Recycling and Waste Reduction Programs
o Recycling everywhere throughout Indianapolis
o Composting
o Renewable Energy
• Green Infrastructure
o Street improvement projects
o Center or attraction construction
Olympics
Olympics, much like the Super Bowl, effect a vast amount of people except for on a universal scale, for the Olympics is celebrated and taken part in by people all over the world.

The people it especially effects is those of the host city as well as the host city as well. The Olympics Organizing Committee is the committee that is in charge of the sustainability planning that goes on many years in advance. These are in depth programs that are done throughout the years prior to the Olympics coming to the host city, as there are four years in between each Olympic event.

The upcoming Olympics are located in Rio Grande, Brazil. The Organizing committee has made public their sustainability report, with some of the events and programs that have already been implemented for the past couple of years already. This report includes items such as the following information retrieved from (Rio 2016 Organising Committee):

• Planet: reduced environment footprint

o Transportation and logistics

o Sustainable construction and urban improvements

o Environmental conservation and clean-up

o Waste

management
• People: Games for everybody
o Involvement and raising awareness
o Universal accessibility
o Diversity and inclusion
• Prosperity: responsibility and transparency
o Sustainable supply chain
o Management and transparency
Key Findings
The Key findings in all of the research would be that all major special events have a sustainability conscience.

They have continuously over the most previous years become more extensive, implemented, and complete. These reports and committees that are formed are vital for the future generations of this world. The mass amount of people and areas that these events affect and the programs that are made and carried out there reach out to the world, so to speak, and this way they are able to affect the lives and how people live their lives in the future.

Special Events Sustainability Committees, programs, and reports change people’s ways of living. They make the areas they affect better off, they make the people who live or visited more aware, and they help to make the world of tomorrow slowly become a more sustainable place to live.

References

Keown, S. (2012, July). Super Bowl XLVI Sustainabiltiy Report. Retrieved March 8, 2016, from

https://secure.in.gov/idem/recycle/files/superbowl_sustainability_report.pdf
SF SB Host Committee, (n.d.). Sustainability - Super Bowl 50. Retrieved March 8, 2016, from http://www.sfbaysuperbowl.com/community/sustainability#xyVrzPdj5pOWt026.97
Rio 2016 Organising Committee. (2013, March). Sustainability Management Plan: Rio 2016™ Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved March 8, 2016, from http://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/parceiros/sustainability_management_plan_aug2013.pdf