The Bee’s knees sustainability blog
Your Green Game Playbook
Celebrate and engage your fans with a Green Game! This free resource and Green Sports Alliance webinar walk you through three expert case studies and provide a wealth of ideas and practical steps to implement your team’s first sustainable fan activation.
Full STEAM Ahead
When inventorying event materials, RSAC 2025 Conference encountered a potential bump in the road around leftover branded merchandise. With great teamwork and a quick pivot, they turned the problem into a values-based solution, creating quick wins for sustainability and the community. Here’s how they partnered with a community organization to support STEAM education while diverting waste from the landfill.
the Life Cycle of Event Carpet
Carpet might not be the most exciting thing that comes to mind when you think about event sustainability, but its footprint is bigger than you’d expect. In this blog, we follow the full life cycle of event carpet with a fun, interactive infographic that traces its journey from manufacture to disposal, and lay out what smarter choices mean for events.
An Expert’s Take: LEED v5 O+M: EB
Sports and Venues Sustainability Coordinator Jade Strauss, LEED GA, details the changes coming to LEED v5 for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance.
Key changes and updates to the standards with v5 (O+M: EB)
What do know if your venue is looking to certify or re-certify.
Best practices for maximizing your certification process.
State of the sustainable Events industry
Translate risks into solutions! Even when confronted with industry challenges, significant innovations in sustainable events are moving the industry forward. Knowledge is power - stay informed about what is trending in our industry right now, the risks we're confronted with, and actionable steps to get in front of any negative impacts headed your way.
The Triple Win of Sustainability Sponsorships
Small budget and big sustainability dreams? Dive into the world of crafting sustainability sponsorships to support your programming, build partnerships, grow value, and generate marketing content for your events.
Building a Better Supply Chain
From local sourcing to cutting through greenwashing, our experts break down how to make sustainable procurement work for your event or venue. Get expert tips from the Honeycomb Strategies team — and start making smarter purchasing decisions today.
How to remain sustainable in uncertain times
Tight budget? Shifting plans? You can still stick to your sustainability goals. This blog shares simple, cost-effective ways to keep your efforts moving forward—without sacrificing impact or breaking the bank.
From here to there
Ground transportation can be a big piece of the carbon emissions pie for events, though we know that the environment isn't the only consideration about how to get from here to there. By examining a few common modes of event transportation, we'll show you how considering sustainability can be convenient, cost effective, and responsible.
Keeping Pace with Sustainable Sports Trends in 2025
As one of the most popular forms of entertainment and a fun way to create camaraderie, sports leads the way in cultural influence. Sports teams, venues, and events also consume a lot of resources, though, so we're following some of the hottest ways that athletics orgs are mitigating impact, planning for the future, and engaging with their fans on sustainability.