Saving the plant...one typo at a time

So what was the plan?

Well to introduce myself I'm a freelance marketeer with a freelance PR husband (potentially financial suicide) and a one-year-old child, plus a serious addiction to online-geekfest World of Warcraft. Please don't hold this against me!

I love the arts. Have worked in the business, darh-ling, for nearly 10 years. I also think not killing our planet is a very fine idea.

In the arts we like to think we help people live, rather than exist. Through arts, both as an audience member, a viewer and a participant or creator, we can have access to some really special life-affirming and life-changing moments. Anything which makes that claim has to think about the whole picture. The arts can't claim to enchance lives then help kill the environment we live in by poor work practices.

In my home life I'm pretty eco-friendly. I recycle, try to be energy efficient, support local businesses and get a veg/fruit organic box from a local farmer. I wanted to extend this to my work. So, after lots of research I thought, why not share the knowledge?

So, www.ArtsGoGreen.co.uk was born.

I'm launching the website at the Arts Marketing Association's (www.a-m-a.co.uk) annual conference next week. It's hardly ready but hopefully it's got enough on there to get people excited. I'm doing a 'round table' discussion event about eco-friendly arts. With amusement I noticed that it was described on the conference blurb as an 'emerging' issue. How far we are behind other industries.

Thanks for reading this. Do give your opinion and stick stuff on the forum. Even if it's to say I'm wrong, wrong, wrong! Arts Go Green is about getting more planet-friendly each day, and learning through each other...ahhhhh.