Sustainable Events Dog Walk (Podcast)

Is your marketing and communication strategy excluding people inadvertantly? In this episode you learn about Alycia's background with accessibility and disability, then some quick tips to make sure your digital media is always hitting the mark for accessibility to boost your inclusivity. UPDATE - Thanks to the Accessibility education community I have learned that including your image description i...

This week Alycia is thinking about what Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson was sharing - we [humanity] already have everything we need to solve the climate crisis... how does this feeling parlay into optimism for how possible it is to make your work more sustainable to? Alycia thinks yes. Books referenced: What If We Get It Right , by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson How We Gather Matters , by Leor Rotchild F...

We need to prioritize making some progress all the time, rather than waiting for a perfect opportunity or big win, when it comes to implementing sustainable improvements in our businesses. Alycia covers: mindset, some ideas of what counts, how to give yourself credit, and why it's so important to recognize when you're focused on making small progress instead of waiting for perfection. Follow @Posi...

Follow @PositiveImpactEventConsulting on YouTube to get the video feed! To ask a question for a future walk email: AlyciaDrubeEvents {at} gmail.com or go to the Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduKevDmLDOr2HhNORhM8giycd1VOOgYGObHXFyD_OhWFCtpQ/viewform?usp=sf_link To engage with Positive+Impact Event Consulting to make your Event Business and Events you work on more sustainabl...

This week is a little break to reflect on some "Hard Truths with Alycia." All event sustainability professionals have the same lessons. Our solutions are harmonized and straight forward - the question is, why do we keep repeating ourselves? If everyone has hard the same 10 straight forward solutions but they are not in effect a majority of the time there must be another element holding the whole i...

In this episode, I dive into the premise of event planning as a powerful form of leadership. Event planners shape environments that influence attendees' actions, ideas, and emotions, making us natural leaders in the process. I how to incorporate sustainability as a benefit of your leadership. I share my perspective on how we, as event professionals, can lead by example—setting high standards, infl...

The best tool for staying on top of a hard tasks, like with Sustainability, to make a big impact is a Growth Mindset. Basically, it is a mental framework for approaching life that helps reduce the impact of "failure" and "difficulty" by remembering and understanding that failure is inevitable but also a learning opportunity. Challenges are growth prompts that help you get better. And when working...

In this episode, I talk about using psychology and behavioral economics to influence your sustainability outcomes at your events. I use meal choices as my example for how preset selections can influenced your attendees do what you're hoping they will do. I explain how “nudges” can guide attendees toward more sustainable options. I reference the book Thinking Fast and Slow; the research of Daniel K...

Post sinusitis/generic anger sinus issue my voice is weak but it made me think of how in nature (like my sinuses) you can accidentally change the baseline expectations or habituate to a new scenario by just experiencing it once. And that made me think of how valuable it is to plan ahead to help habituate clients and stakeholders to the scenario we WANT them to think of as the baseline, rather than...

What are the steps you need to take to make Composting and Recycling a reliable (and valid) sustainability choice at your event? This episode covers that and a breakdown of the pros and cons of rentals by comparison. Alycia breaks down shipping, returning, washing, fabrication, and longevity of the items with BBJ La Tavola as the demo rental company. This is not an ad, BBJ La Tavola is not a spons...

Looking at current affairs this week, Alycia breaks down some considerations in the Personal Health/Wellbeing pillar of Sustainability and how to keep an eye on invisible background erosion to your mental and physical health and how that may be present for your clients, stakeholders, and attendees too. One way to combat this overwhelm is remembering Progress Over Perfection means aim for a smaller...

In this episode, we evaluate the surprising environmental costs of AI. From its massive energy demands to the water used in cooling data centers, AI's impact extends far beyond the digital world. Did you know that some companies implementing AI have reversed their carbon-neutral goals, backsliding by as much as 60%? Alycia challenges you to think differently about AI, viewing it as a resource-inte...

When considering travel for your events what are the TRAVEL factors you need to consider? In this overview episode about Sustainability with regard to Travel I break it down into 3 considerations: 1. Your professional travel, and the travel of your conference attendees are NOT the major problem that airlines and other pollutors want you to believe. 2. Look out for variations in the baseline sustai...

Why should you being thinking about sustainability? What will is DO for your business? Sometimes we have the energy to do better because we can, sometimes we need to know that there are direct benefits to us and our bottom line when we choose to do better. This week we cover what the "sustain" in sustainability refers to, then think seriously about whether not having knowledge and marketing around...

Politics are looking really scary right now... and we spent 2025 hearing about how DEI and Sustainability are dead. And of course efforts have been made to quash them BUT Sustainability and the pillars within it are genuinely GOOD BUSINESS so they will not be dead. In this episode I give you permission to make good choices and act in the best way you can and you can call it Sustainability or you c...

Let's talk about gifting! What considerations can you be making to ensure you feel good about your business gifting this year. This is as much sustainability talk as business coaching. Always remember to ask "Why?" with all your choices. Follow @PositiveImpactEventConsulting on YouTube to get the video feed! To ask a question for a future walk email: AlyciaDrubeEvents {at} gmail.com or go to the G...

A lesson from Positive Psychology - use positive framing to keep your communication concrete and improve the chances your audience remembers what you want them to know. We cover: Negation processing difficulty - the brains inclination to omit or not process negating words like "not" or "don't" and act on concrete concepts. e.g. Telling yourself "don't spill... don't spill... don't spill" while wal...

Getting started in making your events and event business more sustainable is easier than you think! Step One: start measuring what you are doing now, no changes necessary! By setting your baselines for your business activities, the practices of your vendors, and of your individual events you'll be able to share your improvements once you start making more conscientious choices. Follow @PositiveImp...

*One Simple Change TODAY* With this small change in your planning you are eradicating your assumptions by systematically ASKING whether you can dispose of your waste the way you think you can with your venues and sites. Follow @PositiveImpactEventConsulting on YouTube to get the video feed! To ask a question for a future walk email: AlyciaDrubeEvents {at} gmail.com or go to the Google Form: https:...

YES! Believe it or not, where you BANK is a big indicator of your overall Economic Sustainability because while your money sits in checking, savings, retirement, the institution you bank with is investing and recycling your money. By choosing who to bank with you indicate your priorities of where you want it invested (and how much of the profit goes back to you instead of making the bankers rich.)...

Breaking down name badges from the basis of Environmental Sustainability, Social/Community Sustainability, Personal Health/Wellbeing Sustainability, and Economic Sustainability. Name badges may be tough to crack but if you treat every element of your event as a metric to tweak for 1% growth on sustainability, you'll be surprised how many ways you can improve. Follow @PositiveImpactEventConsulting...

On this walk with Renee (she only rolls in the leaves once) we break down break down Sustainability efforts into the 4 Pillars outlined by Positive+Impact Event Consulting. To reference the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals visit: https://sdgs.un.org/goals Follow @PositiveImpactEventConsulting on YouTube to get the video feed! To ask a question for a future walk email: AlyciaDrubeEvents...

In event management we talk a lot about the "why" knowing the reason and goals behind your event helps you make better choices. This week I dive into why I started the podcast, got into events, and how you can use those feelings to cultivate your "why" behind elevating your positive impact. Follow @PositiveImpactEventConsulting on YouTube to get the video feed! To ask a question for a future walk...

In celebration for my anniversary of releasing the 1st episode as well as the monumental 50th episode I am sharing with you the parts of my recording that usually hit the "cutting room floor" all Renee chat, no Sustainability chat. You may end up using this episode as a little mental break when you need to go on a short walk to talk to dogs, birds, squirrels and puppies. Follow @PositiveImpactEven...

In this episode I walk you through my experience at Seattle Coffee Festival and what they did to have GREAT SUCCESS at their sustainability initiative. They were working on reducing landfill waste and aiming for a compostable waste festival. It went super well, hear what worked, what needs improvement for next time, and hopefully take away a better understanding of how to jump in and start making...