University of Notre Dame
IN-5: Green Event Certification

Green Event Certification helps event planners on campus to make environmentally preferable choices for advertising, menu options, and much more. The result of a collaborative effort involving the Office of Sustainability and University Catering, the program provides an easy-to-use checklist of items to consider in order to minimize the event’s environmental impact. The Certification Checklist has a required section and an optional section. The required section includes such items as avoiding individually bottled water, minimizing paper use, and working with the catering manager to reduce food waste. The optional section includes items ranging from offering a vegetarian option on the menu to electronic distribution of handouts. In order to be certified, an event needs to fulfill all five of the required items and six out of twelve of the optional items.