Viability to evaluate waste, energy use of Tulip Time Festival

on Apr 19 in Viability in the News

Andrea Goodell
The Holland Sentinel – April 19, 2009

Holland, MI — Hundreds of thousands of people over eight days adds up to a lot of half-eaten elephant ears, gasoline to get here and electricity to power up the stage lights.

A Tulip Time sponsor and Holland-based sustainable business services company, Viability LLC, will evaluate the festival’s waste and its energy use.

“The mindset of the public is starting to change. It’s no longer acceptable to not think of those other costs,” said Dan Kuipers of Viability. Those “other costs” are things like the impact on the environment and society.

“The yardstick we’re using to measure the impact is carbon dioxide,” he said.

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