As a follow-up to the How Green Is Your Event workshop I led last April, my friends at Road Race Management asked me to compile a Guide To Greener Running Events. The booklet is now available to order, and I hope the race directing community will find it to be a useful compendium of trends and ideas for making a running event–or any participant sporting event, for that matter–more environmentally responsible.

Highlights of the booklet include a summary of the results of a survey of some 100 race directors about their environmental policies and practices as well as a snapshot of what 29 different races are doing to reduce their environmental impact.

I hope you’ll check out the descriptive blurb on Road Race Management’s Web site.

By the way, if you wanted to attend my green events workshop last April, but could not, please note that I’ll be speaking on the topic again at Road Race Management’s Annual Race Directors’ Meeting in Hollywood Beach, Florida on Friday, November 7, 2008. You can learn more about the conference and download a PDF of the meeting brochure here.