Events worth your time
Sustainability Lineup is a directory of conferences where sustainability professionals gather to share, learn, connect, and move the work forward. Events range from general sustainability management to targeted topics (e.g. circularity) to industry-specific gatherings emphasizing sustainability (e.g. sustainability in healthcare).
Our inclusion criteria Every listed event must meet these:
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Sustainability is the subject. The program is about sustainability practice — climate, ESG, circularity, carbon, resilience, and related work. Not a conference for an industry that is sustainability-adjacent, and not a sustainability track inside a general business event.
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Built for sustainability professionals. Content aimed at people doing the work, whatever their sector or seniority.
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Open registration. Anyone who wants to attend can register. Not invite-only or members-only.
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A half day or more. Enough programming to be worth the trip — not a webinar or a single session.
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In the United States. For now. National, regional, and local events are all welcome.
What we don't list
- Trade shows and expos, where the exhibit floor is the main event. (A conference with an exhibit hall is still a conference.)
- Vendor-hosted events, sales summits, and user conferences.
- Academic and research conferences.
- Career and professional-development events.
- Association business meetings, member summits, and internal convenings.
- Events for the general public.
These criteria guide our decisions, but they don't make them for us. Curation involves judgment, and some events sit right on the line. If we've missed an event worth your time, or listed one that isn't, tell us.
Widely sourced, human-curated
We find events two ways — automated tools that scan the web, and direct submissions from organizers and the sustainability community. However an event reaches us, a person reviews it against our inclusion criteria before it's added. The result is a directory you can trust — saving you time and helping you decide where to show up.
Automated discovery
Automated tools scan the web for new and updated events, checking known organizers and surfacing new candidates from across the sustainability landscape.
Human input and review
Events submitted directly by organizers, recommended by members of the sustainability community, or flagged by the curator — then reviewed against our inclusion criteria.
Who's Behind The Lineup
I needed a list that stayed current and was easy to use. So I built it.
I've worked in sustainability for over 15 years — in-house and as an independent consultant. Conferences are how this field stays connected, and I've spent too much time tracking dates, chasing down new events, and catching early bird deadlines. Clients ask me where they should go to learn more and meet people doing similar work, and there wasn't one resource I could provide. I decided to build what I wished was available.
Sustainability Lineup is a project of One Small Step Sustainability Consulting. One Small Step provides fractional (part-time) sustainability leadership, project-based consulting, and advisory services for small and medium-sized businesses. If your business is navigating growing sustainability expectations — from strategy and disclosure to carbon accounting — we'd love to connect.