Posted in Green, Meeting Planning, tagged environment, Event, event management, event planning, freight, Gather, logistics, meeting, planning on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m always looking for different ways to “go green” with our meetings. Something I hadn’t considered until reading this article by Hunter Slaton of Meetings & Conventions Magazine is that even the method of delivering shipments to your event has an environmental impact.
Luckily, there are a couple of freight companies offering carbon-offset options. I’ll certainly be [...]
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Posted in Green, Housing, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged element, environment, Event, event planning, Gather, Green, hotel, LEED, meeting, starwood, venue on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Starwood is fighting the good fight when it comes to the “green movement”. They have pledged that their new line of hotels, Element, based on the Westin concept, will all be built to the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED-Certification standards.
Hospitality Net has a great article with lots of detail about the concept, including how Element [...]
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Posted in Event Marketing, Green, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged environment, Event, event planning, Gather, greenwashing, marketing, meeting, planning, venue on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you ever noticed that when you stay in a hotel, even if you give all the right cues during your stay, your towels still get washed every day? Or that the cleaning crew in your office tosses all of the refuse from the trash cans and the recycle bins into the same dumpster?
Nancy Wilson, [...]
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Posted in Event Marketing, Green, Meeting Planning, tagged environment, Event, event planning, Gather, meeting, planning, trend on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
What are some of the top trends to watch for in the meetings industry this year?
The biggest trend happens to be my favorite topic - green meetings. This initiative is picking up steam, and there are some great resources available if you are just starting to look into improving your meeting’s environmental impact. I’ve written [...]
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Why is producing a “green” meeting so important? Why do I write about green meetings so often?
Well, let’s think about how many people we affect. The annual scientific meeting for the society I work for brings more than 7,000 people together in one place every year. That’s 7,000 opportunities to reduce an individual’s environmental footprint [...]
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Posted in Green, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged environment, Event, event planning, Gather, Green, meeting, planning, venue on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
More on Green Meetings:
Whenever possible, use a LEED-Certified venue. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a system that the U.S. Green Building Council uses to rate buildings by the number of points achieved in sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, indoor environmental quality and innovation.
There are a number of LEED-Certified [...]
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Posted in Green, Meeting Planning, Tools, tagged CIC, environment, Event, event planning, Gather, GMIC, Green, meeting, PCMA, planning, tips on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Since it’s such an important topic, here is another post on green meetings. I’m still finding new resources, as I continue to do research for my own convention, and of course, I’ll post whatever I find on gather.
Some handy online resources include:
BlueGreen Meetings - www.bluegreenmeetings.com
This is actually a site run by the Green Meetings Industry [...]
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Posted in Green, Meeting Planning, tagged CIC, environment, Event, event planning, Gather, Green, meeting, PCMA, planning, tips on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Can meetings truly be environmentally friendly? I like to think so. In fact, I’m being paid to think so for the first time this year. Our annual scientific meeting is being promoted as our Society’s first “green meeting”.
The Convention Industry Council (CIC) has defined a green meeting as “a meeting or event that incorporates environmental [...]
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