Green Meetings
Welcome to the Green Meetings page where you will find resources related to environmentally conscious meeting planning and trends.
Meetings' Footprint powerpoints
Green Meetings: Cost Effective Ways to Reduce Your Meetings' Footprint
Presentations from Rebecca Mebane, director of conferences and meetings for the National Recycling Coalition and Harry Lewis, attorney advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, given at Destinations Showcase in Washington, D.C. on February 7.
NRC Destination Showcase (pdf)
EPA Going Green Showcase (pdf)
NRC Green Meeting Policy (pdf)
Featured Articles
GMIC Looks for New Leader; Green Meetings Google Group Formed
The Green Meeting Industry Council has begun its official search for a new executive director to replace Shawna McKinley who has held the position since October 2006....
News From the 2008 Green Hospitality Conference
There was a buzz around this year’s Greening the Hospitality Industry conference, held in Vancouver February 19 to 21. ...
What Makes A Meeting Green?
In February, ASTM International and the Environmental Protection Agency took a major step toward creating universal standards for green meetings. In conjunction...
Green Meeting Confab
Green meeting experts, meeting planners, and hoteliers looking to learn more about the biggest trend in the industry will gather in Vancouver, B.C., February 19 to 21 for the 2008 Greening the Hospitality Industry Conference. ...
IMEX Green Winners
Last week, IMEX, the incentive and meeting exhibition, drew 3,500 hosted buyers to Frankfurt, Germany. ...
Green Learning Lab at Meeting Professionals International PEC-Europe
Using its recent Professional Education Conference–Europe as it resource laboratory, Meeting Professionals International has released a white paper that, it says, reaffirms the impact effective “learning” meetings have on ROI for both the meeting planner and the attendee....
Green Build Best Practices
International Association of Conference Centers Seminar...
Zero-Waste Meeting: Professional Convention Management Association 2007
For the Professional Convention Management Association, the 2007 annual meeting, held in Toronto January 7 to 10, marked a series of firsts. It was the...
Green Meeting Archives
Conference Centers Go Green
The International Association of Conference Centers in late June commissioned a Green Task Force to educate and inspire member conference centers to conserve...
2007 Paragon Awards
You've voted, and here are the results. Take a look at your top picks for the 50 best places to meet....
How Can You Get Started?
Check out these Resources for more about Greening your Meetings: Green Meeting Industry Coucil Focused on the development and dissemination of resources...
Green Event Planning
Organic Catering Has Events Seeing Green
ORGANIC food has left behind its hippie associations and moved into upscale supermarkets and acclaimed restaurants. And although its progress at catered events has been slow, interest in “green” catering is growing....
How Special Events Are Going 'Green' to Protect the Environment
WHILE ONE CRITICISM of the event industry is its tendency to create waste, many event professionals are developing more environmentally sensitive special events. Here, event experts describe the steps they are taking to reduce waste and to ensure the longevity of the planet, as well as the profession. ...
CIC issues 'green meetings' report
The Convention Industry Council todayreleased the "Green Meetings Report," the result of CIC's Green MeetingsTask Force's work. The report is a series of guidelines for simple cost effective ways to plan and host environmentally sensitive meetings. ...
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What Meeting Planners Need to Know to Manage E-Meetings
Virtual meetings save time and money, get a thumbs-up from the “green” crowd, and offer new ways for companies and organizations to communicate, market, and sell. It’s time for meeting managers to start booking and managing them.
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Meet Powershop: The Next Generation of APEX Tools
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 2:00 PM ET
Curious about the breakthrough application that allows meeting planners and suppliers to send event specs back and forth in a standardized format? Join the leaders of APEX, an initiative of the Convention Industry Council, in a must-attend webinar introducing Powershop.
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CVB Supplement 2008
The Changing Face of CVBs
Featuring:*Changing Face of CVB's
*CVB's Go Green
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