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
Green? Prove It
It was about this time in 2008 that APEX formed a group known as the Green Meetings and Events Practices Panel...
Eco-Tools
These online calculators can help you estimate the impact of your green efforts...
Green Leaders
Green meetings. Corporate social responsibility. Voluntourism. What used to be the purview of a select few socially conscious meeting planners is fast becoming standard practice in our industry...
Lean and Green
Even in an economic crisis, green practices and long-term sustainability goals should not take a backseat to the bottom line...
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....
Finding a Green Venue
When Maja Leibovitz, president and CEO of Serious Celebrations, a New York-based event-management company, was asked by a financial services client to...
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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Association Day: How to Plan a Winning International Meeting
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