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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)


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The EPA's Green Meeting Tips

Some of the most progressive green meetings policies are emerging not from the private sector but from the U.S. Government, specifically the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive...

Be Green: 14 Questions for Your Hotel

The Environmental Protection Agency requires meeting venues to complete a questionnaire about environmentally preferable features and practices in use at their facilities...

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...

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...


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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

Planners can find green venues or hotels at several sites...


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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