July 2009 CMI
Keynotes
Open World, Green World
Oracle OpenWorld brings together roughly 40,000 Oracle customers, users, partners, and others every fall at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Vice President...
Green Stars Shine at IMEX
The 2009 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, wrapped up at the end of May in Frankfurt,...
Green Report Card
The International Association of Conference Centers has launched a Code of Sustainability to encourage member properties to follow environmentally sound...
In the Eco-Event Zone
Amy Spatrisano and Nancy Wilson, who have been in the vanguard of the green meetings movement since the early 1990s, are working on their latest Big Idea....
Features
How Companies That Are Cutting Back Keep Their Meetings Green
Even in an economic crisis, green practices and long-term sustainability goals should not take a backseat to the bottom line...
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...
Green? Prove It
It was about this time in 2008 that APEX formed a group known as the Green Meetings and Events Practices Panel...
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...
Sites
There's No Place Like Vegas: The 10th Annual Las Vegas Corporate Invitational
By all accounts, the Entertainment Capital of the World has had a tough time with publicity lately, but the 10th Annual Las Vegas Corporate Invitational Golf Tournament proved that no one can do it the way Vegas can...
Barbara Scofidio's Check In: Green It and Mean It
If all goes well with the green meetings voluntary standards being developed by the Accepted Practices Exchange, an initiative of the Convention Industry Council, it will be harder to greenwash from now on because there will be established ways to measure green meetings and suppliers...
Green in Greensboro
The Proximity Hotel, which opened in late 2007 in Greensboro, N.C., is the first hotel to obtain LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)...
The Southwest
With its blue skies, Technicolor sunsets, indigenous charm, and great values at some of the most highly rated meeting facilities in the world, the sunny...
On Location: Spain in Paradise
Inspired by the Andalusia region of southern Spain, the InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa opened its 253 guest rooms and 40 suites in November...
Venue Updates: “Green” Property News
The News: The property received Green Hospitality Certification in April from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM). It is the state’s first hotel to run on 100% renewable energy...
Post Con
Nancy Wilson, CMP
Principal, MeetGreen; blogger, Pretentious Musings of a MeetGreen Martyr co-founder, Green Meeting Industry Council; co-author, Simple Steps to Green...
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