Carbon Neutral: It's the New Shade of Green for Meetings

Move over, green meeting. Enter the carbon-neutral event. When you bring groups together for a meeting, you increase greenhouse gases as people fly and drive to your event. While there, attendees consume many megawatts of electricity and produce enormous amounts of waste. Some meeting organizers and sponsors are offsetting those easily measurable carbon emissions by purchasing or investing in carbon-offset projects, which are renewable energy, energy-efficiency, or reforestation projects in