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The Green Meeting Industry Council will launch a wide-ranging training and education program to support the new APEX/ASTM sustainable event standards....More

New green meeting standards produced by the Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) and the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) were released on February 16....More

If you’re looking at food and beverage as an area where you can make your meetings more sustainable, it may be tougher than you think....More

Here are five stories from 2011, any or all of which could reshape the industry for years to come....More

Cvent began supporting the Suparna Ka Aangan orphanage in New Delhi, India, in January 2010....More

Tammi Runzler, senior vice president of convention sales and services for Visit Orlando, has launched a charitable organization to help earthquake victims in Haiti....More

Planning greener meetings doesn’t have to be complicated and it certainly doesn’t have to be expensive....More

With team members who hail from call centers to the executive suite, John Hancock Financial Services gains employee loyalty, community goodwill, and client relationship-building from its participation in a high-end charity bike ride. Plus, mega-celeb and NFL star Tom Brady is a part of it....More

Host Hotels & Resorts has honored the Westin Denver Downtown Hotel for its commitment to environmental improvements....More

Thrivent Financial’s Director of Event Planning and Recognition Dan Young, CMP, had an epiphany several years ago. He weighed the time, money, and effort involved in setting up a community service activity at a meeting against the value of the project to the recipient organization and the benefit to Thrivent meeting attendees, and found the equation out of balance....More

How one company got its resort partner to make additional environmental upgrades every year...More

If you take green initiatives to the extreme, “the only real solution is not to have the meeting at all, which is not exactly a great business development strategy.”...More