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  • Feb. 1, 2010
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    The U.S Green Building Council's Greenbuild Convention

    Whether it's Chicago, Boston, or Phoenix, when the U.S. Green Building Council comes to town for its annual convention, it leaves a green legacy in its...More
  • Feb. 1, 2010
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    Together, We Can Make a Difference

    The way the hospitality industry has pulled together to help the earthquake victims in Haiti shows what a generous industry this is...More
  • Jan. 15, 2010
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    Sustainable Meetings: Why Copenhagen Leads the Way

    More than 15,000 participants from around the world converged in Copenhagen for two weeks in December during the United Nation’s 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15). The conference was a golden opportunity to showcase an impressive array of investments and initiatives that have put Copenhagen in the forefront of green-meetings destinations. Here's a look at a few:...More
  • Dec. 8, 2009
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    Community Service at Securian

    For its contributions in supplies, money, time, and energy to an orphanage during an African incentive trip, Securian Financial Group earned a Site Crystal Award for best sustainable motivational program....More
  • Dec. 8, 2009
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    Expert Advice On: Successful Community Service

    Community service at meetings: What's been successful? ......More
  • Nov. 1, 2009
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    Give Back, Island-Style

    The United States Virgin Islands Department of Tourism is moving the concept of voluntourism from the mainland to the islands with a new collection of...More
  • Oct. 28, 2009
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    Helping Hands Rewards Give to Charity

    It's the year of the socially conscious holiday gift and there's no better place to find one than Helping Hands Rewards...More
  • Sep. 14, 2009
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    Amsterdam RAI Center Offers Green Events; Opens New Sustainable Building

    Exhibition and conference organizers headed to Amsterdam are now able to link up with Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre for help making their events at the convention center carbon-neutral...More
  • Sep. 1, 2009
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    Legal Ease's Jim Goldberg: Legally Green

    The major guidance document dealing with claims is the Federal Trade Commission's Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims, issued in 1992,...More
  • Aug. 20, 2009
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    Are You Prepared for Transition Time?

    Our industry is in the midst of some wrenching changes, but a much deeper transition is just over the horizon...More
  • Aug. 17, 2009
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    Green Meetings Standards: Call to Action

    The Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange Panel on Green Meeting and Event Practices has released the final draft of its green meetings standards and is now encouraging review and comment by the meetings industry...More
  • Aug. 1, 2009
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    Jim Goldberg’s Legal Ease: Green or Greenwashed?

    How to tell the real deal from an environmental marketing ploy...More
  • Jul. 1, 2009
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    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...More
  • Jul. 1, 2009
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    Eco-Tools

    These online calculators can help you estimate the impact of your green efforts...More
  • Jul. 1, 2009
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    14 Green Questions for Your Hotel

    Straight from the EPA to your RFP....More
  • Jul. 1, 2009
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    How to Save by Going Green

    A few examples of specific savings from going green...More
  • Jul. 1, 2009
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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...More
  • Jul. 1, 2009
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    Green? Prove It

    It was about this time in 2008 that APEX formed a group known as the Green Meetings and Events Practices Panel...More
  • Jul. 1, 2009
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    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...More
  • Jun. 16, 2009
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    Green Is as Green Does: The IMEX Awards

    The 2009 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, wrapped up at the end of May in Frankfurt, Germany...More
  • May 25, 2009
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    The Gurus of Green Empower Planners, Cities

    Aiming for a more recognizable brand and a sharper focus for their company, Amy Spatrisano and Nancy Wilson, co-founders of Meeting Strategies Worldwide, have renamed the company MeetGreen...More
  • Apr. 1, 2009
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    Do-Good Events

    British pharmaceutical firm Norgine celebrated its 100th anniversary by helping some of the humblest people in the world. For its “Century of Excellence: Making a Difference” conference, the company built housing in Mabele-A-Podi, a township outside of Sun City, South Africa, where many children have lost both parents to AIDS. Follow them and other companies as they make giving back part of their meetings...More
  • Apr. 1, 2009
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    Companies Add CSR Activities in Place of Pure R&R

    Innovative—and politically correct—ways for attendees to network, relax, and give back...More
  • Mar. 16, 2009
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    GMIC’s Million Tons of Trash Challenge

    The Green Meeting Industry Council, an association dedicated to sustainability for meetings and events, has a challenge for the industry...More
  • Mar. 2, 2009
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    17 Cities to Host Discussions about Green Meetings

    People interested in the standards being created for greening meetings and events will have an opportunity to comment on them starting the week of March 16, when the first phase of city discussion groups (CDGs) rolls out, according to an announcement made at the Greening the Hospitality Industry Conference, organized by the Green Meeting Industry Council in Pittsburgh last week....More

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