Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has introduced sustainable-meeting guidelines at all its North American properties and will expand the program globally in 2011.
On July 24, at the World Education Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia, Meeting Professionals International will honor the U.S. Green Building Council with a RISE Award for Organizational Achievement.
Meeting planners and suppliers can finally dig into the industry’s long-awaited sustainable meeting standards. While the new APEX green standards won’t officially launch until September or later, the first training program on how to use them will...
As images of spreading oil plumes, devastated Gulf Coast communities, and dead seabirds fill our TV screens, it’s easy to warp back and forth between a sense of futility and an urge to assign responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe...
In December 2009, during the United Nations’ 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15), Siemens AG and The Economist Intelligence Unit (a division of The Economist magazine), released the European Green City Index, a rating of the 30 major cities in...
