The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has changed the rules under which it decides which facilities to use for meetings; it will now include environmental achievement along with such factors as price and past performance when evaluating hotel...
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has rolled out Eco-Meet, a program option for customers who want to green their events by using nondisposable items during meetings and breaks (china and cutlery instead of plastic, white boards instead of paper flip...
Shawna Mckinley became executive director of the Green Meeting Industry Council in October 2006, about the time the topic of green meetings became the hot button of the industry. And once the media attention on green issues inevitably begins to...
A growing number of restaurants — more than 1,000 in 23 states — are earning certification through The Green Restaurant Association, a nonprofit environmental consulting group. The process involves an audit by the GRA and then a commitment to...
Environmental meeting planning company Meeting Strategies Worldwide has launched a Web-based tool, the MeetGreen Calculator, which measures more than 95 aspects of a meeting, from site selection to food and beverage to assess an event's...
Freeman, the Dallas-based exhibition services giant, has recycled more than 1 million square yards of used aisle carpet as part of a pilot program begun last July. The trade show carpet will be made into drainage pipes for septic systems. Among...
As I was preparing this special issue, which is devoted to green meetings, I looked up an article I had written on the subject in 1991. Back then, I had been inspired after returning from an event where each attendee had the chance to plant a tree...
