Sustainable Business Consultants – Inspirational Speakers – Writers – Facilitators
This blog is written by Michael Luehrs and Guy Bigwood, with help from a few invited guests.
Named as meeting industry “Green Leaders”, the blog was created to share experiences, opinions, best practices and mistakes from the front line of sustainability and the meetings industry.
Guy Bigwood
Guy’s mission is to increase the sustainability of the events industry. He is responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at MCI, the world´s largest integrated event and association management company. With 1200 staff in 5 continents, Guy runs one of the most comprehensive CSR programs in the industry.
Recognized as a “green leader”, and one of the 50 most influential people in the meetings industry, Guy is the past-president of the Green Meeting Industry Council, and a pioneer on creating sustainable destinations.
He helps governments, associations and business to engage and build dynamic communities to advance the transition to the sustainable global economy. Current destination transformation projects include Copenhagen, Gothenburg and the Costa Del Sol with advisory work for the Global Reporting Initiative and the UN Global Compact.
During the last 3 years he has delivered over 116 keynote presentations and workshops inspiring over 15000 people to get into action about sustainability and CSR. See a video of guy in Keynote action
Michael Luehrs
Michael is the MCI Sustainability Services manager, responsible for promoting sustainable practices within the MCI organization and to MCI’s clients.
As President-elect of the Green Meeting Industry Council, Michael is recognized as an industry expert on sustainability in the meetings industry.
In 2009 Michael led consulting projects with the World Business Summit on Climate Change, the International Climate Change Conference, European Wind Energy Conference and the COP15 UN Climate Conference, where he led and achieved BS8901 certification. He is currently supporting the Danish Government to achieve ISO20121 certification for their management of the EU Presidency.
He has over 17 years of experience in the hotel industry with proven talent in sustainable business development, education and management of sound environmental operational plans.
He was formerly the Director of Operations and Sustainability Coordinator at the award winning Hilton Portland Double Tree where he proudly repositioned the hotel as one of the leading green hotels in the US. He helped the hotel win 6 “green” awards including the Green Seal Certification and the State of Oregon’s Sustainability Award
Developing Standards
Guy and Michael are highly involved in the BS8901, ISO250, GRI and APEX Standard development processes for the meetings industry. See this article if you want to know more about these standards.
Together they have written numerous whitepapers, reports and are currently researching for a book.
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