Posted on July 15, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
Next week, in sunny Vancouver, BC, Meeting Professionals International will present the 2010 World Education Congress. There, the Green Meetings Industry Council will present for the first time ever an introduction to the APEX/ASTM Green Meetings and Events standard. A day long training session will provide attendees an understanding of how these standards are organized [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
A review of any poll on the topic will reveal that meeting planners, suppliers and destinations like very much the idea of sustainable events as a practice and philosophy. Dig a little deeper and many are challenged where to start. People understand the ‘why’ of sustainable events, but so often express confusion–or frustration– on the [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
When it comes to sustainable events, most professional meetings planners understand the ’why’ but not the ’how’. An intrepid few invest time and effort to piece together different tactics in support of a more responsible event, but rarely does the approach have any strategic plan. Rarer still are the events which produce a thoughtful report [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
Further to an early presentation given at Green Meetings Germany, the attached document provides a short and sweet summary about developing Sustainable Meetings standards. Driven by industry professionals seeking clear, uniform definitions of a sustainable event or green meeting, two separate and unique voluntary processes are available to meeting planners, organizers and industry suppliers: BS8901 [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2009 by Michael Luehrs
The US-based initiative to create new voluntary standards for sustainable events will, once finalized and accepted, drive real change in markets beyond US borders. If you have any interest, business or personal with sustainable practices within the meetings industry (and if you’re reading this, you do!), you have a vested interest in the outcome of [...]
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