PCMA: Partners in sustainable event education

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Michael Luehrs

Dateline San Diego, PCMA Convening Leaders conference The cup runneth over. Not since GMICs Sustainable Events conference has so much high quality, relevant educational content been available to the events professional. The Professional Conference Managers Association (PCMA) has worked hard to feature relevant and timely sessions to help planners understand sustainability as smart business. Education [...]

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Leadership in CSR: An award for…MCI Berlin!

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

As part of a continuing effort to promote best practices in sustainable business and to recognize exceptional efforts and innovations within our offices around the world, MCI developed the Leadership in CSR Award. Each year, MCI offices vie for the MCI Leadership in CSR trophy (made by hand of recycled glass, of course) presented each [...]

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Giving Back: MCI’s Power of Action 2011, Montreux

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

Here at MCI, we’ve been actively engaged in creating a community service action for our annual business meeting which this year will bring over 600 MCI staff and business partners to beautiful Montreux, Switzerland. Our approach, now a standard practice called The Power of Action, was first explained here. How to integrate a social responsibility [...]

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Sustainable Events: Holiday Season Medley

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

What better way to close out a busy 2011 than with rousing, inspiring, infectiously enthusiastic, innovative sustainable event initiatives? We been busy elves of sustainability these last several months and wish to share a few of the events about which we are excited here. As always, we’d very much enjoy hearing about actions and ideas [...]

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On soap and other waste: are we doing it wrong?

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

In nature, and in a sustainable society, waste from one process is food for another (this and lots of other great stuff from William McDonough). Clean the World, and their effort to capture wasted soaps from hotels across the United States, might well be a brilliant example of this principle in action.  Yet the recent [...]

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Sustainable Event Reporting: Like eating your vegetables?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

Parents differ on their approach to getting kids to eat vegetables, often falling into 2 camps: ‘eat it or else’ and ‘only take what you want”.  Which method produces the healthier eater?   There’s a parallel, here, to recent thinking on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting.  In her just published article, Elaine Cohen recaps the recent [...]

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Asian Meetings Industry Predictions 2011

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Guy Bigwood

I was asked to provide my predictions for the Meetings Industry in 2011 for a nice article for CEI Asia. The document has some really interesting perspectives and makes for good reading. CEI Asia Jan 11 Predictions.pdf Here are my comments: It has been a solid year for sustainability in the meetings industry and I [...]

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Sustainable Business: Til death do us part

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

In preparing for this event, a number of parallels have surfaced between matrimonial vows and, well, a solid sustainable business plan (or plan for sustainable events). Maybe such parallels are evident only for those whose wedding anniversary happens the same week as the event in question, but we persist with the analogy. In the points [...]

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What does Social Responsibility mean to you?

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

As ‘green’ initiatives are becoming more and more established internationally, social responsibility is now the most important—and most difficult—issue leaders must address if the industry is to remain viable over the long term. The meetings industry, some feel, is not yet ready to address social responsibility. We’re asking too much for businesses, many of whom [...]

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BP: Beyond Practical. The point(s) we’ve missed about sustainability

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

Many have observed that the BP oil spill is a reminder that corporate responsibility to community and the environment requires more than a clever re-brand. There’s something missing from the conversation, however. These observations of BP (and the many companies who are very glad they are not BP), don’t seem to make the link between [...]

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