Posted on April 21, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
COP15 was a transformative event for those closest to it, the organizers and the host city, Copenhagen. The largest political event to ever happen in Denmark, COP15 brought unique challenges and opportunities. The story of how they worked together to deliver the first United Nations event to ever achieve BS8901 sustainable event management criteria is [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2010 by Guy Bigwood
Grabing the bull by the horns This week I have had the pleasure of working in Andalusia in the South of Spain. I had not been to Sevilla for some years and I was struck by how this beautiful city had invested in pedestrianizing the center, installing a new hi-tech tramway and a public biking [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
Meeting planners, do you know what happens to the waste from your event? Many communities incinerate waste in an effort to reduce costs (financial, aesthetic, perhaps environmental?) associated with landfills. The act of incineration often provides a secondary benefit of generating energy. In Copenhagen, Denmark, for example, 5% of the energy source mix comes from [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
A new Yale study examines the environmental performance of 163 nations with some revealing results. The Environmental Performance Index 2010 Top 5 positions are not a surprise but Costa Rica at #3? Well done! Congratulations to Iceland, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Sweden and Norway whose collective efforts to observe environmental stewardship in a systemic, long term [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
In continuation to last post, in Mexico i gave a second keynote at the National Tourism Congress about Creating and marketing sustainable destinations. In the attached presentation I talk about Risk and opportunities presented to Smart destinations around the “sustainability revolutions” Provide some examples of destinations who are leading the market Provide a framework that [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
The following is an article Michael and I wrote for the Middle East Edition of CIM. It was written to create debate and thought over the growth and environmental issues of the UAE development in the last few years. The Middle East development strategy has performed badly in terms of sustainability. Yet there is hope [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2009 by Michael Luehrs
In spite of a the litany of columns, reports and studies on the topic of Greenwashing, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwash), it seems that confusion ensues, resulting in more unsubstantiated claims which only serve to make the market more jaded and fussy with those that make them. I think the causes can often be traced to over-enthusiastic marketing teams [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
With the growing trend of sustainability, many destinations are now preparing themselves as “green meeting destinations”. In 2008, we increasingly started to work with DMOs and CVBs who wanted to go green. Not surprisingly cities are seeing that green has financial, branding and motivational benefits. The following presentation highlights the high level findings of some [...]
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