Embedding Sustainability into Copenhagen Meetings Industry

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Guy Bigwood

Recorded at EIBTM, Michael Luehrs interviews Steen Jakobsen, Director of Conventions at Wonderful Copenhagen. Steen talks about how Copenhagen has embraced sustainability and embedded it into the meetings product and culture of the MICE industry.  Steen shares the approach – called the Copenhagen Sustainable Meetings Protocol (designed by us), and how leadership, stakeholder engagement and [...]

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Sustainable Events: On strength & Connectedness

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

Organisations=Organisms Within any organisation, individual department-based process are interrelated and interdependent. Random example: The person working reception at a hotel, if they are to be productive and enthusiastic, relies on the successful observation of effective processes in the restaurant.  Poor systems will result in poor service and, eventually, problems for anybody involved in guest service. [...]

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The Natural Step for the Meetings Industry’s Sustainability Transformation

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Guy Bigwood

Michael and I often use the the Natural Step as a systematic approach to Sustainability. In this post my friend and GMIC board member Jan Peter Bergkvist wrote a nice article  which I think is worth sharing. It builds on our earlier article. Many companies, event organizations and associations are currently concerned primarily with the global [...]

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Green and Sustainable events: can 2011 be a ‘corner turner’?

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

The many ’2010, a year in review’ lists (random example here) prompt consideration of what meeting industry trends might indicate, if anything, for 2011.  2010 saw many high water marks in the pursuit of greater sustainable event performance which, in list form, might look like this: 10.  The app.  Rapid uptake of smart phones and [...]

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Do you have principles for sustainability?

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Guy Bigwood

There are hundreds of definitions of sustainability, and many people agree and disagree on what should be included. At the GMIC we follow the “Natural Step” Principles that define 4 conditions for developing sustainability.  These were develop by an international network of scientists who have unanimously and publically concluded that human society is damaging nature and [...]

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Green Meeting Seminar Estoril – Presentations

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Guy Bigwood

Yesterday I was privileged to be in Estoril, Portugal and to be organising a seminar program about sustainable events. The days previous to the event I was participating in a workshop to co-develop the GRI Reporting guidelines for the event sector. My fellow participants are some of the best brains in event sustainability from around [...]

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Leadership: Grab the bull by the horns

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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Are “Green Meetings” hurting sustainable fisheries?

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

‘We have met the enemy and he is us‘   Pogo Hotels, conference centers, caterers and wholesale vendors across the globe routinely offer non-sustainable fish choices in response to real or perceived client demand.  Should they? Meeting planner and supplier polls show expanding interest in  ‘green meetings’. Meanwhile, perhaps in the name of tradition and/or good [...]

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A sustainable network makes us stronger: GMIC

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

The Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC) has been the most effective force for change in the meetings industry movement to find and integrate more responsible practices.  A wellspring of ideas, resources and friendships for the rapidly expanding network of committed business professionals who have discovered it, the GMIC is like no other meetings industry association.  [...]

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Social Responsibility FAIL: can we do better?

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

Two international retailers, H&M and Wal-Mart, just got a pie in the face of their (stated?) strong Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Today’s news from the New York Times revealed that bags and bags and bags of unsold, post-holiday clothing stock was destroyed before being discarded, ostensibly to prevent it from being re-sold.  A saavy business [...]

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