Posted on July 29, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
This recent article about food waste in the United States, and the energy it represents, offers reminder that this is an area worthy of focus for event professionals and their suppliers. Indeed, a recent session at the MPI WEC conference offered practical actions to reduce carbon emissions related to events. Reducing food waste is by [...]
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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 21, 2010 by Guy Bigwood
I am in New York where we are organising the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit . As a prelude I prepared a case study of how the Danish Government implemented a more sustainable COP15 climate conference.
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Posted on April 22, 2010 by Guy Bigwood
Today we launched the CSMP and COP15 report. Here is the webinar presentation
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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 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 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 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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Posted on January 19, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
Oddly, as technological innovations have advanced, and use of handheld communication devices expanded, so has the production of paper and consumption of trees. In 1961, world production of paper and paperboard stood at 77 million tons. In 2005, 354 million tons (more here). Meanwhile, recycling of paper and paperboard in industrialized nations is consistently less [...]
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