Fashionably sustainable

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Guy Bigwood

As recently shared on our Danish Sustainable Events blog, this week Copenhagen is hosting Europe’s second largest Fashion Show. Sustainability has become a very critical element of fashion design and manufacturing with mainstream and haute-couture  designers  such as Vivienne Westwood  champion better more ethical and eco practices. Next June,  Copenhagen will host  the Copenhagen Fashion [...]

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Launch of GRI event organizers reporting guidelines

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Guy Bigwood

Launch of new event reporting guidelines from GRI In continuation on our series of posts about reporting, we have a great announcement to make: From today event organizers around the world now have a new tool that can help them to report on economic, environmental and social sustainability issues. The new guidelines have been developed [...]

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Sweat, Tears and Bloody Knuckles: How Sustainability Reporting is making MCI a better company

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Guy Bigwood

“Sweat, Tears and Bloody Knuckles: How our Sustainability Report is making us a better company” The idea was simple enough.  Rather than deliver the minimum effort to be compliant with the UN Global Compact Communications on Progress requirement, we’d take additional steps to conduct measurements of the known sustainability impacts of our business.  We would, [...]

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The awakening giant?

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Guy Bigwood

On a scale to most , the number and size of  healthcare meetings and events dwarfs other sectors. While meeting planners and marketers in the  IT and energy sector have undertaken pioneering steps at greening their events, the heathcare sector in general has been left way behind. It seems ironic that a sector so focused [...]

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Deloitte 2015 Sustainability Report

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Guy Bigwood

In the recent whitepaper Hospitality 2015, Deloitte paint an interesting picture of how rising populations, resource shortage, pricing increases and consumer demand will effect the hospitality industry. And how sustainability needs to be embedded rather than added on. The sustainability section makes for some good reading: You can read it here: deloite_2015_sustainability.pdf

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CSMP COP15 Webinar

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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Green Hospitality and Real Estate Whitepaper

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Guy Bigwood

Ernst and Young have just released a fairly good report called Hospitality going green. It reports on how the ‘green’ movement has affected the hospitality industry, and what the lodging sector has done to incorporate sustainable elements into their business models Its well written and gives a good introduction for someone who wants a wide [...]

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