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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The Power of Action: Giving thanks, sharing findings

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Michael Luehrs

Thank you! The Power of Action community service event  mentioned in our earlier post exceeded every possible goal we imagined.  The enthusiastic engagement and generosity of our team, partners and participants brought the following exciting results: 171 people, including 125 kids, participated in a 4 hour long session to create 19 different figures of (mostly) [...]

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The Power of Action

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

In our offices, November means the fast approach of the much anticipated MCI International Business Meeting.  Part education summit, part celebration, the IBM has become the turntable to which the MCI culture dances.  Moving each year to a different exciting destination, the IBM represents the most positive aspects of the company culture in a vibrant [...]

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Community Outreach “do’s & don’ts”: tough love for big hearts

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

A recently released meetings industry white paper shows that integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into events will grow in 2011.  This coincides with the recent release of  ISO 26000, a comprehensive framework on which to build a socially responsible management system which might influence such a meeting.  All very exciting. But for the meeting planner with [...]

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Social responsibility as a tool against ignorance

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Michael Luehrs

Dispatch from the front line of the meetings industry: Potential Client: “We have a great idea and need your help with making it happen” Destination Management professional: “Great! Tell me more.” Still Potential Client: “We’ll transport a group of 50 people from the venue to the hotel via local metro.  Here’s the good part..  we’d [...]

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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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