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Category: Nancy J.Zavada
President, MeetGreen

Sustainable Meetings: Pretentious Musings of Meet Green Martyr

APEX/ASTM Exhibits Standard...Let's Go!

The new APEX/ASTM Standards are finally published and ready to use. Now that I have had a chance to review the Exhibits Standard, here is my initial reaction and implementation advice...

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Name Badges Change Lives

Wondering how to get your participants to recycle their name badges? Look no further...

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Best Speaker Gift EVER

Looking for a way to thank speakers AND give back to the local community?  Here's an idea you can use.

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12 Green Practices You Should Ask For

The MeetGreen Conference Management Team recently voted on their favorite green practices to ask for when planning a conference or event. I am sure they won't mind if I share, so here are their top 12 "asks:"

    • Ask for recycling at the facility
    • Ask for a towel and linen reuse program
    • Ask for no bottled water to be served
    • Ask for bulk condiments and beverages
    • Ask for excess food to be donated
    • Ask for banquet water glasses not to be pre-filled
    • Ask for use of china and linens; no disposables
    • Ask if the venue has electronic signage
    • Ask about sustainable, local food
    • Ask for signs to be made of a sustainable material
    • Ask for recycled content paper for printing or ask for no printing at all
    • Ask client to communicate sustainability efforts and options to attendees.
What green practices does your event team ask for each time?

5 Step Event Recycling

Not sure how to implement recycling at your events?  Here's how...

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Let's Simplify Sustainable Meetings

Let's start here and now to simplify sustainable meetings.

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How to impress a green planner

Hey hoteliers! Here's how to woo a planner of sustainable meetings.

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Latest Comments
  1. Re: Let's Simplify Sustainable Meetings

    Great tips, but really? Choose a venue with a recycling program. Are you going to add that to the c

    --Fred

  2. Re: Ethical Dilemmas Abound: Input Sought

    Joan: your second situation is intriguing to me on many levels. Earning "designations" are no guaran

    --Kellee O'Reilly

  3. Re: Ethical Dilemmas Abound: Input Sought

    Ah, Mitchell, thank you and yes, it is, isn't it - uniquely American. I think too many employers (

    --Joan Eisenstodt

  4. Re: Ethical Dilemmas Abound: Input Sought

    Joan, I have to point out how uniquely American the first of your two dilemmas is. In no other indus

    --Mitchell Beer

  5. Re: Ethical negotiations - is it an oxymoron?

    Broadening the conversation .. this is the latest in the GSA probe. I am trying to figure out where

    --Eisenstodt,Joan

  6. Re: More laws - more considerations for meetings

    what is the big deal about the state law if it matches federal law? or is not as inclusive as federa

    --Tired

  7. Re: Meetings, laws, and people - oh my!

    I don't know if this was racially or ethnically motivated. I do know it could happen to a participan

    --Joan Eisenstodt

  8. Re: More laws - more considerations for meetings

    About "walking while Black" and the "Stand Your Ground Laws": if we do not take this kind of informa

    --Joan Eisenstodt

  9. Re: Best Speaker Gift EVER

    Thanks for this, Nancy - this is my very favorite kind of gift - it gives back. An MPI chapter honor

    --Joan Eisenstodt

  10. Re: Selecting sites & vendors by asking better questions

    Read this and thought it was worth adding about asking better questions in the sales arena. http://b

    --Eisenstodt,Joan

 
 
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