Exhibitions and events, by their very nature, create waste. Properly managed, exhibitions and events can recycle excess materials and supplies in useful and meaningful ways and they can do so using methods that result in minimized impacts to our environmental. IAEE aims to educate and influence its member organizations in achieving economic and strategic goals while minimizing adverse environmental impacts of the events they produce.
The IAEE Committee on Environmental Responsibility identifies resources and develop best practices that address how to minimize the environmental impact of events globally. These documents will serve as references with which to develop comprehensive resources that will assist exhibition, event organizers and suppliers to the industry in creating more environmental-friendly, “Green” events.
Additionally, organizations can adjust their administrative practices in very simple ways to reduce the environmental impact of their office operations on the environment. The committee will identify, as its first goal, simple steps which organizations can undertake to reduce their impact on the environment.
Key Resources: Green Products
The following web resources touch on the subject of “green” or environmentally conscious meetings:
06.18.2009 For Event Planners: It Is Easy Being Green!
Best Practices: Kallman Worldwide's Green Approach at the Paris Air Show
Trend Watching's March 2009 Eco-Bounty
Marriott Chief Warns About Global Warming
Freeman’s Exhibit Transportation Service Certified by EPA Travel Industry Association's Sustainability Site
2008 National Hardware Show (R) and Freeman Team Up to Recycle/Divert 88% of Post-Show Materials from Landfills
Freeman's Ongoing Green Effrots
Eco-friendly expo Green West Opens
Is Your Meeting Green Enough?
Tons of Steel, Gravel Recycled from Three-Story Exhibit
Sustainable Business.com
GreenBuzz: Taking Care of Business
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Meeting Green
American Airlines Green Initiatives
Lofty Claims Made by Airlines, Resorts, Others Often Just Empty Promises San Francisco Chronicle Article: Making Conventions Environmentally Friendly F.T.C. Kicks Off Green Marketing Hearings 10 January 2008
Exhibitor Magazine Research on “An Inconvenient Booth" Exhibitor Magazine White Paper "An Inconvenient Booth"
Information on Green Exhibiting from Exhibit Concepts
It's Not Easy Being Green - Or Is It - an article
Ecospun - Sell Sheet
Ecospun - Presentation
Freeman Rolls Out "Green Carpet" Freeman Recycles 25 Million Sq. Ft. of Carpet
ARAMARK Convention Centers & Cultural Attractions Expands Environmental Stewardship Efforts
Sample Language for Environmental Clauses in Contracts (as listed on PCMA's Capital Chapter site): Hotel Environmental Clause Environmentally Responsible Meeting Clause Meet Green Minimum Guidelines Meet Green Contract Language
Sustainable Business Institute Information (as listed on PCMA's Capital Chapter site): SBI Seal of Sustainabilty Power Point SBI Seal of Sustainabilty Intro SBI Seal of Sustainability Overview SBI Q&A Green Meetingshttp://www.greenmeetings.info/
BBC - New Green Standard for Big Events
Convention Industry Council – Green Meetings Report http://www.conventionindustry.org/projects/green_meetings_report.pdf
Green Meetings Industrial Council Web site http://www.greenmeetings.info/
Guide to Planning and Conducting Environmentally Aware Meetings and Events Webpage http://www.peninsula.wednet.edu/conservation/Recycling/green_meetings.htm
October 2007 Issue of Gourmet 365 http://www.thegourmetshow.com/news/oct/
MPI’s The Meeting Professional March 2006 issue – “Going Green” cover story http://www.mpiweb.org/CMS/mpiweb/mpicontent.aspx?id=4923
Meetings & Conventions – August 2006 issue – “Sustainable Savings” http://www.meetings-conventions.com/IndividualFeature.aspx?page=3&pageid=57699
Meetings Industry Megasite – “It’s Not Easy Being Green” http://www.mimegasite.com/mimegasite/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002463796
MeetingsNet - Green Meetings webpage http://meetingsnet.com/checklistshowto/green_meetings/
National Recycling Coalition Green Meetings Policy http://www.resourcesaver.org/file/toolmanager/CustomO16C45F42045.pdf
Oceans Blue Foundation website http://www.bluegreenmeetings.org/
PCMA’s Convene April 2006 issue - “Zero Waste: Next Step Beyond Recycling” http://www.pcma.org/resources/convene/archives/displayArticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=5286
PCMA’s Convene December 2006 issue – “Majora Carter – Not Your Ordinary Environmental Leader” http://archive.pcma.org/conv/dec06/Convene_Dec%2006_078-083%20Leading%20by%20example%20Carter%20Assessing%20success.pdf
PCMA’s Convene December 2006 issue – “David Suzuki – We Have To Be The Change We Want” http://archive.pcma.org/conv/dec06/Convene_Dec%2006_070-075%20Leading%20by%20Example%20Suzuki.pdf
PCMA’s Convene December 2006 issue – “Meetings That Don’t Make an Impact (On the Environment, That Is) http://archive.pcma.org/conv/dec06/Convene_Dec%2006_036-066%20Green%20Meetings.pdf
PCMA’s Convene December 2006 Issue – “Too Heavy a Footprint” http://archive.pcma.org/conv/dec06/Convene_Dec%2006_006%20Behind%20the%20scenes.pdf
Smart Meetings February 2005 issue – “Eco Meetings”http://www.smartmtgs.com/Publications/Mag/Archives/Feb2005/Green_Feb05.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Meetings webpage http://www.epa.gov/oppt/greenmeetings/index.htm
Green Products
CDshowGuides
RCS Green Holder-Less Badge