Green Initiatives
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.
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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:
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Industry Association Initiatives |
| Green Products | Industry Links |
| Government Resources |
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Best Practices:
For Event Planners: It Is Easy Being Green!
Best Practices: Kallman Worldwide's Green Approach at the Paris Air Show
Freeman’s Exhibit Transportation Service Certified by EPA
Freeman's Ongoing Green Effrots
American Airlines Green Initiatives
Green Products
Valley's Manufacturing Processes and Services
Government Resources:
F.T.C. Kicks Off Green Marketing Hearings 10 January 2008
BBC - New Green Standard for Big Events
Guide to Planning and Conducting Environmentally Aware Meetings and Events Webpage
National Recycling Coalition Green Meetings Policy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Meetings
Industry Articles:
Green Trade Shows are Starting to Feel Recycled
Trend Watching's March 2009 Eco-Bounty
Marriott Chief Warns About Global Warming
Tons of Steel, Gravel Recycled from Three-Story Exhibit
GreenBuzz: Taking Care of Business
Lofty Claims Made by Airlines, Resorts, Others Often Just Empty Promises
Exhibitor Magazine Research on “An Inconvenient Booth"
Exhibitor Magazine White Paper "An Inconvenient Booth"
Green Exhibiting from Exhibit Concepts
It's Not Easy Being Green - Or Is It
Freeman Rolls Out "Green Carpet"
Freeman Recycles 25 Million Sq. Ft. of Carpet
ARAMARK Convention Centers & Cultural Attractions Expands Environmental Stewardship Efforts
October 2007 Issue of Gourmet 365
Meetings & Conventions – August 2006 issue – “Sustainable Savings”
Meetings Industry Megasite – “It’s Not Easy Being Green”
Smart Meetings February 2005 issue – “Eco Meetings”
Industry Association Initiatives:
Travel Industry Association's Sustainability Site
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
Convention Industry Council – Green Meetings Report
The Meeting Professional March 2006 issue – “Going Green” cover story
Convene April 2006 issue - “Zero Waste: Next Step Beyond Recycling”
Convene December 2006 issue – “Majora Carter – Not Your Ordinary Environmental Leader”
Convene December 2006 issue – “David Suzuki – We Have To Be The Change We Want”
Convene December 2006 issue – “Meetings That Don’t Make an Impact (On the Environment, That Is)
Convene December 2006 Issue – “Too Heavy a Footprint”
Industry Links:
Red, White and "Green": The Cost of Carbon in the Global Wine Trade
Large List of Websites Dedicated to Going Green
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