Meeting planners and suppliers can finally dig into the industry’s long-awaited sustainable meeting standards. While the new APEX green standards won’t officially launch until September or later, the first training program on how to use them will...
As images of spreading oil plumes, devastated Gulf Coast communities, and dead seabirds fill our TV screens, it’s easy to warp back and forth between a sense of futility and an urge to assign responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe...
In December 2009, during the United Nations’ 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15), Siemens AG and The Economist Intelligence Unit (a division of The Economist magazine), released the European Green City Index, a rating of the 30 major cities in...
My head is still spinning with ideas, enthusiasm, and wall-to-wall content from last week’s 2010 Sustainable Meetings Conference in Denver, hosted by the Green Meeting Industry Council...
Last week, as I was writing an update on how the hospitality industry has pulled together to help the earthquake victims in Haiti — offering aircraft and cruise ships for the relief efforts, organizing donations and supply drives — it hit me what...