Thursday, May 17, 2012
VERGE SF @ Greenbuild teams up for partnership.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
In all, the International Consumer Electronics Show recycled 75 percent of all materials—including 50,000 pounds of show publications.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Solar panels, farm-to-table service and green products among offerings.
Monday, December 19, 2011
David L. Lawrence Convention Center drew $12.5 million in revenue from green-seeking events in 2006-2010.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The Greenbuild International Conference and Expo achieved a 95 percent waste diversion rate.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Show organizers that book at the Sands Expo and Convention Center now have a number of ways to reduce environmental impacts.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Partnership with Deutsche Bahn offers special rail tickets to event-goers.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The venue becomes only the third in U.S. to receive the designation.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The facility becomes one of the three largest convention centers in the U.S. to earn the designation.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
During first quarter 2010, the GWCC diverted 96 tons of waste from landfills.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Program leverages environmental demands, taps into rebounding business travel market.
Monday, May 3, 2010
1. ELEPHANT-POO NOTEBOOK
Yes, it’s made from elephant poop. No, it doesn’t smell like elephant poop.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Many show organizers, and facilities, still don’t know they can donate surplus food from their events to food banks — with no liability. The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which was signed into law by President Clinton in October of 1996, protects food donors from civil and criminal liability at national and state levels.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Looking for ways to reduce the environmental impact of the dining practices at your next event? Try working with your facility’s caterer to incorporate some of these eco-friendly tips from the Environment Defense Fund (EDF).
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Want to set a green example for your exhibitors? Take a cue from exhibitor Joey Roth, who constructed his summer 2009 New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF) booth exclusively from materials discarded during the Fair’s two-day set-up phase.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Even if you do everything in your power to green your event, exhibitors with environmentally unsound practices can cancel out your efforts. Why not encourage exhibiting companies to adopt your standards of environmental accountability?
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Show organizers who serve prime rib, filet mignon or even cheeseburgers at the Anaheim Convention Center can rest assured that their groups are eating sustainable, local beef, thanks to the center’s recent purchase of its own herd of 75 cattle.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
For the Natural Products Expo (NPE), environmentalism would seem to be a natural fit.
And it is. But when New Hope Natural Media (www.newhope.com), a division of Penton
Media, producers of the Natural Products Expo East and West, committed to a complete greening of its trade show portfolio in 2000, the initial outlook was less than rosy. Surprisingly, cost wasn’t the biggest obstacle. Access was. Most venues didn’t recycle, organic food was nowhere on the menus and contractors didn’t offer options in environmentally friendly materials whether or not you wanted to pay more for them.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
When the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG) seeks out a destination for its annual conference, organizers look for sites that will prepare local foods for the organization’s 1,200-attendee banquet. And those sites aren’t always easy to find, says Jean Mills, SSAWG’s Conference Coordinator. When Mills learned that the Chattanooga Convention Center (CCC) was serving local, sustainable food to its guests, it seemed like a perfect fit.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The average trade show attendee produces 61 pounds of solid waste at a three-day conference compared to 13.5 pounds of waste generated during a three-day period at home according to a 2008 white paper authored by green meeting consultants at MeetGreen. But it doesn’t have to be that way. At the International Sign Expo (ISE) in April attendees produced less waste and avoided lugging heavy tote bags of trade show paraphernalia by using the Virtual Totebag a new product from BDMetrics that allows attendees to take it all home — digitally.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Marshall Lipson was tired of attending so-called paperless conferences that required attendees to wait in lines to print their agendas or send home CDs of PDFs to be printed later. So the Managing Director of Professional Development at the Society of Financial Service Professionals (SFSP) set out to develop a truly paperless conference.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
When attendees sit down to dine at your meeting’s banquet or exhibit hall lunch, take the opportunity to set a fashionable table that reflects your environmental values.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
When the organizers of the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo set out to produce an entirely sustainable show, they knew shipping would be a big piece of the puzzle. To implement a realistic shipping solution that would also reduce their carbon footprint, the show enlisted freight carrier EA Logistics and its Delivered GrEAn freight program.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Legendary artist Peter Max created a limited edition poster to promote SustainCommWorld’s 2008 events, The Green Media Show and The Business of Green Media — but the poster didn’t just encourage sustainable business communications; it was the epitome of sustainability.
In this exclusive EXPO survey, show organizers reveal how sustainability factors into their event production.
