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 | "GYGO" MeetGreen's Got Game
Posted March 2012
It's More Than A Game, It's A Way Of Life.
At
Event Camp Vancouver Footprint Management Systems Inc., MeetGreen and
QuickMobile set out to prove that event attendees could learn, engage
and be influenced to reduce footprint through simple, fun actions. The
result? An interactive mobile game, Get Your Green On, a “solutionary”
event experience integrating social media, technology and corporate
social responsibility.
Click here for much more information
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Amy Meets with Inspiration Cafe
at PSAV
Posted March 2012
MeetGreen principal, Amy Spatrisano, chats with the folks at the PSAV
Inspiration
Caf during PCMA about what companies and meeting planners can do to
incorporate a green strategy into their events, no matter what the
size. Many people seem to think they must either commit 100% to making
sustainable choices, or make none at all, but Amy explains that this
just isn't the case. Sustainability is a journey, and simply starting
with small steps, like making just a few green choices for your
meetings and events is a great place to start. Amy gives some great
advice about where to start in this informative interview.
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It's Easy To Be Green, When You
Have The Right Tools
Posted March 2012
MPI
recently interviewed Amy Spatrisano, for their recent article: "It's
Easy To Be Green, When You Have The Right Tools." Find out what these
tools are (hint:
read our books yet?) and why the meeting industry continues
to turn to MeetGreen for innovation around sustainable meetings.
"Expand
the size of your gathering to a few hundred or thousand people, and
it’s easy to see why the meeting and event industry has a reputation of
waste…Things are changing, however, and meeting professionals shouldn’t
ignore sustainability practices, says Amy Spatrisano, principal of
MeetGreen and co-founder of the Green Meeting Industry Council..."
Read
the whole article here.
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The Latest News on
the APEX Green Meeting Standards:
Posted February 2012
It's official, the APEX/ASTM Green Event Standards are published!
At last, the Standards are here. For your convenience we have compiled
some of our previous articles and webinars on the subject to get you up
to speed on what these standards are about, the impact on the industry
and why they will be important to you.
Articles:
•Green Meetings Standards Set to Publish
•New Green Standards Help Make Sustainability
Sustainable
•Mitchell Beer and Amy Spatrisano on Setting
Sustainability Standards
Webinar:
•Green Standards and Certifications presented
by Nancy Zavada, MeetGreen
Blogs:
•Insider's Perspective on APEX, GRI and ISO
20121
•Policy Template Helps You Meet Sustainable
Event Standards
•APEX Standards...Stop Waiting and Start
Preparing!
If
you or your team need help understanding, processing or implementing
them, MeetGreen stands ready to help. We are just a phone
call/email away.
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BLOG
POST: Insider's Perspective on APEX, GRI and ISO 20121
Posted February 2012
The Global Reporting Initiative Launches the Event Organizers Sector
Supplement…say what?
Have you heard the one about,
"how many standards does it take for the meeting/event industry to have
one they might actually use?" Apparently, the answer is
three. (See full blog post)
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PRESS
RELEASE: MeetGreen helps develop the newly launched Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Posted February 2012
Event organizers can
now report on sustainability issues
like impacts on communities, natural environments, and local and global
economies,
thanks to new guidance published January
24, 2012 by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
MeetGreen
helped developed the guidance as part of a multi-stakeholder Working
Group.
(See full press release)
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Q&A:
Green Event Tips from Oracle's Sustainability Chief
Posted February 2012
In BIZBASH
Reusing signage from one year to the next, requesting locally
sourced food and donating the leftovers, and encouraging attendees to
walk or use pedi-cabs—those are a few of the actions Oracle
has
implemented at OpenWorld and JavaOne, two annual events the company
hosts simultaneously in San Francisco for more than 46,000 attendees.
Oracle is now in its fifth year of implementing and tracking
sustainability practices at these events and recently released a
comprehensive report, prepared by MeetGreen, on its strategies and
results. The report is a blueprint of green initiatives and supports
the company’s goal of helping others understand how to
incorporate
sustainability into events. (See full article)
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Meeting Pros to Follow on Twitter
Posted December 2011
In Conventions South
Our own Britta Ehnebuske gets a magazine shout-out for her MeetGreen
Tweets. We are so proud! (See full article here, page 20)
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Gamification
for Conferences and Meetings
Posted January 25, 2012
On Associcom
Great video on how conferences and meetings are using "Gamification" in
their events. They talk about the successes of Event Camp
that
Shawna McKinley of MeetGreen was a big part of. (See
Full Video click on the "Gamification for conferences and meetings" on
that page )
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Sustainability:
Basic Green Techniques
Posted January 30, 2012
By Nancy Zavada in Convention Forum Magazine (Page 24)
Is My Meeting
Green?
The meeting industry may finally answer this question when the Accepted
Practices Exchange (APEX) launches its standards for best practices for
green events.Although trying to pin down the exact launch date reminds
me of one of my favorite sayings: "Everything in the universe
is
subject to change...and everything is on schedule." (See
Full Story )
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