Using green transport for events is a bit like eating your vegetables. You know you should, but taking your own car and having a cookie at the break just sounds SO much better! Green transportation ideas like taking transit, ridesharing and walking routes do not work for all events and audiences. However, when planned well […]
10 Venues Embracing Sustainability
Event sustainability is easiest where you can find a venue that is already responsibility-minded. So what to look for? In years past we might be satisfied with a basic paragraph in the event venue specs that confirms “recycling happens”. But today our expectations are evolving, urged on by those who are setting a new example […]
9 Great Green Menu Themes
Starved for green menu ideas this Spring? The period between Earth Day (April 22) and Environment Day (June 5) is a great time of year to serve up planet-conscious food experiences. Here are nine creative ideas to celebrate the planet in tasty style. Food Saver Supper Awkward asparagus, bulbous beets, and crooked carrots: challenge your […]
Event Waste Exposé: The Dirty Dozen
The typical event attendee produces 1.89 Kg of waste per day, 85% of which can be landfill, depending on where and what type of event it is. One of the best ways to reduce waste is to audit your waste stream, which can create many benefits. But what if you don’t have time for the […]
8 Steps to Improve Your Event With a Waste Audit
From saving money to reducing risk and helping the planet, there are many benefits to conducting an event waste audit. But how do you go about conducting your own? The following post outlines eight basic steps to conducting an event waste audit. 1. Identify the Goal Waste audits can do many things, including identifying redundant, […]
Power up your Event with Green Energy Ideas
From festival light shows to conference attendee air travel, events have a huge energy appetite. We feel it on the bottom line, in terms of costs for power drops, airline fuel surcharges and generators. The planet also feels the impact from resource exploration, development and emissions. Green power solutions for events have become an innovative […]
7 Winning Ways of the Event Food Waste Warrior
Virtually every green event checklist includes a call to curb food waste. Here on Event Manager Blog we’ve shared a few ideas to consider. But how does a meeting planner practically implement a food waste reduction program? After all it’s not all about checklists. What process steps do you follow? I recently shadowed event planner […]
Four Questions for a Winning Event CSR Project
Puppy cuddling and bike building are very nice, but do they create a better event? And if they did, how would you know? Event professionals embed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects into events for altruistic reasons: to give back without the expectation to get in return. However CSR projects that consider only the beneficiary or […]
Zero-Waste Event Makeovers Anyone Can Do
When it comes to eliminating waste at your event, a picture is worth a thousand words. Following are two examples of seriously simple, low- to no-cost ways to reduce event waste that anyone can accomplish. The Break Service Note the following potential for landfill waste: single-serving sugar, non-recyclable plastic creamers and stir sticks, polystyrene coffee […]
Fun Facts and Simple Steps to Inspire Your Sustainable Event
Do your green event efforts seem like a chore? Forget that! Use these fun facts to help you shake the guilty motivation for going green and embrace your inner event sustainability solutionary to save money, help people and protect the planet. Reuse Banners and Graphics If every meeting held in the USA reused one banner, […]