Imagine for a moment a sustainable travel option in your convention's destination city to link participants from the airport to their hotels.Imagine this travel option includes a revenue sharing structure for your organization.Imagine your staff rides free.Imagine marketing support is included.Imagine each rider will keep 22 lbs. of emission out of the local air.Seems like [...]
Sixty-five percent of corporate travel executives are implementing sustainable travel guidelines for their companies, according to a recent study conducted by MindClick SGM. That's great news! The executives polled are responsible for over $10 million in annual travel budgets. The curious part of the study is only 2% of those surveyed would include LEED [...]
Looking for the business case benefits for a standardized and measurable sustainability program for your hotel? Here are five top benefits with links to recent articles and web sites which may help you make the case: Cost savings. A 10 percent reduction in energy consumption alone would have the same financial effect as increasing the [...]
At least in the sustainability world. In his article, Five Stages on the Sustainability Journey, Vijay Kanal describes how companies progress through these stages to adopt sustainability: Grassroots - the first stage starting with a few employees taking the initiative. Functional - divisions or units such as operations get involved. Strategic - as more functional [...]
Here are a few ideas for New Year's Resolutions that don't require a trip to the gym or giving up chocolate. Repeat after me...I resolve to: Set up a Green Team for my organization’s meetings and events. That's right--I don’t have to do it all alone. Have recycling stations at every meeting and measure the [...]
