Did you know if you pack just one less pair of shoes you can eliminate 5 lbs. of CO2 when traveling by air?

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If you opt for an electronic program instead of a paper one you can save 52 gallons of water?

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If you participate in a hotel’s linen-reuse program you can save 1.3 gallons of water?  That might not sound like much, but what if you multiply those 1.3 gallons by all 250 participants attending your meeting.  The water savings would be 325 gallons of water–a substantial amount in today’s drought-stricken climate.

This handy calculator was developed to help meeting managers tell the story of how our daily decisions, and those of our attendees, can affect the environment.  If you are interested in this storytelling aid and over 40 other meeting planning tools in addition to APEX/ASTM Sustainable Event Standards checklists, check out the MeetGreen Resource Kit today.

We’ve “done the math” for you!