May 2014
Data is a Beautiful Thing…so is Water
Data is a beautiful thing. It helps you tell a story, understand the significance and ultimately, demonstrate you are doing the right thing. The right thing, like conserving water. In today's "radical transparency" world of [...]
100% Fresh, Local, Organic Meals at a Hotel? You Bet!
The challenge...serve 100% local or organic food at the Living Future unConference 2014. In our experience, this has never been done before for a group of over 1,000 people for three days. Bryan Siegel, Executive [...]
Is Our Meeting Sustainable?
If you are attending the Living Future unConference 2014, relax we've got you covered. Even before you made plans to attend, The Living Future Institute conference organizers and MeetGreen team were on the job, planning [...]
April 2014
No, Not the C Word!
Yes, that's right, "Collaboration." The word, collaboration, is widely used when talking about sustainable meetings. Sustainable event planners go on and on about how they must collaborate with the venues, chefs, waste haulers, general service [...]
SCRAPy Solution to Event Waste
Imagine, someone begging for donations of used signage, conference bags and lanyards? Me neither, until I took a field trip to SCRAP during the GMIC Sustainable Meetings Conference. SCRAP takes an amazing amount of used [...]
Stop Hunger. Looking Silly Optional!
On Day Two of the GMIC Sustainable Meetings Conference, participants took part in a project to help Stop Hunger Now. This is one of the most well organized volunteer projects I have ever been involved [...]