Greenwashing
Four Tough Challenges that Make Sustainability Easier
Saturday, July 16th, 2011Earlier this month, a colleague shook up my thinking about green meetings with an idea that could shift any organization’s sustainability program in a more practical direction.
And here’s the twist: the surest way to simplify our industry’s approach to sustainability might be to sharpen our focus on the toughest sustainability issues we face.
Thanks for this [...]
Sweating the Small Stuff on Sustainable Hotels
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010I’ve just recently returned from a month in Western Canada, about half of it spent onsite. It was a good trip, but I have a quibble with one of the hotels where I stayed.
It’s a small quibble, as quibbles go. You wouldn’t be wrong to conclude that if this was my only complaint, I actually [...]
Behind the Curtain: Why the Meetings Supply Chain Matters
Saturday, June 26th, 2010One of the most profound ways for our industry to green its operations is to think of everything we do as part of a supply chain, not just as an end product.
It’s a simple mental shift that carries big implications for meetings and events. It may run counter to the training and habits that many [...]
Okay, You Caught Me
Saturday, December 12th, 2009(Editor’s note: The following declaration was retrieved from a little-used email cache in The Conference Publishers’ account management department. Those responsible have been sacked hacked.)
The recent release of emails hacked from leading climate scientists has convinced me: the jig is up. I can finally admit the truth. I am a member of a vast, secret [...]
Does Demand from Meetings Drive Airlines’ Greenwashing?
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Whether or not it’s deliberate, a major travel industry association seems to be applying a touch of greenwash to its members’ steadily growing carbon footprint.
And it seems likely that continuing demand from meetings and events might be one of the underlying causes.
Sometimes it isn’t clear whether an organization has set out to mislead, or whether [...]
A Virtual (R)Evolution-Part 1
Friday, November 14th, 2008Part 1: A Recipe for Disaster
Start out with a well-rounded, well-founded measure of enthusiasm for the latest virtual meeting technologies.
Add a healthy dose of concern about climate change, with a dollop of unintended greenwashing.
Factor in a preoccupation with cutting meeting costs to the bone, without pausing to consider what may be lost along the way.
Subtract [...]
“Water Where It Didn’t Used To Be”
Friday, August 29th, 2008The Arctic is changing so quickly that it’s become one of the many early warning systems for global climate change. Each year brings new reports of ice sheets breaking off into the sea, along with a mad scramble to plan shipping routes and resource development projects that would have been difficult or impossible a generation [...]