Who Cares about Green Meetings?

Are Green Issues ‘Fringe’ or Fundamental? Meeting Industry isn’t Sure

by Rachel Globus | Published in July 2006 Focus on Production

Walter Foletti of Expoforce AG (center) accepts IMEX’s first Green Exhibitor Award, presented by IMEX Chairman Ray Bloom (right) and Green Meeting Industry Council Director Amy Spatrisano (left), for the stand his company created for the Sri Lankan Conven

The Oregon Convention Center’s rain garden uses native plants to clean rain water collected on the building’s roof.

The David L. Lawrence Convention Center’s environmentally friendly features reduce its potable water use by nearly 60 percent and its annual energy use by approximately 35 percent.

The Fort Worth Convention Center offered commercial recycling for the first time in order to meet the needs of the Unitarian Universalist Association, which held its annual meeting there in 2005.

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Several years ago, Amy Spatrisano, CMP w

About the author: Rachel Globus

Rachel Globus is the former editor and education director for Event Solutions.

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