Yesterday afternoon, I came across this list of top 10 trends. The first item on the list is GREEN. This list came at an interesting time. I work for a conference company and for the last several weeks, myself and two colleagues had been brainstorming the greening of our conferences. We unveiled our ideas and requested more at a team meeting yesterday. When I came back to my office, I found this list, confirming what we already knew: we need to go green or die. OK--so maybe we wouldn't die this year or even in the next couple of years. But we would eventually die. And why not be ahead of the curve? I have this image of us running to catch up with our competitors, but we can't because we're all trying to drag Xerox boxes full of course books printed on non-recycled paper behind us.
Over the last few weeks, I did a lot of research and uncovered an interesting fact: it is kind of hard to learn about greening conferences and events. Not that there isn't any information out there. It's there, but you really have to look for it . There's nobody (who I could find) who is out there doing all the work for you. I'm hoping to funnel all green ideas through this site. I don't claim to be a green meeting expert, but I am working on green initiatives for our conference company and I fancy myself a pretty good researcher. It could just be a good match.
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