Green Event Resources

Policies and General Info

• National Recycling Coalition Green Meetings Policy
• BlueGreen Meetings
  We're making it easier for you to hold meetings that don't cost the earth. Whether you are a host, planner or supplier, this is where you'll find the tips, tools and resources to make environmentally responsible choices for your meetings.
• The EPA-developed Guide to Planning Environmentally Aware Meetings and Events
• EPA press release with link to 14-point checklist to use when assessing event locations.
• The US Environmental Protection Agency’s One Stop Information Source for Green Meetings
  - actually links to BlueGreen Meetings, but also has additional information.
• UC Santa Barbara's Green Event Planning Guide
• Meeting Strategies Worldwide is a conference management, consulting and training firm that works with associations and corporate organizations. We are dedicated to making your conference a premiere industry event while using our unique environmentally friendly approach to your advantage.
• Meeting Strategies Useful Links

Hotels

• "Green" Hotels Association's® purpose is to bring together hotels interested in environmental issues. From adding "Drinking water served on request only" to the menu to installing new HVAC systems, and with every measure in between, "Green" Hotels Association® encourages, promotes and supports the "greening" of the lodging industry. Includes list of hotels
• Ceres' Green Hotel Initiative (GHI) is designed to increase and demonstrate market demand for environmentally responsible hotel services. The GHI leverages purchasing power to increase the supply of green hotels available to businesses and individual travelers.
• GreenSeal’s list of certified green hotels. Not very extensive, but a start.
• TerraChoice list of green hotels: also not extensive
• Green Resorts: Uno Lodge, Copper Canyon, Mexico Papoose Creek Lodge, Cameron Montana Canopy Tower Soberania National Park, Panama
• Bucuti - has complete list of green practices

Restaurants

• Green Restaurant Guide

Boston Specific

• Boston Green Tourism - encourages visitor-industry professionals to green their operations. They promote Greater Boston as a green destination and help meeting planners achieve their environmental objectives.
  

Content updated by Tina Woolston
twoolston@earthwatch.org
Earthwatch Institute

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