Mary Poppins meets event sustainability
“Fun theory”. Just saying the two words one after the other sucks any “good times” energy out of the idea, doesn’t it? Contradictory terms, but a gem of an idea […]
Author Archives: Shawna McKinley
Six ideas to jumpstart your event’s carbon weight loss plan
500,000 pounds! Pretty dramatic weight loss for an event that in 2011 weighed 1.8 million pounds. In 2011, when Oracle OpenWorld began measuring the carbon footprint of onsite logistics, the […]
A Call to Service
“Hope is a doing thing.” These five words are scrawled in a tattered journal kept by my Mother. She was a pretty amazing lady. Yes for all the well-she’s-my-Mom-reasons, but […]
Meeting Mythbusters: Vinyl vice?
If every meeting held in the USA used one banner, it would use enough vinyl to cover approximately 760 American football fields. And while some meetings go without vinyl, many […]
UUA celebrates 10 years of event sustainability progress
“Perhaps we should realize that our need is not to ‘find something to believe’—but rather to discover that our lives indicate what we believe right now. This is the place […]
Meeting Mythbusters: Bioplastic fantastic?
Photo: Hartmann Studios Odds are you’re likely using them at your event right now. But what do you really know about them, and should you be using them? Today’s Meeting […]
Smooth Sailing: America’s Cup Sustainability Photo Essay
Massively expensive yachts aside, this sailing stuff is pretty exciting. Blessed with a break in San Francisco this weekend, I took a turn by America’s Cup Park for Race 14 […]
Do events have the power to heal?
“What bonds us is our humanity. Who cares about politics. Who cares about religion. Who cares about all those other things. It’s about creating a social fabric that allows all […]
Sometimes all you need to do is ask
I come from the “Lock it Up” school of event sustainability: all event sustainability practices shall be signed on the dotted line to ensure seamless, as-promised delivery. No room for […]
Event Sustainability Lessons from a Stanley Cup Champion
Dear Mr. Mike Richter, I’d like to ask your forgiveness. You see, for the last 19 years I’ve had a bit of a grudge against you. If you don’t remember […]
