Using Data to Decide What Makes Your Event Truly “Sustainable”
Event professionals have multiple choices to reduce carbon emissions at events. Which decisions are most effective?
Category Archives: Measurement
The Emissions Impact of Online, Hybrid and In-Person Meetings
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many event professionals to adapt their meetings to online formats. The shift presents a critical opportunity to learn about the carbon emissions impact of different types of meeting formats.
Six Simple Sustainable Event Choices that Make a Difference
If you think one simple step by one event professional doesn’t make a difference: think again. Even everyday decisions can make a big impact.
The Ultimate Online Guide to Sustainable Event Tools
Need help with your sustainable event plan? Odds are there’s an app for that. Or an online tool. Or maybe even a book to read. Don’t have the time to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Of Elephants and M+M’s: Green Event Kids Camp
There’s nothing like trying to explain something to a room full of eight year olds to wake you up to the fact that sometimes, you make things way more complicated […]
Meeting Mythbusters: The Cost of #Carbon Accountability
A recent column claiming tech conferences are destroying the world is the inspiration for today’s Meeting Mythbusters. While many a commenter has weighed in on everything from the science of […]
Sustainable Event Reporting, The Next Generation
Reporting about sustainable events grew up a little this month as Intel and Autodesk joined Oracle in disclosing information about sustainable event strategies in their annual corporate responsibility reports. Intel’s […]
