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Green meetings industry – All together now! Making waves
At Green Meeting Ninjas, we’re new to the green meetings block but we’re confident that we’re going to be making waves. Not the rock the boat, annoy others in the industry kind of waves, but the sweet...
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Event planning job outlook: 44% growth by 2020
I came across this little statistical gem the other day on the United States Department of Labor’s website: the job outlook for “meeting, convention and event planners” looks great, with a projected...
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Event sustainability is not about love of nature – it’s BIG business!
For the love of nature? Yeah right! Event sustainability, like corporate sustainability, is all about business. There are no granola eating, tie-dye wearing, tree hugging hippies in this mix. You see,...
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Green meeting hashtags
An informative blog post by Priscilla Chan about important event industry hashtags inspired me to produce my own post relating to green meeting #hashtags. Here are some Twitter (and Google+) #hashtags...
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Innovation is event sustainability’s call-to-action and a good reason for...
I’m halfway through a really great book, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken. Originally published in 1993, with a revised edition published in 2010, the book...
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Growth in the meetings and events industry
In a previous post, I described how the events industry was poised for growth. I based this on some research that had predicted a significant increase in the number of event planning jobs across the...
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Rio2016 Olympics: From Sustainable Event Hosting to Long Term Legacies
The Rio2016 Summer Olympic Games have just finished with a festive finale. No doubt the Games’ workforce, 50,000 volunteers and the many hosting agencies are exhausted and exhilarated for having...
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