How Green Are Your Meetings?

Are you interested in saving water, saving energy, reducing solid waste at your next event? How about saving money?

The Green Hotels Association offers a free questionnaire to anyone involved in planning meetings for their clients or organization.

You can reveal the "greenness" of your venue by answering a few simple "yes" and "no" questions.

"When planning meetings or conventions", Green Hotels Association's President Patricia Griffin suggests, the questionnaire can be faxed to four or five hotels. When the planner is making a final decision between perhaps two hotels, the planner should call or fax again to ask management if there is one further green accomplishment the hotel will offer to obtain this business. The hotel can perhaps install low-flow aerators on one floor of rooms, add a recycling bin for aluminum by the pool or in a public area, stop using paper doilies on serving trays, delamp vending machines or even contact "Green" Hotels Association for further information."