I put this picture up on Google Plus yesterday and it is still bothering me so much that I decided to post my thoughts here, a larger audience for me than Google Plus. My thinking was, how many times do the unsuspecting buy into the load of crap that companies in the industry are selling […]
Category: Sustainability and CSR
When Your Meetings and Events Cause Harm By Doing Good
This is a post that I have been working on for about a month and I will be honest and say that I have been a little apprehensive in posting this because I was / am concerned about the backlash that I would receive. In the end, I have never been one to back down […]
Every Event Can Change the World
There are some people that I like without ever meeting them in person. You know those people….some are famous like Walter Cronkite, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hanks or Rachel Maddow… all seemingly good people that you would want to have a conversation with and maybe a beer or two. Then there are the people that we […]
Ridiculous Packaging – Stop it Now
OK, so I am driving across the great state of Indiana a few weeks ago and I stop at a Starbucks to grab a Venti Coffee. My traveling companions, including a 5-year-old with a sweet tooth the size of My Everest spy the little carrot cakes and climb all over themselves to be the first […]
Green Meetings and Conferences – Earth Day 2011 and We are Failing
Last week saw another Earth Day come and go. I won’t say it was a happy Earth Day because we are still failing badly as an industry. This is a rant. This is a rant at all of you that are doing nothing.. just sitting and waiting around for someone else to do something […]