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Meeting Spaces Work to Keep the Earth Clean and Green

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Food sustainability, clean oceans and repurposed rainwater Compared to the largely unexplored universe we inhabit; our little blue and green shimmering marble is small. Smart Meetings selected a few of the top mentions to highlight initiatives and event spaces that are working to keep the Earth clean and green.

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How Events Helped a ‘Fringe’ Diet Lifestyle Go Mainstream

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The inaugural Plant Based World Conference & Expo took place at New York City’s Javits Center in 2019. a headline in The Guardian asked in 2019. In fact, research from Ipsos Retail Performance tracked the surge in vegans from 2004 — a period of “obscurity” when just 290,000 Americans considered themselves vegan — to 2019 when 9.7

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

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The reinvented meeting included trips to the New School, Radio City Music Hall, and St. By all accounts, the 17,000 or so annual attendees were enjoying it just fine — as they had for more than 150 years, when the then newly formed association wrote annual meetings right into its bylaws. Sustainability?” Patrick’s Cathedral.

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Beyond Carbon-Neutral Hotels: Evolution of Eco-Friendly Hotels

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of energy-efficient meeting space and will also feature ecological efforts off-property, including a commitment to plant trees enough to cover over 5,000 acres of forest. Over in New Haven, Connecticut, Hilton Hotels is working on—and accepting reservations starting May 19—the first “net-zero” hotel in the U.S. A Net-Zero Option.

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