WELCOME > 15WCEE, a Green Meeting

Green Meetings - Good for the Earth & Good for Business

To continue to enjoy the quality of life we treasure we all need to work and live in a more sustainable manner. For this meeting this involves making a concerted effort to reduce our use of resources and the amount of waste that results from the meeting activities.

The Organisers are inviting delegates to attend a meeting focused on sustainability.

• To drive the sustainable focus, the Organisers have approached all conference aspects with resource-consumption awareness. Meetings geared toward sustainability have three main goals: they are good for business; good for the Earth; and benefit host communities.

You will see these principals incorporated throughout the conference including:

• Badges will be recycled after the conference

• Printed promotional materials such as post cards and brochures have been dramatically reduced in size/length and printed on recycled paper with more information posted online

• Where possible, locally grown organic foods will be used at event functions

• Earth-friendly promotional products will be distributed at the conference
  

• The conference programme will be printed on the first few pages of the padfolio delegates receive at registration, resulting in one less printed brochure

• Water will be served in jugs and not plastic bottles whenever possible
  

• Donation of un-served food to soup kitchens, homeless shelters or other community service organizations. All left over materials (such

as bags, padfolios etc.) will be donated to a local primary school.

• Collection and distribution of leftover exhibit materials to charitable organizations.
  

• Providing un-used office supplies and equipment to local schools or charitable organizations.
  

• Setting aside free exhibit space for local non-profit organizations.