Meeting Strategies Award

The International Hotels Environment Initiative and Oceans Blue recently honored Meeting Strategies Worldwide with the first

Environmentally Responsible Meetings Award for its work on the 2002 Forest Leadership Forum. This event, showcasing ecological forest management certification programs, was held in April 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia. The award, presented at the IMEX Worldwide Exposition in Frankfurt, Germany, acknowledges environmental excellence and innovation and represents the highest accolades for environmental responsibility among meeting planners and hosts.

The judging criteria included minimizing environmental impact through energy efficiency, air and water quality, water conservation, waste management, waste minimization, and environmental purchasing. Other factors considered were economic indicators, commitment to change practices, commitment to the community, and commitment to conservation.

Meeting Strategies Worldwide has been contracted to green the U.S. Green Building Council’s GreenBuild Conference in Pittsburgh this November. For more information, visit

www.meetingstrategiesworldwide.com, or call 503-252-5458.