Sustainability

Fighting on two fronts: remaining sustainable in a pandemic

June 15, 2020Fighting on two fronts: remaining sustainable in a pandemicDavid Vaughton, managing director of Make Venues chats to M&IT about why the meetings and events industry can be the solution, not the problem, to macro subjects such as climate change, even during a pandemic.

World Environment Day: building a greener future for the events industry

June 5, 2020World Environment Day: building a greener future for the events industryThe conversation around creating a greener future has never been louder, thanks in part, to the young and wise Swedish activist, Greta Thunberg.

#Eventprofs for Change launches with message of empowerment

May 6, 2020#Eventprofs for Change launches with message of empowermentA new group of event professionals - #Eventprofs for Change - has launched with a mission to help accelerate the rate of change towards a more sustainable events industry.

ICE teams up with ‘Good Business Festival’ in sustainability drive

April 22, 2020ICE teams up with ‘Good Business Festival’ in sustainability driveThe In-house Corporate Events (ICE) community has announced it will be taking part in the Liverpool-based Good Business Festival later this year.

Earth Day utilised by event planners to highlight sustainability

April 21, 2020Earth Day utilised by event planners to highlight sustainabilityM&IT caught up with Legacy’s Abena Poku-Awuah to learn how event planners can utilise Earth Day, happening on 22 April.

Let's make events sustainable for the long haul, says TTA

April 2, 2020Let's make events sustainable for the long haul, says TTACoronavirus may be gripping the world right now, but climate change is just as much of a crisis and the industry needs to get a grip on becoming more sustainable, argues Dominic Bemrose, business development director at TTA in the latest in our Changing Times series...

"It's not just back to normal after this - we've got to go online"

March 31, 2020"It's not just back to normal after this - we've got to go online"We caught up with event consultant William Thomson of Gallus Events to talk about online events as part of our Changing Times series of industry views on the unfolding coronavirus outbreak...

Changing Times: A new era of hybrid, digitally enhanced events?

March 30, 2020Changing Times: A new era of hybrid, digitally enhanced events?In our series of Changing Times interviews with event organisers, we find out the ways in which the meetings industry is adapting and surviving in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Here, Carole Quinn, operations director at Legacy Sustainable Event Management, considers how COVID-19 could shape...

Legacy launches ‘The Green Room’ forum for sustainability drive

March 25, 2020Legacy launches ‘The Green Room’ forum for sustainability driveSustainability-focused events agency, Legacy, has launched its online forum, ‘The Green Room’, a platform to help event planners chat about sustainable events.

Changing expectations: what event planners need to know about food waste

March 4, 2020Changing expectations: what event planners need to know about food wasteEnhancing education, communication and changing food choice expectations were some of the key findings taken from the M&IT Food Waste roundtable discussion that took place at Twickenham Stadium on Thursday 20 February.Show More