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  • Posted by Michael Pinchera at
    12:00AM 05/22/2012 • 0 Comments

    Save the Green Planet

    Two awesome pieces of news that appear to conflict:

    1) Elon Musk, the most interesting man in the world (co-founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors), and his SpaceX team (yeah, he founded that, too) successfully launched their first rocket for NASA.

    2) Earlier this month, the Green Meeting Industry Council debuted Meeting the Future, “the world’s first guide to aligning meeting and event industry planning practices with the scientific principles of sustainable development.”


    These two stories cross paths in my mind as I attempt to reconcile my love of space travel (and related dreams) with the potential environmental damage from space travel (and related industries). I remember watching countless shuttle launches from my backyard, and giggled to myself as I realized how many people on the Space Coast were likely woken up abruptly by the 3:44 a.m. launch. ☺

    Space tourism via SpaceX is still years away; affordable space tourism is a lifetime away. What about sustainable space tourism?

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  • Posted by Theresa Davis at
    12:00AM 11/02/2010 • 0 Comments

    Just a bit of Alphabet Soup

    Before coming into the meeting and event industry, I was in travel, and before that in healthcare.  And in each iteration of my career I thought - wow we speak in a lot of acronyms.  But I have to say, so far in my experience this industry takes the C-A-K-E.  So as we collaborated with partner associations on developing the Sustainable Event Measurement Tool (released at WEC 2010) we had some fun poking fun at ourselves and all the acronyms we've grown to develop a love/hate relationship with.

    So without further ado, I present to you our Engage readers, the debut of the SEMT brought to you by MPI and GMIC - asap.