Archive for February, 2010

What's happening at our Central London Conference Venues

Is it worth it ?

All this blogging all these thousands of words, why. It’s not clear if we are want to be Samuel Pepys or just desperately trying to brown tongue the latter day god of Mr. Google.  What’s even sadder our guru won’t tell us his likes or dislikes, truly a deity? We make offerings (countless hours and billions of words) does he see them, are they worth it, who knows. Cavendish conference ...

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Keep it Local

Having just spent a week in France I realize how jumbled up our environmental agenda is. On one hand we are seemingly ahead in the gimmick stakes, pencils made from recycled cups etc. On the other we are nowhere when it comes to some of the practicalities, free plastic bags at supermarkets etc. How does this relate to London conference centres and our desire to be London’s greenest venue. One ...

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Cavendish Conference Venues move to Smart meters

Cavendish Conference Venues move to Smart meters We are installing smart meters at all our London conference venues for all our electricity supplies. This is part of our ongoing commitment to be as green / sustainable as possible. Smart meters are invaluable; they measure our electricity consumption far more accurately than conventional meters. We use the meter readings to check for electricity leakage and wastage, as such accurate meters will ...

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Cavendish Conference Venues announce two major Green Initiatives

Cavendish Conference Venues announce two major Green Initiatives. We have now moved all our electricity supplies from the Megalith that is EDF albeit on a green tariff (Carbon levy exempt) to Ecotricity. The logic is twofold. Firstly we prefer dealing with smaller companies, EDF professes to have somewhere over 100 000 employees, there is just no human face; it is all about systems and processes. Second, EDF produces both clean ...

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