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10 Ways to run a Greener Conference
May 26th, 2010
Book a venue as near to your attendees as possible. In practical terms distance outweighs all other factors.
- Use technology, encourage people to slouch at their desks rather than attend your event. Use webcasting etc. Combine with an absolute minimisation of all paper, i.e. delegate packs, signage etc.
- Endeavour to know what your impact is, survey your delegates, how did they get to the event, where did they come from. Don’t forget 1984 is long past; this is the age of the virtual big brother.
- Bully your suppliers ensure they follow your green and pleasant way, if not the chop.
- Think creative, axe the rubber chicken. Get your venue to show on the venue detailed source notes for all all ingredients, challenge them to source all nationally. Go in it’s a World Cup year they can do it.
- Think waste, all waste. Well maybe a drop toilet is a step! Too far, but what is wrong with quantifing all waste streams, ensuring all is recycled, zero to landfill.
- Educate, what’s the point of doing something if you can’t show off about it. Let you delegates know what you are doing, educate the customer bully the supplier.
- Learn, lots and lots of people only go so far then they give up. This applies to all walks of life, not just the green path. Ask all around you, to paraphrase our greet leader Mr. Cameron, it’s not what society can do for you, it’s what you can do for society. So speaks an old etonian. (or as my spell-check puts it Estonian)
- Try; if you don’t start you won’t get any greener.
- Look at the Cavendish Conference Venues website www.cavendishconferencevenues.com for a smorgersboard of further green insights.
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Cavendish Conference Venues a story of PIGS
May 25th, 2010
A new meaning for an old world enters the lexicon, PIGS follows hard on the heels of BRICS etc. While we often feel as unloved by our great leaders as a sinking Maldivian Athol, we cannot honestly claim to be a nation in our own right. What we can claim and are proud of is that within the nation of the Cavendish we have representatives of all the nations so unfairly labelled a PIG, Portuguese, lots of Irish and a dash of Greek. So if you want to experience the very best conference centres London can offer, combining the flair of the PIGS, the cool calmness of an award winning conference team (Visit London business and sustainable venue of the year 2009 /10) and the reassurance of a group of central London venues where 93% of their clients on 2008 also booked in 2009 then come and use our venues.
Mayfair Conference Centre, Cavendish Conference Centre, America Square Conference Centre, Hallam Conference Centre, ICO Conference Centre
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Are all conferences the same ?
May 20th, 2010
Sometimes in this business you get the feeling that all conferences are basically the same, incomprehensible titles, men in suits etc. NOT HERE NOT RECENTLY. In the last month we have had anarchistic demonstrators, geriatric flashers and now dignity in death. Contestants on have I got news for you might be able to see a connection here, I can’t. I guess it doesn’t really matter the message is clear we at Cavendish Conference Venues (Mayfair Conference Centre, Cavendish Conference Centre, America Square Conference Centre, Hallam Conference Centre) have a venue for everyone, I am tempted to say alive or dead though that might be in bad taste.
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The Impossible Dilemma Profit or Virtue
May 17th, 2010
The doom email arrived this morning ‘As a result of the election and hung parliament ….. will need to cut costs’
What do you do ? With the grisly spectacle of Gorgeous George Osborne and his deathly side kick Mr Cable wielding the death axe of cuts we certainly cannot afford to loose any clients. The gander has no fat, there is no margin we can eat into. As night follows day if we are to cut our costs we have to make savings somewhere, but where?
One of the lowest hanging fruit in our Garden of Eden is entitled Green Strategy. Going Green is expensive, to give an example, composting our food waste is 36% more expensive then sending it to landfill. Like rabbits in the headlights we don’t know what to do, for now the strategy for on high is fudge. A classic recipe involving beating up our suppliers and scrimping on the margins, (no more chocolate biscuits etc)
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generate your own
April 23rd, 2010
We are running out of ideas as how to further reduce our environmental footprint. One idea being actively investigated by our green group is the possibility of installing some excise bikes at our Hallam Conference Centre, the aim being to link them up to a small generator and help power the place, who knows maybe we could even sell some of the stuff back to the grid. I am not sure how many delegates would use it even we have installed delegate showers etc. Our better bet might be the staff, our most flatulent of chefs recently completed a marathon, virtually a one man power source.
Mayfair Conference Centre, Hallam Conference Centre, America Square Conference Centre, Cavendish Conference Centre, ICO Conference Centre
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