Use these green meeting tools to calculate your carbon footprint and make your meeting paperless:
Wipe the Slate Clean
One of the most frustrating realities for planners and attendees of offsite meetings is the fact that all the green initiatives in the world can be washed away by the amount of carbon generated flying to the meeting. Attendees and planners who must fly and feel guilty about the carbon emissions, can visit www.countdownyourcarbon.org to calculate the carbon emissions they are generating both in the air and on the ground, and purchase offsets to balance out their impact on the environment.
The Paperless Meeting
The MeetingPod is a paperless, electronic meeting system. It holds all the meeting information that each attendee can then view on their individual MeetingPod. This means that they do not have to print agendas, minutes from the last meeting, or any other information relevant to that meeting. Presentations can even be viewed on the built-in screen making meeting room tables more efficient and easier to layout and use. For more information visit www.synanto.com.
Originally published Nov. 1, 2008
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