The Experience - Meet Green
There are many simple ways to include green practices in your meeting. In addition to contacting customer service representatives at each property to inquire about specific green offerings, here are a few ideas to get you started.
- Use signs that can be re-purposed.
- Ask for recycling bins at your meeting site, and indicate to attendees where they are located.
- Send out meeting materials electronically. This saves time and paper.
- Provide glasses for water instead of plastic bottles.
- Choose reusable nametags and nametag holders. Collect them after each meeting.
- Turn off and unplug all electronic devices after use.
- Invite attendees using electronic invitations and/or set up a website. If you must use paper invitations, print on recycled content paper.
- Consider alternatives to traditional Styrofoam and plastic “to-go” coffee cups and condiments.
- Serve food and snacks that require minimal serving containers.
- Coordinate with the meeting venue to ensure that energy for lights and air conditioning will be turned off when rooms are not in use.
- Offer beverages in containers that are reusable and serve water or other drinks in pitchers.
- Use china and linens to prevent waste or use paper plates, napkins, cups and utensils that are biodegradable or made from recycled material.
- Communicate to your meeting attendees that the meeting is a green meeting, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. Give them suggestions such as turning off their lights and air conditioning when they leave their room, for example.
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- Hilton Head Island was the
country’s first eco-planned community.
- Hilton Head Island is one of the only places in the world where dolphins "strand feed."
- South Carolina has more coastal marsh than any other state in the U.S.
- Hilton Head Island’s lights-out program fosters healthy sea turtle nesting.
- Hilton Head Island provides over 80 miles of public pathways and nature trails for both biking and walking.
- Sea Pines Forest Preserve features a 605 acre protected wildlife habitat.
- Bicycles are available for rent all over the Island.
- Seas Pines Resort’s Ocean Course is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary course.
- Hilton Head Island hosts the Audubon Newhall Preserve, with 50 acres of pristine forest where native plant life is tagged and identified.
- Pinckney Island National Wildlife
Refuge, nestled between the
mainland and the shores
of Hilton Head Island,
boasts 4,053 acres of
various indigenous
wildlife and land
habitats.
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