CONTENTS September 2012 Volume 27, Issue 9 87 BOOKINGS The Trashing of America


The United States is in denial about the enormous amount of trash that it generates, according to Edward Humes, author of a new book about garbage. But individuals, businesses,


and communities are waking up to the benefits of being less wasteful. Barbara Palmer


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PCMA Global Corporate Summit participant Klaus Andreas Span snapped this shot of an exhibit at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.


PCMA CONVENING LEADERS PREVIEW Oren Klaff


The master pitchman and Masters Series speaker at Convening Leaders 2013 on the power of the human attention span, the differ- ence between pitching and selling — and why meetings


are a “horrible” environment for both. Christopher Durso


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PLENARY Government meetings in a post-GSA world. Pre Con: International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Post Con: First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Plus: World Choir Games; Jazzercise Tropic Heat; indepen- dent spirit Jill Taub Drury.


Special Section


PCMA PARTNERS Working together to create meetings education


98 IEG IMEX America 2012


99 Keppler Speakers Montréal Katie Kervin


36 URBAN PLANNER Ottawa Jennifer N. Dienst


38 INNOVATIVE MEETINGS What’s in It for Them? Katie Kervin


40 FORWARD THINKING Fool’s Gold Dave Lutz, CMP


42 WORKING SMARTER About Those Apps Sarah Beauchamp


44 MEETING MANAGEMENT: SPONSORSHIP Seeing Orange Kim Skildum-Reid


46 GIVING BACK Caring’s Bottom Line Barbara Palmer


102 OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED Who Goes There? Carrie Abernathy, CMP, CEM


ALSO IN THIS ISSUE


7 Comments 8 Behind the Scenes 10 To the Point 12 Planner’s Notebook 14 PCMA Today 101 Advertiser Index


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