NEWS AND NOTES FOR THE MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS INDUSTRY

All That Glitters Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. For more, see p. 28.

Growth Industry Blue Bear Farm sits on 5,000 square feet at the Colorado Convention Center. Sustainability a Mile High

Convention Center, and Image Audiovisuals — the convention center’s in-house AV provider — were certified in the categories of Destinations, Meeting Venue, and Audio-Visual, respectively. “The nice win is, it’s not just Denver saying we’re a green city,” said Tiffany

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Hoambrecker, Visit Denver’s associate director of convention services. “With these standards, we actually have a validation saying we’re third- party-certified with regard to this. There’s actually a platform to use as a measuring stick.”

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enver has become the first destination in the world to be certified under the APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Meeting Standards that were unveiled last year. Visit Denver, the Colorado

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ON THE WEB Sustainable meetings and events have gone global. Watch a four- part webcast about how GreenShoot Pacific implemented the ISO 20121 international event-sustainability standard at Sydney Festival 2012: • convn.org/iso-part-1 • convn.org/iso-part-2 • convn.org/iso-part-3 • convn.org/iso-part-4

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