In honor of Earth Day, we wanted to use a post to share some ideas on how to make your events a bit more environmentally friendly. A four-day national tradeshow can cause 1,874 pounds of emissions per in-person participant. That's equivalent to burning two barrels of oil. The average conference participant produces 1.41.lbs of landfill at event venues each day.

There is a wide range of things you can do to make your event more "green." Below are a couple of tips that range from incredibly involved (likely needing a dedicated staff to manage) to more basic. In looking at these options you need to decide what is feasible given your event, attendees, and budget as well as which would make the biggest impression on attendees.

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