Montreal Events

Earth Day is next week, so if you haven't starting thinking about greening your events, now is a great time to start. But if you feel overwhelmed when it comes to making your events more environmentally friendly, here's some advice: start at the beginning with the destination. Choosing a green meeting destination betters your chances of finding green venues, abundant natural spaces and an overall eco-friendly attitude.

Meeting Strategies Worldwide has put together the Best Places to MeetGreen Scorecard. It recognizes the ability of a city to provide green meeting services, raking them according to environmental programs in place at the convention and visitors' bureau, convention center and hotels in the city's conference package.

So what cities are your best bet for green meetings, according to the scorecard? Here are the six ranked destinations:

1. Portland, Oregon
2. San Francisco, California
3. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
4. Seattle, Washington
5. Orlando, Florida
6. Montreal, Canada

In honor of Earth Day, I want to pick a one or two venues from each of these cities that make it easy for you to host an environmentally friendly meeting. If you have any venue suggestions, let me know! In the meantime, I'll be searching the Cvent Supplier Network for ideas.