A JUNO FIRST!

THE 2011 JUNO AWARDS ON THE FOREFRONT OF NEW STANDARDS FOR EVENT SUSTAINABILITY!

Come and hear Strategin Solutions’ Ginny Stratton talk about her role with the Juno Awards, at the Vancouver Convention Centre on March 17^th, 2011. Canada’s most famous music award event is celebrating their 40^th year anniversary in Toronto. Over the years, the Juno Awards have been committed to reducing their carbon footprint and achieving sustainable initiatives. This year will be no different as this is the 2nd consecutive year the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) will be producing all JUNO branded apparel, with the use of organic cotton and viscose from bamboo. Ginny Stratton will reveal more insights on exciting initiatives the JUNO Awards has implemented in their event plan, and shows how event/meeting planners have a key role to play in contributing to event sustainability.

Another well respected panelist, Shawna McKinley, Director of Sustainability, MeetGreen® shows us how our day to day operations as event planners, impacts the environment.

Shawna McKinley will discuss how organizations can achieve these environmental goals:

• Save 1653 trees
• Enough energy to power 65 American homes for a year
• Eliminate 774,000 water bottles from the waste stream
• Conserve enough water to fill 3 Olympic-sized pools