There is so much buzz around "going green" right now, from international government polices about global warming down to what toilet bowl cleaners you use in your bathroom. Even meeting, event and training planners are not exempt.  "Green meetings" have recently been headlining the covers of your favorite industry mags like Corporate EVENT, Smart Meetings or MPI's Meeting Professional, with articles on everything from minimizing travel to advice on china service and locally grown catering.
Smart Meetings Magazine Green Issue October 2007
As Fortune 1000 corporations, professional associations, universities and government agencies begin implementing their own overall green strategies, planners are under special scrutiny to focus on the amount of resources that go into every meeting, special event, conferences, trade show or training program. The carbon imprint of travel arrangements, the linen policies of hotel venues, the impact of where flowers arrangements are grown, the extensiveness of recycling efforts - there are so many factors for planners when trying to plan green.

Luckily there is one easy green tactic planners have already had at their fingertips for a while now, online registration technology. The old school way to plan an event involved having tons of glossy collateral printed up and delivered by mail. Everyone then had to fill out their registration forms to mail or fax back. Online registration makes this entire process dynamically virtual via the internet, so significant amounts of paper are eliminated and emissions from mail delivery can be minimized.

Certain recently put out some tips on making such a paperless technology part of your green strategy with their white paper called  "The Easiest Way to Go Green Right Now".

>>Gianni Michael Lyle, Marketing Communications, Certain