Editor's Pick: Meet Better

June 22, 2015

Tyler Davidson

Meet Better: 167 Easy Ways to Make Your Events More Environmentally and Socially Responsible

Three of the foremost sustainable meetings experts in the industry have teamed up to author this beginners’ guide to planning and executing green meetings.

Penned by MeetGreen’s Nancy Zavada and Shawna McKinley, along with Meeting Change’s Mariela McIlwraith, Meet Better provides an easy first stepping stone to producing meetings and events that are friendly both to the Earth and those who call it home.

The book is divided into three sections: The first deals with logistics and how to integrate sustainability into the core elements of a meeting program; the second, how program elements can reflect sustainability; and the last offers steps to help planners further sustainability efforts in their events and organizations.

“This book is all about getting started,” Zavada explains on MeetGreen’s website. “These are the easy, low-hanging fruit to make your event more environmentally and socially responsible. Hopefully, it will help spark excitement for sustainable events that will encourage you to continue on the path.”

You can find an excerpt of the book, and it is available to order on MeetGreen’s website.

About the author

Tyler Davidson is the vice president and chief content director for Meetings Today, which publishes the meetings industry trade magazine Meetings Today as well as MeetingsToday.com, various newsletters, webinars, the in-person Meetings Today LIVE! Hosted-buyer events and other meetings and events industry B2B channels.

Tyler has covered the travel trade for nearly 35 years. In his role with Meetings Today, which recently won the prestigious FOLIO: Eddies Award for best magazine issue, Tyler leads the editorial team on its mission to provide the most in-depth meetings content in the industry. Previously, he worked as the Asia, Canada, Pacific Northwest and Western U.S. editor at Travel Weekly magazine and TravelAge West. Before joining the dual editorial staff producing destination sections for Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, Tyler was the Africa, Israel, Middle East, Switzerland and Pacific Northwest editor at TravelAge West. He also undertook general news and feature assignments while working at the magazines.

Besides reporting on the travel trade, Tyler has covered the real estate industry, held various editorial positions at the San Francisco-based national satire magazine The Nose, wrote freelance technology industry pieces and covered the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders for a bilingual newspaper in San Francisco. He has a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University, where he worked in various editorial capacities on its award-winning student magazine, Prism.

Contact: tyler.davidson@meetingstoday.com