Our Green Mission
PMG & Sustainability
Our PMG Green Team is committed to sustainability as a core value in achieving our long-term ambition to hold 100% of our professional, in-person meetings at 100% carbon neutral or carbon negative by 2025. We strive for a cleaner, safer, and more inclusive world in everything we do.
We are achieving this through initiatives where PMG
can deliver the most value through recycling, reusing, and minimizing the use of resources wherever possible. Our team achieves this by greening workplace processes, introducing new habits at home and in our meetings, getting hands-on at volunteer events, testing new skills, and building a greener community.
Parthenon Management Group recognizes the importance incorporating sustainability into our business model and our partnerships. Within our office space, we are encouraging personal responsibility and accountability for green choices through:
- A Work from Home Policy
- A solid recycling program (paper, plastic, glass, cardboard)
- Minimal printing and other paper use
- Elimination of single-use kitchen items
- Reduction devices for the use of water and electricity
Carbon-Neutral Meetings
100% Carbon neutral meetings
Working with our meeting partners (hotels, transportation organizations, and suppliers), we continually communicate and prioritize our commitment to sustainability initiatives.
In addition to offsetting the meeting’s carbon footprint through our in-house carbon management department, we promote and encourage the use of locally-sourced ingredients in conference meals, donation of leftover food, composting, reusable plates, cups, cutlery, and other crockery, reduced paper use, LEED certification, and recycling of name badges, paper, bottles, boxes, and plastics.
Our goal is to achieve 100% carbon-neutral meetings.
in advance of our meetings:
- We determine the carbon footprint of our professional in-person meetings in-house as a benefit and a cost-saving measure for our clients.
- With the estimate, the association then decides which of three charities will receive their offset amount.
We have chosen the following charities: One Tree Planted, charity: water, and Heifer International.
on site:
- Promote zero waste dining and utensil options
- Provide recycling facilities in meeting and dining rooms
- Work with catering services to reduce unnecessary packaging
- Use organic and locally sourced ingredients
- Where possible, work with local food security agencies
- Minimize food waste, unnecessary packaging and single use water bottles
- Monitor energy conservation
- Promote sustainable transportation options