It requires buy-in from not just the hotel but meeting planners and attendees, but a new program at a West Coast property is geared toward the latter to start with.

Portola Hotel & Spa in Monterey, California, is now offering meeting and event planners the opportunity to create sustainable and eco-friendly meetings with the addition of new Reduced Waste Conferences. Located on the scenic Monterey Peninsula Portola Hotel & Spa lays claim to being Monterey’s first U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® Certified Hotel.