The Delta Institute is a premier nonprofit environmental technical assistance and training organization that has work for the past eleven years to transform the Great Lakes Region into the vital center of the emerging green economy. Delta is a leading resource to businesses, public institutions, communities and individuals seeking to grow through sustainability.

Our Customers

• Events -- Event producers, planners and management companies
• Destinations -- convention and visitors bureaus, destination management companies, tourism departments, states and regional government agencies are served through Delta's strategic partnership with Green Your Destination.
• Meeting Venues -- convention centers, conference centers, hotels and resorts, museums, park districts, corporate, university and college conference centers, and other public and private meeting venues.
• Hospitality -- restaurants, caterers, food and beverage vendors.
• Exhibiting -- exhibitors, show management companies, audio visual producers
• Vendors -- printers, event supplies, specialty items, gifts.

Our Services

• Assessment -- We can help you quickly and cost-effectively assess your event or audit your meeting facility, product or service against APEX or other standards and recommend a strategy for increasing
• Technical Assistance -- Delta offers hands-on guidance for implementing sustainability initiatives at the community, institution and event level, including project coordination, RFP development, vendor evaluation and selection, logistics, measurement, etc.
• Certification and Verification -- Delta has a long and successful track record of providing hands-on support to commercial buildings, hotels and restaurants for achieving third-party certifications, such as LEED and Green Seal. We can also help marketers of other products and services achieve compliance with APEX standards or apply for other green certifications.
• Carbon Footprinting and Offsets -- Delta Carbon provides carbon-footprinting for events, communities and businesses and can help offset event impact with high-quality, locally produced carbon credits. We can even work with community stakeholders to develop innovative local carbon-reduction and offset strategies.
• Purchasing -- Delta's Buying Better program can help planners and suppliers quickly and easily find products and services that comply with APEX, LEED or other relevant sustainability standards and purchase them at heavily discounted prices.
• Training and Education -- Delta can provide education and training on a broad range of sustainability topics including the new APEX standard, best practices in eco-tourism, green building and operations, waste and water management, green purchasing, local sustainable food and many other topics. For current offerings, visit www.delta-institute.org/greentraining.

For more information about these programs and services, please contact:

The Delta Institute
Deborah Popely, Associate Director
(312) 554-0900 X 15
dpopely@delta-institute.org