The Scoop on Being Greener: Lunchtime

Did you know that bringing your lunch to work helps to stay green and healthy? Ordering from delivery and take-out restaurants can lead to heaps of unwanted waste, and tighter pants! To avoid extra waste (and extra waist!) try bringing your own lunch in a reusable container. This is your chance to dig out that old 'Howdy Doody' lunch box and give it a new life. When you bring a lunch from home, try to remember silverware from home, reusable tupperware instead of disposable plastic bags, and a reusable thermos or mug. The landfill and your body will be thanking you!

Save the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the kids, how about pasta salad, quiche, or a hearty soup? Check out chow.com for great lunch ideas!

We here at Conference and Event Services like to help you stay green and healthy-- what more could you ask for?

Happy Early Thanksgiving!

Monday November 23, 2009

To all those following and reading our blog, we'd like to say Happy Thanksgiving to you all a little early! We hope you all enjoy all of the delicious Thanksgiving foods with your friends and families and take a well deserved break from all the hustle and bustle that work provides us. Eat, smile, laugh, and have a fun! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

A jaunt around campus

Pathway through the Arboretum

Monday morning Aaron and I fired up the gem car and hit the ground running. We blasted past bike riders at 26 mph, in the golf cart-ish vehicle, which I approximate to have about 3 horse power. Our mission? Visiting campus event venues I hadn't been to yet. Even after spending 3 1/2 years here, I never knew how many cool spots the campus has to offer.

The west end of the Arboretum near Shields Grove Gazebo was a-glisten with morning dew and I realized the vastness of the space. Next stop was Vanderhoef Quad between the Mondavi and Alumni Centers. Is it just me, or is the fountain there cool? Shaped like a rectangle with the bottom end in the pool of water, water falls in long vertical strands, creating a curtain like effect. Finally, we ended up at the Good Life Garden. By this time it was around 11am and seeing all the beautiful, organic food there was making me pretty hungry, so needless to say it was time to leave before I pulled a carrot out of the ground!

The Arboretum, Vanderhoef Quad, and the Good Life Garden are just a few examples of beautiful outdoor venues for events here at UCD, and with 15 years in the 'biz,' Conference and Event Services can help you choose the perfect spot for your event!

Office Word of the Day: Consolidation

Friday November 13, 2009

With all of the consolidation going on through many departments within the University and with many organizations throughout Northern California, we encourage you to count on us to pick up the slack when it comes to your event planning needs. With 15 years of experience, we are here to lighten the load on an event that may cause you and your organization trouble. With our friendly event coordinators that have seen events of all shapes and sizes, we ask you to take a deep breathe and let us handle what we love to do. So the next time you think about how you are going to compensate for the shortage of people power in your office when you are planning an event, look no further than UC Davis Conference and Event Services. You can trust us, we're event coordinators.

Office Word of the Day: Qualified

Monday November 9, 2009

When working with UC Davis Conference and Event Services, you know that you are working with qualified event planners that are here to help you with your event. We've been at our job for years and with all of those years of experience under our belt, we are ready for various situations and ideas you can throw at us. You need internet access in your rooms? We have it. You need audio and visual equipment on site? We have that. You need on site accommodation? We have that too. Name something that we can do for you and we'll try to have everything there for you and your event to be an success. We're motivated, we're hardworking, and we're qualified. Trust us, we're event planners.

We Tweet, Do You??

Friday November 6, 2009

With web 2.0 racing toward the finish line and passing the torch onto web 3.0, our department is wondering who out there is in the web 2.0 business like we are, and more specifically we want to know who has a Twitter account? We've been tweeting away for quite sometime and we have found great folks and have heard great facts about what is going on in our community, green practices, national news, and much more. So are any of you out there tweeting? We'd like to follow you if you're reading our blog because most likely we share the same interest. If you're a tweet, follow us! We look forward to reading your tweets!

The Scoop on Being Greener: Compost, Compost, Compost

Monday November 2, 2009

Hopefully after a safe and fun Halloween for everyone out there, it is still important to remember that we all have a social responsibility to make sure we also think about the environment as well. Remember all of those pumpkins you bought for decorations? Or your neighbors house that is littered with numerous amounts of pumpkins? You do? Great, because you can compost those! Pumpkins are 100% compostable and everyone out there should look into composting all those lanterns that are still lingering around the house. Simple directions to compost your pumpkins can be found here. And remember, a greener post-Halloween can help the environment just that much more!