The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, along with their partner Sodexo Live, have made a strong commitment to the New Orleans and global communities. NOENMCC and Sodexo Live continually evaluate operational decisions based on waste reduction, energy conservation, water conservation and clean air practices. Examples include:
Visit our New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center page for more information on this state of the art facility.
Our own New Orleans & Company recently acquired the first EV-350 Transit electric freight vehicle in the state of Louisiana, to be used as our daily transit van. For more great initiatives like this, see below.
Hotard, one of New Orleans’ leading motor coach companies, recently switched to a greener fleet that reduces black smoke by 90 percent.
Streetcars in New Orleans are fully electric and provide an easy, and cheap, way to get around town. Check out our New Orleans Streetcars page for more information.
These installations are part of a broader EV charging station program run by Entergy New Orleans in partnership with the City of New Orleans to install 30 charging stations at 25 locations across the city. Read more about the initiative here.
The city’s compact downtown area is very walkable and minimizes the need for transportation. The compact geographic footprint of the city means an easy walk to and from some of our most famous offerings - from attractions and restaurants to meeting venues and hotels (over 26,000 sleeping rooms in a 2 mile radius) - saving you in transportation costs.
New Orleans is home to a number of environmentally responsible hotels that employ such tactics as linen reuse, light timers, visible placement of recycle baskets and conversion to glassware from plastic. When conventioneers book several thousand rooms, those environmental savings can make a big difference.
Second Line Stages, the first independent green stage company in the United States, recently opened in the Lower Garden District. Kern Studios float builders now use biodiesel tractors to pull floats during Mardi Gras. New Orleans even has a zero-waste annual music and art festival! A number of construction initiatives are bringing cutting-edge green home building technology to New Orleans.
CRCL partners with more than 2 dozen restaurants in the New Orleans area, as well as two drop-off locations, to collect oyster shell and return it to the water, where oyster reefs slow erosion and create habitat for new oysters to grow. Since 2014, CRCL has recycled more than 13 million pounds of shell, making this Oyster Shell Recycling Program one of the largest such programs in the country. CRCL partners with coastal communities and volunteers to place the shell into biodegradable mesh bags and then place the shell in the water. They’ve built five reefs so far, and they're just getting started.
The Beach at UNO, the University’s Research and Technology park, hosts the Gulf’s premier ecosystem for innovation, entrepreneurship, and education in offshore wind energy, which strives to accelerate the growth of the state’s wind energy innovation ecosystem.
EDA awarded a $50 million federal grant to H2theFuture to develop a new energy cluster in South Louisiana spanning the clean hydrogen life cycle for an end-use project at the Port of South Louisiana.
New Energy Center of the U.S. (NEXUS) will be established at The Beach at UNO and serve as the physical and programmatic hub for a range of clean energy initiatives.
UNO will also receive $6 million for a Maritime Green Energy Lab that will serve as a testbed and development center for hydrogen-fueled ships.
HMGPs help communities by implementing mitigation measures in accordance with the Presidential Major Disaster Declaration, to reduce the risk of loss of life and property from future disasters. 75% of funding is Federal, 25% from State
New Orleans & Company is part of Life City’s Zero Waste Challenge for businesses in New Orleans to be committed to more sustainable efforts, such as composting, recycling and eliminating plastics. In only three months in 2022, 65 participating businesses diverted 1,600 tons of waste from the landfill. Find out more about LifeCity and the Love Your City program here.
In an effort to increase sustainability and be more environmentally friendly, many buildings in New Orleans are working towards LEED certification. Find a list of LEED certified buildings in New...
New Orleans is Built to Host meetings and events, and the New Orleans & Company Sales & Marketing team is ready to assist you through the entire planning process.