Museums & Attractions
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Nashville, Tenn.’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is updating its core exhibition, Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music, to be completed in May 2010. From Waylon Jennings to Taylor Swift, the exhibit will be reinvigorated with new themes, content, video, audio and a new look. The main focus will begin around 1965 and move through five decades, including country’s collision with mainstream American culture from roughly 1965 to 1971; the new directions of the 1970s, including country rock and the rise of Southern rock; and the 1980s new generation of major stars like George Strait, Reba McEntire and the Judds. The exhibit will also cover the boom years of the 1990s, when the likes of Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Alan Jackson ruled the charts, and also feature exhibits on the latest trends. For more information, call 615.416.2001 or visit www.countrymusichalloffame.org.
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For groups with a sense of adventure, the Wired Zip Line Challenge Course offers team-building options on one of the tallest and longest zip-line challenge courses in Texas. Located just outside of the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in Canton, the course soars above the east Texas meadows, with over 20 acres bordering the woods. All participants are trained in technique before they launch. The course is suitable for any age. For more information, call 903.567.2681 or visit. www.ziptheusa.com.
Kudos
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Committed to helping customers green their meetings, Virginia’s Raleigh Convention Center attained the Silver LEED certification. During the design phase, the design team, the construction management team and city staff began identifying cost-effective measures that earned the project the requisite point totals. One such cost-saving effort included coordinating the design of the electrical, air-conditioning, heating and building envelope systems to make the center 30 percent more energy efficient than a normal building would be. Other features included elements aimed at reducing water usage by 20 percent, committing the project to recycling at least 50 percent of the construction waste and purchasing at least 20 percent of the building materials locally. For more information, call 919.996.8500 or visit www.raleighconvention.com.
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Virginia’s Lansdowne Resort was presented with the EcoCEO Award, sponsored by SmartCEO magazine. The EcoCEO Award recognizes environmental excellence in business and honors companies that are catalysts for change. In the three award categories—facilitators, implementers and innovators—Lansdowne received the winning award in the implementer category by indentifying its green projects, showing energy-saving results and showing future plans to sign the International Association of Conference Center’s (IACC) Code of Sustainability. Lansdowne is currently Virginia Green Certified and its next goal is to be recognized with the Green Star by the IACC. The core green activities include recycling, waste reduction, water efficiency, energy conservation and green plantings and maintenance. For more information, call 703.729.8400 or visit www.lansdowneresort.com.