And, we need your help.

Travel is a main culprit of climate change, accounting for almost 1/3 of world-wide climate damaging greenhouse gas emissions. To calculate and offset the emissions associated with your hotel stay and your air or land travel to Seattle, please visit STI’s carbon calculator.  If you’re interested in integrating a carbon calculator into your own business operations, contact STI.

Addressing the carbon emissions associated with travel is just one way in which the ATTA is greening-up the Summit with STI’s support. Additional Green Summit Initiatives include:

Renewable Energy

• ATTA has committed to offsetting 25 percent of each delegate’s hotel room and air travel related greenhouse gas impacts by supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency projects through STI.  To offset the other 75 percent, please visit STI’s carbon calculator. 
• ATTA, in cooperation with STI, will encourage all delegates, presenters, and ATTA personnel to consider making personal contributions toward carbon offsets, to use public transportation and/or carpool, whenever and wherever viable.
• ATTA has requested the Bell Harbor International Conference Center to purchase “green energy” for all events/conference activities at the venue between October 19-21, 2006 – The ATTA has financially committed to covering the added costs of securing  “green” energy used during the Summit.

Lodging and Transportation

• Despite ATTA having previously pursued dinner and entertainment venues away from the conference center, the ATTA has elected to ensure that all Summit special events following the October 19th Day of Adventure will be held on site to all but eliminate transportation needs during the two days of conference.  
• ATTA recommended to all Summit delegates, speakers and partners accommodations (with negotiated rates) within a two-minute walk of the Bell Harbor International Conference center to significantly reduce delegates’ excess travel needs.
• ATTA is sponsoring shuttle services within the city of Seattle as an option to delegates as an alternative to renting their own vehicles.  The ATTA also will pursue/use rentals that are hybrid/bio fuel/electric vehicles to shuttle delegates.

Waste Management

• All Summit registration activities, including Summit marketing, are being conducted exclusively via the Internet to eliminate printed marketing material and reduce waste.
• Despite ATTA’s previously announced plans to deliver a printed Summit program to approximately 400 Summit attendees ahead of the event and to ship/mail post-Summit a CD-ROM will all Summit proceedings, it has elected to eliminate all major print pieces, and move all previously planned print collateral to an online, delegate-access-only environment.  Exceptions include directional signage at the event and daily one-page (11X17) programs, all of which will use post-consumer recycled paper and soy-based inks.
• ATTA, in cooperation with the event managers of Bell Harbor International Conference center, have stepped up recycling programs throughout the event, to include: visible Recycle bins with signage, using water cisterns (delegates will be given the opportunity to re-use provided water bottles) and reduction of packaged foodstuffs during meals.

For more information, contact ATTA via email or call 360-805-3131.

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