GLOBE 2010 SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE

Organizers recognize the importance of integrating sustainability considerations into the design and delivery of the GLOBE™ Series and have taken a number of steps to enhance the sustainability performance of GLOBE 2010 including:

• Eliminating the use and provision of delegate bags, resulting in significant decreases in resource consumption and waste generation.
  
  
• Partnering with Hemlock Printers Ltd. to ensure all marketing materials are produced on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, 100% post consumer recycled content paper, resulting in measurable environmental savings including reduced emissions to air, water, and land.
  
  
• Developing a Smart Phone Application which provides participants with a 'paperless program', including the full conference schedule, session descriptions, speaker bios, floorplans, tourism maps, restaurant links, currency converters and much more. Favouring electronic means of communication allows for a reduction in paper consumption as well as waste generation.  
  
  
• Partnering with Offsetters, Canada's first and leading integrated carbon management provider, who is generously providing the carbon offsets to make GLOBE 2010 a carbon neutral event. Since 2005, Offsetters has been helping individuals and organizations, understand, reduce, track and offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
  
  To learn more about the climate impact of your participation in GLOBE 2010, check out the Offsetters online emission calculator below.