Sustainability
We are committed to creating a more environmentally sustainable conference experience.
Here's our ambitious objective: To develop and implement strategies for the 2023 Gathering Partners conference that create baseline data and initiate intentional, sustainable conference practices. Ultimately, we hope to reduce the negative carbon and climate change impacts of this event. Through the conference planning process and the conference itself, we’ll ask for your help, participation and feedback to achieve this ambitious goal.
Read more about sustainability at the Arb.
How you can help
Bring your own reusable water bottle
Choose water as your beverage
Carpool or find other carbon-friendly transportation. Or bike to the Arb, there are several bike trails that connect to the Arb entrance and you can bike within the Arb on the 3-mile drive.
Rethink your needs and waste. Use on-site compost and recycle containers
Reuse towels and bedding in the hotel room, bring your own toiletries
Ask environmental sustainability questions as a consumer
Tell us how we can do better in the conference evaluation
Volunteer to help with sustainability at future Extension events