Environmental Committee

For JALT2019 we encourage you to be sustainable in your conference-going practices! Here are some tips!
Try to be a green JALTer!
Return your conference badge.
Remember the 4 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, & Refuse. If you don’t need it, don’t take it.
Bring your own travel mug, notebook, pen, chopsticks, and toothbrush.
Eat a vegetarian meal.
Think GREEN.
The Environmental Committee is also looking for people to help monitor trash at the conference. Please consider helping us out during the conference.
The JALT International Conference has been working to improve the environmental performance of the conference in recent years. This includes local sourcing of sustainable products, reducing waste, and increasing recycling. Since some environmental impact is inevitable, especially from transport, we have also been arranging carbon offsets to compensate for our carbon footprint. Once again this year, we are encouraging participants to consider paying an environmental levy of 500 yen or 1000 yen at registration or at the GILE SIG table on-site to help offset the conference’s footprint. After the conference, proceeds will be donated to carbon offset projects that have been selected by the Environmental Committee.
We have recently joined a global drive to make ELT conferences more sustainable. Although in its infancy, ELT Footprint has attracted a wide range of teachers and conference organizers to build a sustainable future for our industry. We encourage you, the conference goers, to join this community and pledge to consider the environment in Nagoya at JALT2019.
Make a Pledge at https://tinyurl.com/JALT2019EcoPledge
Further information from:
JALT Environmental Committee
Global Goals
Myclimate
ELT Footprint