ASES is committed to holding a sustainable annual conference.
With your help, ASES will leave the smallest possible environmental footprint in San Diego.
Green Tags
Green Tags are created when solar or other renewable energy is substituted for traditional power. Green Tags represent the real savings in carbon dioxide and other pollutants that occur when green power replaces burning fossil fuel.
ASES acquires enough Green Tags to offset all of the electricity and fuel used at the National Solar Conference, including energy used at the Resort and Convention Center for the meetings, sessions, trade show and events and the electricity used by our attendees staying at the Town and Country.
This year, we purchased a total of 122, 100% Solar green tags, for a total of 122,000 kWh of electricity, and offsetting 157,990 pounds of green-house gas emissions. We purchased the tags from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. For more information about B-E-F's green tags, go to their Green Tags webpage >>
In addition, Lakeland Electric (Lakeland, FL) has generously donated their combination PV and Solar Hot Water green tags to offset the emissions from the bus transportation used for the tours and Pirate Party.
Other Institutional Green Practices
- We communicate mainly via e-mail with our presenters and our attendees.
- We make it easy for you to register on-line.
- We selected a venue and a hotel that are easy to get to on public transportation. No need to rent a car for SOLAR 2008!
- We selected a hotel which utilizes green housekeeping practices - conducting linen and towel changes less often or by request.
- We publish all of the information about our conference on our website.
- We are offering our exhibitors a paperless lead tracking system.
- We will provide water coolers rather than bottled water for our attendees, and everyone will get their own reusable bottle.
- We provide the conference proceedings on a CD-ROM rather than in paper format.
- We carefully analyze our food usage from past years to better estimate our usage this year - less waste and helps us keep the costs down.
