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The Oregon Business Travel Association is committed to supporting and facilitating sustainable practices to help ensure less impact to the environment.
The NBTA CSR Committee has established an annual award to recognize innovative and significant initiatives implemented by a company which recognizes the mission and objectives of the NBTA CSR Committee.
Click the image left for more information and go to click here for directions on how to enter to win this award!
Do you have ideas and/or suggestions of what you would like to see here? Let us know! Contact Maureen Kallman or Stacey Turner with your ideas.
For now check out our new Sustainability topic in our forums section. Click here to be taken directly there, or go under the Members Only tab, then under Forums.
OBTA is very proud to be the first Business Travel Association to have a Sustainability Director! Thank you Maureen Kallman from Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects for taking on this important role. If you have any suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact her at maureen.kallman@zgf.com.
Check out the National Business Travel Association's Corporate Social Responsibility page to see what NBTA is doing to be sustainable. |
June Meeting Sustainability Trivia:
Q: Americans buy and throw away 500 million every year?
A: Cigarette Lighters
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May Meeting Sustainability Trivia:
Q: The amount of tress required to make 1 ton of office paper is ?
A: 24
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April Meeting Sustainability Trivia:
Q: Your house causes 2 times the green house gas emissions of a car. True or false?
A: True
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March Meeting Sustainability Trivia:
Q: Every year, we make enough plastic film to shrink wrap what US State?
A: Texas
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February Meeting Sustainability Trivia:
Q: One billion trees are cut down each year to make what?
A: Disposable Diapers!
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January Meeting Sustainability Trivia:
Q: If everyone in America changed one light in their house to a fluorescent bulb, how many additional houses could be powered?
A: 3 million! |
