Home

• Power down your house before you leave.
• Take documents needed for the meeting on your devices (laptop, smartphone), not paper (or at least print double sided).
• Pack light.
• Use rechargeable batteries for your devices.

Transit

• Fly coach/economy (more seats per plane).
• Daytime flights have less than half the environmental impact of red-eye flights; fly nonstop rather than connect.
• If you rent a car, get the smallest practical model, or a hybrid one.
• Car/van pool if driving (or otherwise try to choose greener methods of transit).
• Donate to carbon offset funds to offset your trip’s carbon footprint.

Hotel

• Choose a hotel close to the venue, restaurants and public transit, so you can choose greener on the transportation scale.
• Don't buy travel-sized toiletries (at least reuse them); don’t use the hotel-supplied amenities (unless the hotel only replaces them when low, and donates unused items to charitable organisations). Use your own small reusable containers for toiletries, or save small remaining amounts in regular size ones for travel and then recycle those empty containers before you come home. Keep soap in your own container so it's not replaced every day.
• Don't have your room cleaned every day; participate in the hotel’s linen and towel reuse programme.
• Don’t use room service because it uses more resources (and things such as one-use condiments, etc.).
• Turn off lights, unplug device chargers, and re-set HVAC when not in use and when leaving the room.
• Conserve water (as you do at home).
• Recycle materials in appropriate bins.
• Give feedback to the hotel about their green practices (or lack thereof) to create consumer-driven demand for better green practices.
• If your hotel room has a fridge, stock up at local store or farmers’ markets for breakfast and snacks (instead of room service), and save money, too.

On Site

• Don't take paper and plastic from takeout (use the items you brought with you).
• Buy a water bottle filter and drink tap water, or buy larger size bottled water instead to use during your stay.
• Read newspapers online.
• Exchange contact information electronically (email, QR Code, or card sharing app)
• Recycle your badge, programme and all other materials before leaving the meeting.