{"id":372,"date":"2022-04-19T13:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/?page_id=372"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:50:33","slug":"sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/location\/sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We ask that all attendees of the 70th Annual International Conference of WDA help us uphold principles of environmental sustainability outlined in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifedisease.org\/PersonifyEbusiness\/Portals\/0\/About%20Us\/Charter%20of%20Values_Web.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifedisease.org\/PersonifyEbusiness\/Portals\/0\/About%20Us\/Charter%20of%20Values_Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WDA&#8217;s Charter of Values<\/a>. The conference planning committee is reviewing each day&#8217;s activities to help achieve a &#8220;Green Event&#8221; certification through the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.wisc.edu\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sustainability.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone registered for the conference should bring their own re-useable mug for refreshments &#8211; better yet, bring your mug from the Lake Tahoe meeting! This will serve as your coffee\/beer\/wine\/water drinking vessel all week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the event information will be available in electronic format for each of use and to minimize printed materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recycling and composting options will be front and center in all venues; please use them whenever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live in the Midwest? Consider taking a bus to Madison instead of flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madison is a great walking and biking city. The Concourse Hotel maintains a shuttle that can be used to get to downtown from the Madison airport; no need to rent a car. Madison has an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.bcycle.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/madison.bcycle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bike share program<\/a>; there is a station around the corner from the conference hotel and several throughout the university campus. We also encourage use of public transportation and ridesharing whenever possible in the Madison area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are planning a contribution or hands-on activity that WDA will contribute to with a goal of achieving a carbon offset or local community environmental justice objective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ask that all attendees of the 70th Annual International Conference of WDA help us uphold principles of environmental sustainability outlined in WDA&#8217;s Charter of Values. The conference planning committee is reviewing each day&#8217;s activities to help achieve a &#8220;Green Event&#8221; certification through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Sustainability. Everyone registered for the conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-372","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372\/revisions\/373"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/wda2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}