Connecting, Convening and Inspiring since 1984
Individuals, companies and organizations to take action
that benefit the whole of the environment.
Connecting, Convening and Inspiring since 1984
Individuals, companies and organizations to take action
that benefit the whole of the environment.
Our Story
JT&A, inc. is a woman-owned small business incorporated in Washington, D.C. in 1984.
We work in a mix of sectors to connect, convene and inspire —
from agriculture and education, mitigation, conservation and restoration of natural resources to healthcare and missile aerospace.
Our Core Values
It all begins with our connection to the environment and each other
- individual responsibility to protect and conserve our air, water, land and species
- listening to and respecting different perspectives
- willingness to work through differences
- respecting and considering the human and economic impact
Our Core Focus
Global and national events on environmental markets focused on sustainable solutions
Enviroscape® education, outreach and communication products.
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Connects & Convenes
Our wide expertise effectively brings people together for impactful discussions and solutions.
JT&A has created, developed and coordinated a multitude of events in the U.S. and abroad for small and large companies, Fortune 500 groups, government agencies, the U.S military and nonprofit organization for as small as 20 to over 1,000.
Our many successes include environmental market events, American Wetlands Month Conferences, forums on Nonpoint Source Pollution, National Watershed Conferences, Pulp & Paper and Paint Stripping conferences, Toxics Release Inventory conference; grain marketing workshops in the Middle East, Asia and South America; support of the Army Materiel Command and more.
JT&A founded powerful, independent and balanced platforms for convening environmental market practitioners to increase investment in environmental solutions with economic and public benefit, both of which now continue under the Alliance for Environmental Markets and Investments, a 501c3 nonprofit.
Both platforms facilitate connection across water, land and air, compliance, voluntary and disclosure-driven markets, industry sectors, and collaboration across regulators and resource agencies, mitigation, restoration and offset providers, clients/impactors, investors academia, tech and data innovators to improve and increase investment in sustainable environmental solutions.
The Environmental Markets Conference (EMC) was founded in 1997 and has become known as the “must attend” annual event for practitioners in environmental markets as it rotates around the U.S. drawing participants from the U.S. and other countries (formerly called the National Mitigation and Environmental Markets Conference, with beginnings as the National Mitigation Banking Conference).
The Global Environmental Markets and Finance Summit (GEMFS) drives progress in private sector solutions for environmental outcomes by connecting, convening, and inspiring high-level leaders of change and implementation for Nature-based Solutions globally every several years. The first successful EMFS event was held in 2019 in Washington, D.C. in cooperation with Forest Trends, followed by another impactful GEMFS 2023 in Denver, CO. Plans are being explored for another GEMFS in another host country.
Inspires
We make the complex simple and easily understood to inspire positive action.
Geared to inspire the citizen audience to make a difference through individual responsibility in the care of the environment, a few of our many successes include the first educational and outreach materials on water pollution, American Wetlands month, Audubon’s America, and our popular interactive EnviroScape models.
EnviroScape®
Hands-On Products for Environmental Education
EnviroScape® is a series of patented visual and hands-on tools for engaging ages 5 to 95 to learn about environmental issues and the role they play as individuals in its prevention.
EnviroScape® effectively communicates our shared responsibility for the environment to people of all ages, languages and cultures.
Used by schools at all levels, corporations, government agencies and organizations throughout the U.S. and globally.
Leadership
Carlene Bahler
President & CEO
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Lura Svestka
Vice President
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Erin Foster
Director of Marketing
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Our Founder
Judith Ferrell Taggart
1931-2015
Judith Taggart established JT&A as a premier environmental outreach and education company in 1984.
Contact Us
Connecting & Convening
Carlene Bahler
703-631-8810, ext. 2 or direct 703-338-6636
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EnviroScape®
Erin Foster
703-631-8810, ext. 1 or direct 703-623-4377
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Operations & All Other Inquiries
Lura Svestka
703-631-8810, ext. 4 or direct 703-338-6626
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