Hotels have been struggling with a green agenda.
There are those bathroom cards saying that linens will not be washed unless requested. These are truly early efforts in the industry. The hotel industry has been largely slammed for greenwashing (no pun intended). It is making some better moves like championing waste management programs, sourcing renewable energy, and leading some ecological preservation. Some cool examples include:
- The Ibis Porte de Clichy has a façade covered in photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight into electricity
- San Francisco's Orchard Garden Hotel rooms have the city's first door-key-card controlled electricity system—remove your card when you leave and the whole room automatically "turns off" (something that Europe has had for some time)
- Hotel Triton has decorated a room on each floor using environmentally safe paints, furniture created from salvaged forest-fire wood, and organic hemp towels and sheets
It also appears that a new player is to make its presence known. Starwood Hotels who brought you the W format is now planning One Hotels which will be upscale and green. Do you have any suggestions for Starwood on how to devise a truly green hotel?
Posted on February 18, 2008 9:35 PM
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David Edgar
Reccomend hotels provide seperate waste containers for recycling vs. trash, or proactivly sort room trash at time of room servicing to direct recyclables aproprately.
Keep me posted
Posted by David Edgar | February 28, 2008 5:09 PM
dee
How about they stop building hotels altogether? Or if they absolutely have to, paint them green as a reminder to our numbered days here on the not so green earth.
Posted by dee | March 3, 2008 2:52 AM