These hotels reduce their carbon footprint by donating to renewal energy resources. The owners are very conscience of their damage to the environment and want to cover for their carbon footprint. Lets look into what Alex Beam feels about such efforts:
Lenox Hotel Group: Lenox and a companion hotel invest $11,000 each year in Midwestern wind farms to counterbalance. Wind is a clean, abundant and entirely renewable source of energy and is the fastest growing source of electricity generation in the world today.
Saunders Hotel: The men’s room of one of the hotels, uses waterless urinals, saving 180,000 gallons of water a year. Saunders has more resource-friendly dispensers in the bath rooms. Reusable laundry bags which are thick, bags made from recycled plastic are used. Every where tips on saving energy are freely circulated, such as
Top 10 Tips to Save You $$$ on Gas, Improve Car Performance & Protect Our Environment.
Chicago’s Hotel Raffaello: Though a comfortable hotel it is not at all that green, has much less than its acclaimed technologically advanced set up, when questioned states it has to still get the facilities started.
Fairmont Washington: Has recycling baskets in the rooms, has installed old cathode compact fluorescent lights in hallways and meeting areas to save on energy .
So if you love the environment, the next time you book a hotel do require about its carbon footprint and whether it has done any thing to offset the same.
