Going Green
SOFITELS GO GREEN WITH WIND
Community Energy will supply wind-generated power to Sofitel Hotels in an agreement with Sofitel parent Accor North America. The deal calls for the nine...
All element Hotels Will Be Built to LEED Standards
element, the Westin-inspired extended-stay brand coming from Starwood, will be "green" all the way through: Starwood requires all of its element hotels to meet standards associated with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED certification. ...
Going Green Is Costly, But It's Worth It
According to Dan Esty, by way of Kermit the Frog, it isn't easy to be green. Speaking at the HOT/Green Conference in Dallas, the Yale law professor recounted both the opportunities and challenges for hotels to adopt meaningful environmental strategies....
Green Behind the Scenes
Floor care chemicals such as cleaners, strippers, restorers and finishes are of particular concern to environmental advocates and hotel properties eager...
WELCOME TO THE GREEN WAVE
Green hotel development is here to stay, say the respondents to a recent Lodging Hospitality survey of hotel owners, developers and managers. The study...
Building Green Momentum
Hotels are finding sustainable design can be affordable and effective Thomas Miller believes that in 20 years all new construction will be built to Leadership...
HOT Confab Tinting Greener
Climate change will be one of the key talking points during the 8th annual Strategic Conference on Hospitality Operations & Technology next month. The...
Green Ogres & Onions
In the first Shrek mega-hit movie, Shrek was trying to explain to his motor-mouthed friend Donkey that ogres are like onions. Donkey didn't quite get...
IH/M&RS Joins Green Bandwagon
The 92nd annual International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show will be colored green, political and technological when it convenes Nov. 10-13 in New York...
Topping It Off, Green Style
Going green is becoming a marketing win for hotels. It also can save money: switching to compact fluorescents can greatly reduce electricity use and the...
seeing Green
Everybody's talking green. Talking, planning, designing, but not building much yet save for a few visionary leaders (California's Gaia Napa Valley hotel...
Cover Your Green Bases
Now that developers in the lodging industry are starting to embrace the green building concept, it's no surprise that auxiliary businesses are jumping...
