HotelChatter - Stories about Gaia Napa Valley http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T00:43:58Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/504 Taking the Eco-Lead: Hotels Jump On Green LEED Certification Bandwagon http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/16/141131/304 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/leed_certifcation.JPG" class="imgborder"/><p>Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the greenest hotel of them all? Heck, is there anyway to gauge a hotel's green bona fides, period? In that regard, help might be on the way.<p> A recent article in the <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/business/26green.html">NYT</a> on the greening of the hotel industry noted that numerous hotels were seeking certification by the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) program. LEED's certification is a rigorous process whereby hotels, and all buildings for that matter, meet strict standards for everything from recycling to water efficiency. <p>Will LEED Certification be to hotels' green efforts what the Good Housekeeping Seal is to, well, gazillions of consumer products? Details after the jump. barbarab 2007-07-16T16:34:35-05:00 Woodstock: Woodstocker Inn Ups the Green Hotel Ante http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/15/114943/777 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/woodstocker_dvd.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/green%20hotels"><b>Green Hotel Trend Alert</b></a><p>Looks like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gaia+Napa+Valley/local/504">Gaia Napa Valley Hotel</a> isn't the only hotel on our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/18/2936/58475/hotels/Best+Green+Hotels+in+the+U.S.+"><b>Best U.S. Green Hotels list</b></a> to offer green educational items. A tipster dropped this tidbit into our inboxes about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Woodstocker+Inn/local/507"><b>Woodstocker Inn</b></a> which we labeled as a Best East Coast Green Hotel.<blockquote><p> The Woodstocker Inn located in Woodstock Vermont, encourages all guests to view the DVD of <i>Who Killed the Electric Car?</i> rather than one of their action packed feature movies. <p>The Inn had their attention brought to this enlightening film by a guest who stayed with them. Her partner had worked on the film and kindly sent them a complimentary copy. Now the DVD is placed in juliana 2007-05-15T12:00:43-05:00 43.4441469 -71.875420 American Canyon: Gaia Hotel Owner Says Missing Bibles Was an 'Oversight' http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/9/143049/8058 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gaia_napa_valley.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gaia+Napa+Valley/local/504"><b>The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel</b></a> made waves <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/3/92726/79917/hotels/Al_Gore_s_Inconvenient_Truth_Replaces_Bibles_in_Green_Hotel">last week</a> for putting copies of Al Gore's book <i>An Inconvenient Truth</i> in its guestrooms and removing the bible from the nightstands. However, the owner Wen-I Chang has said that the hotel's "replacement" of the bible has been overexaggerated.<blockquote><p>Chang, 62, said in a telephone interview that Gaia had not "replaced" the Bible with Gore's book, as has been claimed by some media outlets.<p> Instead, he said, the hotel staff overlooked providing Bibles in their haste to prepare for the official grand opening March 30 and did not intentionally leave them out of the rooms.<p> "I apologize to Christians" who may have been offended, Chang said. "We made an oversight."<p> juliana 2007-05-09T14:34:37-05:00 38.172986 -122.25353 American Canyon: Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' Replaces Bibles in Green Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/3/92726/79917

We just learned that one of the hotels on our Green Hotels list is even greener than we thought. The Gaia Napa Valley in California has replaced the Gideon bibles in the nightstand with a copy of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" (the book), which is placed on the bureau for guests to see right away. Expect other green hotels to do the same, except of course, Marriott.

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]]> juliana 2007-05-03T09:31:38-05:00 38.172986 -122.25353 Best Green Hotels in the U.S. http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/18/2936/58475 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/best_us_green_hotels_2007.jpg" align="right" class="imgborder"> <p> Let's face it, hotels haven't always been model citizens of the Global Village when it comes to protecting Mother Earth. <p>How many times have you walked into a hotel room to find the air conditioner blasting. Those freon fueled vicissitudes that control many hotel room climates can not be good for the environment. Furthermore, in the past, hotel and resort developers have cleared forests and moved rivers to get their golf courses, man made beaches, and monolithic resorts in just the right spot. And have you ever seen how liberally some of the cleaning crew uses aerosol spray? <p> However, what's in the past is in the past, and recently many hotels have become leaders juliana 2007-04-19T14:49:42-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/