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The animal lovers at Kimpton Hotels love not only animals, but the whole natural world. So they are pretty proud to announce that they're the first chain to introduce sustainable products for their in-room spa treatments. Sure, it's not as cool as accommodating sloths, but for all of you who have no pet sloth, perhaps you can enjoy the new spa products instead.
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by amandak
Greenhouse 26, we hardly knew ye. New York's got a new "green" boutique hotel gunning for environmentally friendly LEED certification: 50 West Street.
The 65-story new build, set to debut in 2011, will recycle its demolition waste and use sustainable and renewable materials to construct its green roof, water-efficient plumbing fixtures, automated blinds and energy control systems. The property will have 280 residential units and 155 hotel rooms, all of which will have energy efficient glass façades to make use of daylight while also filtering out those oh-so-harmful UV rays.
The groundbreaking took place Friday--complete with an organic breakfast and blessings by a reverend and a rabbi, according to The Observer--so it looks as though 50 West Street has a much better chance of coming to fruition than Greenhouse 26, if for no other reason than God willing it so.
[Photo: The New York Observer]
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by jennm
Could there BE any more hotel opening news today?
Conde Nast Traveler has the scoop on a new eco-hotel opening up July 1 in the holy land of all things eco, San Francisco. Actually The Cavallo Point Hotel is just over the Golden Gate Bridge in old the Fort Baker military base in Sausalito. But it's a pretty green thing.
68 old officers' quarters have been transformed into luxury hotel digs and 74 more have been created nearby in solar-paneled buildings of course. More green stuff includes:
Bamboo furnishings and ceilings, organic bedding and linens, 25% recycled (and 100% recyclable) carpets, blue jean insulation, and the like. The open spaces around the hotel are being restored with 30,000 native plants raised from seeds found on adjacent parklands, and the lodge supports the new Institute at the Golden Gate, which will be in charge of the site's environmental programming -- nonprofits and other green organizations qualify for a special Green Rate.
Right now the hotel is offering special package rates to Conde Nast Traveler readers as well as a special intro rate for Bay Area locals of $150 and up a night. Rack rates start at $275 a night.
[Photo: Kodiak Greenwood/CNTraveler]
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by juliana
So two days ago we briefly reported how Starwood Capital and Marine Drive Properties is developing the 1 Hotel & Residences Vancouver Island in British Columbia (that would be Canada), within the Wyndansea development, but it took a day for us to realize just how cool this 1 Hotel location is.
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by AndrewC
For some, saving the earth is about eating local, planting a tree, getting your hands dirty. For others, it's a dirty martini.
Two of the Manhattan Kimpton Hotels---70 park avenue hotel and The Muse--are doing an eco-friendly promotion that mixes earth and olives (no, not in the same glass!)
If you order a Dirty Eco-Tini at either hotel, they will kick back a percentage to the non-profit Trust for Public Land.
The Trust believes in the power of places like the neighborhood pocket park, of spaces that serve as urban lungs for fresh-air kids, and everyone who has ever sought shade under a leafy tree-lined street in the hot summer. They even preserve wildlife habitats, rural land, and playgrounds and community gardens in low-income neighborhoods.
So do your part and sip a Dirty Eco-Tini -- it's got organic olive juice, olives, and a healthy splash of Square One Organic Vodka. The price tag is $16, a little high, but remember that now through July, the entire cost of the drink goes right back to the Trust.
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by annie0007
We knew there was something fun in Wyoming! Get this: a cool hotel has popped up in Cody, Wyoming and features six themed suites. Among them: Annie Oakley and Lewis & Clarke.
The Cody, whose walls are made with lumber taken from planks that once surrounded Old Faithful, is also hardcore eco-conscious. Says the owner:
We have no paper products in the hotel except for tissue paper and that is biodegradable. Our breakfast has cloth napkins, china, and glass wear. So we're washing a lot of dishes.
You know, we might consider going totally paperless if we were to stay in the Lewis and Clark room. When in Rome, do as the Romans do ... and when in a themed room, you might as well apply the theme to your -- okay, we're done.
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Jennifer Merritt takes a tree-hugger trip. Enjoy.
Lately I've been irritating my editor on purpose, in the hopes that she'll get really annoyed and tell me to go climb a tree, to which I'll say, "Assignment time!" break out the company card and head down to Tree House Lodge in Costa Rica, a 10-acre oceanfront property on Punta Uva beach.
Because I'm a good employee, I'd eschew the more costly seven-day "Relaxing" package for the three-day one, which includes airport transfers, accommodation, a beachside massage, daily yoga classes on the beach and one afternoon energy balance, which--even though I'm not quite sure what that means--has me intrigued.
The package is $2,070 for two people and since the only other person I can think of who would be into such a thing is my hippie-dippy mom, I guess she gets to come along.
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We know those Scandinavians are a pretty innovative bunch, so it's not surprising that the claim to have the world's first 100% carbon neutral hotel chain comes out of Denmark. The chain is small, though, which makes it easier--just four hotels under the Brochner Hotel brand, including Ibsens Hotel, Hotel Kong Arthur and Hotel Danmark, all in Copenhagen.
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