13 August 2007

Carbon Neutral Hotels

News from the Indie that only 4 per cent of British holidaymakers would choose to book a five-star hotel over a four-star establishment which is sustainably run.

Just like any other business, there are factors such as efficient lighting and heating, renewable energy, or community support and involvement. But, since they are hotels, you would also include home-grown vegetables, hire bikes, fair-trade sugar for your fair trade coffee, and a local and organic full English.

Yorkshire has a scheme to encourage hotels, B&Bs and cafes to source more regional produce called the "Deliciouslyorkshire Breakfast" where 5 ingredients or more have to be regionally sourced.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I applaud your efforts regarding local supply. Please also note that depending on how you source, a local supplier who doesn't care about the environment may be worse than a concerned distant supplier. Our wine estate (Backsberg - Western Cape, South Africa) is not only carbon neutral but has also compensated for any carbon emissions used in the transportation of our wine all the way to our customers. Our distributor in the U.K. Richmond Wine Agencies is also looking into ways of becoming carbon neutral. John Spiers C.E.O.Backsberg Estate Cellars. For more info contact myself john@backsberg.co.za or Derek@richmondwineagencies.com

scott redding said...

You can read some more about their winery here ....

Anonymous said...

Interesting to know.