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According to Green Seal, in one week the average hotel uses about the same resources as 100 typical families do in a year. Some hotels try to do better, but how do you find them? Best Green Hotels is compiling a data base of hotels, motels, resorts, lodges, inns, and more that are doing something "green". You can find properties by location, or by the attributes you're looking for. You can also suggest new properties to be added to the data base, and write reviews of the places you stay in. From This is True for 20 March 2005 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie Amazon Price: $16.50 Customer Review: With credit to Terence Corcoran of the Toronto National Post: This book is a shoddy compilation of unproven science scares and junk science gimmicks. Example: In all author Smith's dramatic fretting, he neglects to mention that the "alar...  by Timothy Egan Amazon Price: $17.82 Customer Review: As others have pointed out, this book is written with such a bias politically and ecologically that it suffers in the telling. Those gosh darn robber barons, ancestors of all of today's Republicans, robbing the good citizens of the US from their nat...  Amazon Price: $16.47 Customer Review: Some parts of this book are not needed and spend to much time on inconsequential information, but still a handy guide to pre-1900 tech.  by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns Amazon Price: $31.50 Customer Review: This book is literally a written version of the movies. I really like having it because of the quality images, but would probably be more likely to recommend the abridged CDs. The CDs are great for long car rides and are easier to follow than the mov...  by William McDonough, Michael Braungart Amazon Price: $18.15 Customer Review: This book is a real change in perspective from my usual "we're screwed" environmentalism attitudes. They don't argue for "business as usual" but that eco-products start with the designer yet still depend on consumerism. I agree that grassroots moveme... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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