Trip Advisor has come up with a Green Leaders badge for its member properties. Which is great. Except that they want to see independent auditing. All of these eco-auditing services are VERY EXPENSIVE. Looks like a make work project to me...many of their categories do not apply to this premises, and, as usual, they do not have consideration for things that would apply.
Auditing would substantially increase rates, which would lead to non-competitiveness in a tight industry.
Having an environmentally responsible premises is fine, and I have been doing everything I can to keep the air and water clean, and to reduce the environmental footprint. The problem, often, is finding clients who will preserve that mandate. Why does anyone need a half hour hot shower after swimming in clean open water? Why is there more garbage/client year after year? Now we also have the problems of triclosan in anti-bacterial soap and plastic microbeads in soap and toothpaste; with all that I do, clients' choices can have ever increasing negative impact to the work I have done to date.
It takes a personal commitment; it is not something that someone else can do for any individual.
Auditing would substantially increase rates, which would lead to non-competitiveness in a tight industry.
Having an environmentally responsible premises is fine, and I have been doing everything I can to keep the air and water clean, and to reduce the environmental footprint. The problem, often, is finding clients who will preserve that mandate. Why does anyone need a half hour hot shower after swimming in clean open water? Why is there more garbage/client year after year? Now we also have the problems of triclosan in anti-bacterial soap and plastic microbeads in soap and toothpaste; with all that I do, clients' choices can have ever increasing negative impact to the work I have done to date.
It takes a personal commitment; it is not something that someone else can do for any individual.
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