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Overland Park Luxury Hotel Green Tip
Stick the "Do not Disturb" sign on your door.
Or simply telephone housekeeping and inform them you won't want their services during your stay. When your Overland Park suite is tidied up it takes substantial resources. It takes water, electricity, detergent and gas to clean the sheets and towels. The bathroom areas are often cleaned with chemicals. Sweeping the carpet requires energy. Minimally used shampoo, conditioner, and lotions end up adding tons of plastic to our dumps. Consider if your hotel room really needs cleaning; you'll probably find its not needed and you can't help preserve the environment.
Overland Park Places to Stay and how they rate for Eco-Friendliness.
In Overland Park there are 35 properties where the green friendliness unknown and they have not yet told us about their environmental efforts. In the state of KS there are a total of 376 lodging properties listed in the iStayGreen.org directory of which 4 are represented as eco-friendly. 1 Properties working hard to better our environment have been awarded the Green Eco-Leaf Rating. Various accommodations are heading toward a "Green" future in travel including Overland Park extended stay hotels, bed & breakfasts, luxury hotels, and Overland Park resorts.
Since there are no eco-friendly rated lodging properties listed in Overland Park, we would like to ask you a favor, please invite the property you ultimately book at to reach iStayGreen.org at info@istaygreen.org and complete our online environmental review.
Whenever researching your Overland Park vacation, or travel to Overland Park we would ask you, before you book, to check rates and availability of "Green" rated lodging.
As lodging guests demand environmental transparency from the properties they visit, those properties will ultimately respond, thereby enabling you, the consumer, to be able to make eco-informed choices.
More Overland Park Resorts Green Tips
Is the business trip in reality needed?
You'll find several different online meeting solutions that allow video conference and you the ability to share and edit documents with both presenters and delegates. These alternatives are so good that you can do business from your desk rather than flying. Of course there will be occasions when you simply must go to Overland Park and see the person. However, if every business could exchange some flights with an internet meeting things would start looking up for our shared environment.
Consider a Green or Eco-Friendly Lodging alternate.
Choosing a low-impact property is not only greener, you'll find it often less expensive. You can now find many assessment and certification programs evaluating the environmental measures of establishments. In the U.S. many cities and states have created certification guidelines. This is also the case internationally with allot of countries offering certification ratings. Search where you'll be staying and determine if there is a country or state program for eco-friendly lodging. Research where you're going in one of the many excellent "Green" directories on the Internet. As you would expect, when searching for a place to stay in Overland Park our front-runner is iStayGreen.org
Don't lone it in a rental car - build friends on public transit.
In most key cities public transportation is fairly good, particularly if you're near the larger population centers. To make the leading metro areas more pedestrian favorable most have developed a good grid of light rail, elevated rail, shuttle, bus, train, trolley, subway and taxi services. When downtown parking can be $25 a day and more in addition to the cost of the rental, plus add valet tips and public transportation becomes a pretty nice substitute. When staying at one of the downtown Overland Park hotels you most probably will find what you need within walking distance. Most downtown areas nowadays provide bike rentals as a great way to cover the city. Not only will you depress carbon emissions but you'll get good exercise in the process.
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