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Santa Cruz Luxury Hotel Green Tip
Hang the "Don't Bother Us" sign on the door.
Or simply call housekeeping and inform them you won't want their services during your stay. Having your Santa Cruz room cleaned takes more resources than you may guess. Sheets and towels are washed requiring water, detergent, electricity, and gas. Keep your bath area clean on your own and trim the requirement for use of toxic chemicals and cleaning solvents. It consumes electric power to clean up the dirt. Half used shampoo, conditioner, and lotions ultimately add tons of plastic to our non-biodegradable waste. Cleaning your suite every day is most likely not a necessity and you will be doing your part to preserve natural resources when you don't utilize room service each day.
Santa Cruz Lodging and how they rate for Eco-Friendliness.
Santa Cruz has 33 hotels listed in the iStayGreen directory of which 3 are listed as environmentally friendly lodging. Currently 3 properties have completed the online Environmental Audit and been awarded the Green Eco-Leaf Rating.
At this time, iStayGreen.org has not yet been informed as to the eco friendliness of 30 of the hotels in Santa Cruz and have requested that these hotels in Santa Cruz disclose to us their sustainability status. In total CA has 3617 lodging properties and a total of 448 properties are represented as environmentally friendly. 249 Lodging facilities working hard to better our environment have achieved the Green Eco-Leaf Rating. Included in the properties striving towards a more sustainable travel future are Santa Cruz hotels, Santa Cruz resorts, Santa Cruz bed & breakfasts, and Santa Cruz extended stay accommodations.
If you're planning to stay in Santa Cruz, or take a Santa Cruz vacation, consider doing the environment a favor and check first for the availability of environmentally friendly rated hotels & motels.
A good share of the time we have found eco-friendly Santa Cruz CA lodging to be comparatively priced to other available accommodations in the area.
With more hotels guests seeking environmentlly friendly options, we will see an increase in properties responding to the dictates of their customers and greening up their operations.
More Santa Cruz Resorts Green Tips
Research a Green or Eco-Friendly Accommodation option.
Choosing a low-impact place to stay isn't just greener, it can be often cheaper. There are many organizations that evaluate the environmental initiatives in-place at lodging properties. In the U.S. several states and municipalities have designed certification programs. The result is similar internationally with many countries offering certification ratings. Search the city you're traveling to and find out if there is a country or state program for "Green" lodging. You will also find numerous great online listings of environmentally friendly accommodations. Naturally, when searching for a place to stay in Santa Cruz our fave is iStayGreen.org
Walk - bike - ride the public system and don't rent.
Look to become aware of numerous forms of public transit to move you from Point A to Point B. There are generally several choices for the eco friendly traveler that leaves the car at the rental lot, including alternatives like subway, taxi, shuttle service, light rail and others. When downtown parking can be $25 a day and more on top of the cost of the rental, plus add valet tips and public transportation becomes a pretty nice alternative. Why not walk when virtually all of what you need is likely close to your Santa Cruz hotel. If the distance is below 10 miles take a bike. Sample one of the alternatives above and be a superior eco-citizen.
There are good alternatives to travel.
There are a multitude of different online meeting solutions that let video conference and sharing of documents with both presenters and delegates. These alternatives are so good that you can conduct business from your desk rather than traveling. When face to face meetings to Santa Cruz are requisite, then of course you'll need to make the trip. Still, if every business could replace some flights with an online meeting things would begin looking up for our collective environment.
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