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Green Hotel in Vancouver, Canada

• 22 Jul, 2008 • Catégorie: Eco-friendly Hotels

Vancouver is an extra green city, it’s fitting that the Pacific Palisades was an extra green Kimpton Hotel.  In fact, the Hotel Association of Canada gave it a 4 Green Key ECOmmodation rating for its commitment to protecting the environment.

Kimpton strives for environmentally-friendly options in all of their hotels.  Here are some of Kimpton EarthCare’s [...]


A green hotel design in Shanghai : the URBN

• 3 Jul, 2008 • Catégorie: Eco-friendly Hotels

The first hotel reducing and offsetting CO2 opens its doors. Designed by the two owners, Scott Barrack and Jules Kwan, URBN promises to be the start of a new type of empire for the hotel.

The principle: to ensure the neutrality of CO2 emissions by reducing them (through increased efficiency in creating energy, capture gases and [...]


The end of the paper airline tickets

• 3 Jul, 2008 • Catégorie: Green News

Since June 1st, airline tickets are now electronic for travellers of the 240 companies in the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represent 96% of world traffic.
In 2004, a plan called Simplifying the Business was launched, intending to make life easier for everyone. However, the electronic ticket, that United Airlines used since 1994, did not [...]