Best new eco-getaways plant trees in the Amazon

Friday, 28 Feb, 2008 0

The Lodge at Sun Ranch in Cameron, Mont., known for allowing the hunting of free-range organic elk, was named in Outside Magazine’s March issue as one of the US’s  â€œbest new eco-getaways.”

The magazine says the lodge plants 10 trees in the Amazon for every guest.

Others cited as among the best:

  • The new Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, N.C. has solar panels that heat 60% of the hotel’s water, and its elevator captures electricity produced by the brakes as the car descends.

  • The Orchard Garden Hotel in San Francisco, which was built from concrete made from fly ash, a byproduct of coal power plants, with key cards that turn off the heat when you leave the room.

  • The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa, said to be the only LEED gold-certified hotel in the U.S., where a copy of Al Gore’s eco-manifest An Inconvenient Truth is kept in every room along with the Holy Bible and a Buddhist bible.

Report by David Wilkening



 

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