United Airlines’ commitment to the friendly skies is soaring to new heights. The air carrier has joined the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), whose objective is to accelerate the development and commercialization of aviation biofuels.
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Greening of the U.S. lodging industry is still going strong, concludes the 2012 Lodging Survey by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA). More than 50 thousand U.S. hotel properties were polled in the survey, which has been conducted since 1988.
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| Sacred, Shocking Sustainability | I weave my motorcycle down a narrow, potholed road past exquisitely terraced rice paddies and through a tiny village. This is Bali, but not the Bali of the island’s highly trafficked locales—and I feel deliciously remote from the bustle even though Kuta and Ubud are each only thirty minutes away, […]
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Marriott International’s newest Sustainability Report details investments in its environmental portfolio over the past three years, plus significant contributions to disadvantaged youth around the world to help them gain skills
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Hoteliers around the globe were asked if they have eco-friendly practices in place, and 81 percent of U.S. hotel respondents said they do—scoring only seventh in the world. The top six green hotel destinations
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| New Chef Shines | It’s a lovely evening, and the tourists are trolling the sidewalks of Sonoma around the city’s delightful, leafy square. They’re looking for a place to eat, and so are we. Not that Sonoma is short on dining options, not at all. It has plenty of those. But when you narrow […]
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| The City-State Story | I’m in Dubai, or at least that’s what my brain on red-eye time says. Even sleep starved, I can see that this airport where I now find myself—in the United Arab Emirates’ city-state version of Las Vegas—is swank beyond belief. Flashes of men in elegant white kandura robes, guthra headscarves […]
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Marriott and a U.S. government agency are partnering to develop environmentally sustainable hotels in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
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Best Western International has rolled out a new cleaning program that equips its housekeepers with ultra violet (UV) sterilization wands and UV inspection lights. Housekeepers use the wands to sterilize “high touch” points such as telephones, clocks, light switches, toilet seats
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A new living green roof and a super-energy-efficient heat and power system are the latest eco-upgrades at Hilton New York, the city’s largest hotel.
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