La Journée de la Terre autrement

L'une des leçons les plus précieuses à tirer de cette période difficile est que nous sommes capables de changer. Le changement peut être difficile ; il exige des sacrifices, un changement de valeurs et de la réflexion. Chez 1 Hotels, nous aspirons à être une plateforme pour susciter des conversations et transformer le monde qui nous entoure.

Il y a cinquante ans aujourd'hui, le 22 avril 1970, était célébrée la première Journée de la Terre, qui a lancé le mouvement environnemental moderne. Elle a rassemblé 20 millions d'Américains pour lutter contre des causes telles que la pollution et l'extinction de la faune et de la flore. À la fin de cette année-là, les États-Unis ont créé l'Agence de protection de l'environnement et adopté les lois sur la pureté de l'air, la propreté de l'eau et les espèces menacées. En 2016, les Nations unies ont choisi la Journée de la Terre pour signer l'accord de Paris sur le climat. Reconnue comme le plus grand événement civique de la planète, la Journée de la Terre est aujourd'hui célébrée dans plus de 193 pays.

Cette année, même si nous ne sommes pas en mesure de célébrer l'événement en personne, nous sommes tout à fait capables de faire de petits changements à la maison pour faire face à la crise climatique. Nous vous demandons de prendre le temps de vous arrêter et de réfléchir à la manière dont nous pouvons adopter la durabilité pour de bon afin d'aller de l'avant avec amour et intention, et de sauvegarder notre environnement pour les générations futures.

For you, our 1 Hotels family, we’ve put together a list of easy ways to honor the Earth and celebrate at home:

1. Attend the Future Coalition’s Earth Day Live, three days of online action including teach-ins, musical performances, divestment, and more. Find out more here.
2. Support your favorite environmental organization by amplifying their message on your social media pages. Retweet, post to your Instagram story, or share with your Facebook friends. One of our favorites is the NRDC.
3. Learn something new. Read the book the sparked the environmental movement, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
4. Watch an environmental documentary. A few that we’ve screened are The Diamonds of Botswana, Ay Mariposa, and Picture of His Life.
5. Unwind and meditate. Staying inside can be tough. Take seven minutes to connect with nature in your mind and honor the planet. Try this guided meditation session, and sign up to enjoy a complimentary month of Unplug Meditation here. Have a yard, rooftop, or balcony? Enjoy outside and be at one with Mother Earth.
6. Reduce your food waste AND your trips to the grocery store. Shop with a list, plan meals in advance, freeze what you can before food goes bad, and eat your leftovers. Use scraps to top salads or make homemade broths, and embrace “ugly” produce that usually gets tossed out. Skip the store all together with Imperfect Foods.
7. Shop smart. Research brands before making online purchases to ensure that you’re supporting sustainable companies. Apps like Good on You do the research for you and give ethical brand ratings. Some of our sustainable favorites are S’well, Hu Kitchen, Bamford (found in our spas!), and Neu Nomads.
8. Power your home with purpose. Call your utility company and switch to green power, meaning it will be generated with clean sources like wind or solar or buys renewable energy certificates from other clean energy providers.
9. Implement a system in your home for waste and recyclables. If you haven’t yet, label separate bins to make it easy. We recycle at all 1 Hotels properties.
10. Buy in bulk to reduce packaging waste and minimize transportation pollution. You may need to do some storing prep to store your purchases - we recommend large jars for storing dry goods like nuts or trail mix.
11. Start your own organic vegetable garden inside or in your own backyard. We have an on-site organic garden at 1 Hotel West Hollywood that we use for delicious farm-to-table dishes.
12. Compost food scraps and yard waste and see your garden grow. Keep these materials out of landfills and turn them into your own plant food. We compost at 1 Hotel West Hollywood, and you can get started with this at-home composter.
13. Go plastic free. Use reusable water bottles and straws. Switch to soap bars and solid shampoo and conditioner bars to reduce bathroom waste. Store food in metal or glass containers or in reusable storage bags like Stashers. At 1 Hotels, we limit the use of single-use plastic wherever possible.
14. Try Meatless Mondays. In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emission, try eating plant-based meals once a week. Here is a recipe from Chris Crary, Executive Chef of 1 Kitchen and 1 Hotel West Hollywood.

Nous espérons que la Journée de la Terre progressera encore pendant 50 ans !