新しいアースデイ

この困難な時期から得た最も貴重な教訓のひとつは、私たちには変化する能力があるということだ。変化には犠牲や価値観の転換、反省が必要です。1 Hotels は、私たちを取り巻く世界に変化をもたらし、会話を喚起するプラットフォームでありたいと考えています。

50年前の今日、1970年4月22日、最初のアースデイが開催され、現代の環境保護運動が始まった。この日、2000万人のアメリカ人が集まり、公害や野生生物の絶滅などの問題に立ち向かった。その年の終わりまでに、米国は環境保護庁を設立し、大気浄化法、水質浄化法、絶滅危惧種法を成立させた。2016年、国連はParis 協定に署名する日としてアースデイを選んだ。地球最大の市民イベントとして認知されているアースデイは、現在193カ国以上で祝われている。

今年、私たちは直接お祝いをすることはできないかもしれませんが、気候変動の危機に対応するために、自宅から小さな変化を起こすことは十分可能です。未来の世代のために環境を守るために、愛と意図をもって前進するために、私たちはどのように持続可能性を受け入れることができるのか、静止し、考える時間を持つことをお願いします。

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.

アースデイ50年の歩みに乾杯！