能让你成为更好的人的酒店
通过作家莎拉-博尚普（Sarah Beauchamp）的眼睛，看看我们每天是如何拥抱地球日的精髓的。Sarah 定居于纽约，她的作品曾在《Nylon》、《The Daily Beast》、《Vanity Fair》、《The Huffington Post》、《Paste Magazine》和《O，The Oprah Magazine》上发表。
"地球日周末，我访问了迈阿密South Beach 1 号酒店，当时该酒店正在庆祝其取得的众多环保成就。从地板到天花板的玻璃门把我带进了露天大堂，大堂里有种子，你可以把种子带回家，自己种植西红柿、向日葵和欧芹。酒店采用精美的简约风格，老板巴里-斯特恩利希特称之为 "足够的奢华"。整个酒店散发着 Le Labo Santal 温暖的烟熏香味。酒店的 426 间客房都配有有机棉 Keetsa 床垫、100% 有机床单、低能耗灯泡、带三重清水过滤器的水槽，甚至还有瑜伽垫和冥想指南。通过低流量装置和淋浴定时器，酒店每天可节约 500 万加仑的水，并通过雨水收集和回用计划回收利用 23.1 万加仑的水。
After having a drink at the roof-top bar, 18 stories above crystal blue water, I embarked on the Earth Day activities, including sunset yoga by the beach, a bike tour of Miami’s historical and cultural sites, and a tree planting ceremony. I enjoyed fresh calamari with fresno chili, bucatini with sea urchin, and purple cabbage kimchi at their open-air, farm-to-table restaurant Beachcraft, helmed by chef Tom Colicchio. All of the restaurants in the hotel avoid 395 tons of food waste daily by controlling portions—even if I wasn’t able to control mine. It was comforting to know that as a guest I only produced about five pounds of waste, compared to the worldwide average of 15 pounds. The hotel provides a transparency report on their website to give everyone access to their energy-saving statistics, and post-stay surveys have shown that 40 percent of all guests leave the hotel more conscious of their lifestyle practices than when they arrive. What they’re doing with that consciousness is up to them, but at least 1 Hotels is starting a conversation about how we can have the best of both worlds: ultimate luxury and the guilt-free benefits of helping the earth.”
作家 Sarah Beauchamp 的客座博客文章
