走进地球月的核心:可持续发展倡导者的激情与目标故事
了解我们保护区中一些才华横溢、鼓舞人心的领导者,让他们分享是什么激发了他们对地球的热爱。
在1 Hotels,保护地球是我们一切工作的核心。我们将对人类和地球的关爱融入我们的身份结构之中。我们旅途中的每一步都植根于可持续发展的理念--从我们的建筑设计到我们菜肴中的当地食材。然而,我们的愿景并不止于此。我们不仅热衷于增强客人的能力,还热衷于增强团队成员的能力,让他们成为环境的守护者。每个度假村都有一位可持续发展倡导者,他是一名团队成员,自愿为度假村提供可持续发展培训并推动新举措的实施。
In honor of Earth Month, we’re speaking to some of our Champions including Chef Ginger Pierce in West Hollywood, Christopher Manalo in Toronto, and Lauren Yanoff-Shapiro in Central Park about the inspirational work they’re doing. Their efforts include everything from innovative waste reduction systems and sustainability-focused guest tours to comprehensive staff training programs, all aimed at fostering environmental stewardship. Together, we leverage our hotels as platforms for change, motivating our community and teams to engage, collaborate, and advance our core mission: to do all the good we can.
姜-皮尔斯,西好莱坞1 HOTEL 烹饪总监
您为什么要成为可持续发展倡导者?
1 Hotels 的可持续发展理念是我加入这个品牌的初衷,也是我在这里工作了近 9 年的重要原因。 食品系统对环境和社区的影响对我来说一直非常重要。 在我职业生涯的早期,我就承诺只在与我的理念相匹配的地方工作,而1 Hotel 正是我可以支持的地方。 我曾对进入酒店行业感到担忧,因为我离开了多年来居住的农场到餐桌的餐厅。我知道酒店是浪费和污染的真正制造者。 从Central Park开始,我们就建立了许多独特的系统,从而减少了生产和包装废物。 与许多志同道合的人在一起,共同探索减少碳影响的创新方法,这让我感到非常兴奋。 随着我们的冠军计划多年来的发展,能够与他人分享这种承诺和热情,我感到非常高兴。 我喜欢看到我们在运营系统、采购选择和社区宣传方面产生的影响。 没有什么比有所作为更让我感到满足了。
您为什么认为可持续发展对个人和1 Hotel 都至关重要?
The feeling that nature creates is unparalleled. Wind rustling through the trees, bees buzzing about, the sun on your skin, the smell of flowers, waves crashing in the distance, the calm of a forest, rivers running across rocks. We promote and celebrate nature in our biophilic design and our beautiful green spaces. Nature is finite and we have to make moves to protect it. We also need to think about the impact our decisions have on our global communities. There are many people in the world without potable water, many added areas that will experience water scarcity very soon. There are cities, states and countries that are being slowly flooded as sea levels rise, likely to be underwater in a matter of years. There are places that are becoming uninhabitably hot. Entire species and native plants are disappearing from existence. It is my belief that reducing waste, building local food systems and shifting our culture of convenience has to be a central focus for all of us in business and our personal lives. If we hope to preserve nature and support our global communities for years to come, we have to continue bringing about positive change.
您能否介绍一下您在工作中推动变革和促进可持续发展的一些具体方法?
Training and empowering the team is the most important way to keep driving change. When you get others involved, the impact is exponential. We have some really amazing sustainability advocates at West Hollywood, especially in the stewarding department. Alberto Lopez has been a top advocate for us, not only assisting in the recording of waste separation, but doing tons of outreach and coming up with so many great ideas to improve our systems. Fostering an environment of creative and critical thinking and problem solving has endless benefits and I work to encourage this in all aspects of our operation. I also love our ‘Pay it Forward’ programming and work hard to get our teams involved and empower my sous chefs to take the lead on initiating. It is so amazing to connect to our local community and we have had so many great events helping many causes. Also diligence and consistency is key. Much of the diversion and waste management requires constant training, retraining, and oversight. Sharing the results through our reports has been very helpful in motivating the team and letting them know our areas of opportunity.
回顾您的经历,您最引以为豪的是1 Hotel 在可持续发展方面取得的哪些成就或采取的哪些举措?
在中央1 Hotel 的早期,我们非常努力地寻找机会,以消除不必要的浪费。 我们创建了许多系统,特别是在外卖和客房餐饮等场所,使用可重复使用的物品,淘汰标准的一次性物品。 我们还制作了宴会菜单,其中包括大量个人精确分量,这有助于减少食物浪费和超量。 我们跟踪超量情况,并努力不断调整我们的数字。 我们与供应商一起努力,减少我们收到的任何物品的包装。 在 1West Hollywood ,我们进行了许多积极的更新,以消除一次性物品。我们实施了可重复使用罐子计划,将我们提供的即拿即用食品过渡到可重复使用罐子。 我们的许多便利设施,如自制的混合果酱,也都装在这些可重复使用的罐子里。 我们将三明治改用可堆肥纸包装,而不是用生物塑料包装,因为生物塑料在我们的废物流中是不可堆肥的。 我们引进了无衬垫有机废物系统,可以储存堆肥,而无需添加塑料衬垫废物。 我们还将燕麦和杏仁牛奶过渡到 Goodmylk,这是一种无需包装的散装产品。 这将每年减少 625 磅利乐包垃圾。 我很荣幸能成为本地农场、再生农场和许多恢复性项目(如 "十亿牡蛎项目")的早期拥护者和倡导者。
展望未来,您对在1 Hotel 内外推进可持续发展有什么愿望和愿景?
在1 Hotels ,我认为我们应该在整个运营过程中不断推动创新和新理念。 随着我们的不断发展,我们的选择将产生更大的影响,无论好坏。 虽然这只是一个很美好的愿望,但我很希望看到一个时代的到来,即在任何随取随用或迷你吧中都不提供一次性物品。 这需要打破常规思维,需要耐用的可重复使用材料。 由于许多标明可回收的物品实际上回收率很低,最终会被填埋,我们的目标应该是消除需要一次性物品的需求和环境。 如果我们的新建筑能有更多固有的可再生能源元素,如太阳能电池板和风力涡轮机墙,那也将是一件令人惊叹的事情。我们的目标应该是在每处房产中都有可再生能源。在选择产品或原料时,耗水量应该是一个主要考虑因素。 许多农作物和牲畜的养殖都需要大量的水,我们在选择菜单工程时应将耗水量考虑在内。如果每家餐厅都有中水和雨水收集系统,那将是一件令人惊叹的事情。我们应该支持本地企业,尤其是小型再生农业。 我对我们的未来充满希望,我期待着作为一个不断发展的品牌,我们能共同创造美好的未来!
克里斯托弗-马纳洛,多伦多1 HOTEL 采购与环境健康安全总监
请介绍一下您在1 Hotels 的职责。
My role is the Director of Purchasing here at 1 Hotel Toronto including being a sustainability champion for the property. I oversee the Purchasing department from sourcing, buying, and facilitating the entire purchasing process from start to finish. As a sustainability champion, my role involves being a resource for the property regarding sustainability from our KPIs, diversion data, consumption data, and quantifying all our sustainability achievements here on property.
是什么激励您加入1 Hotel 成为可持续发展的倡导者?
我曾在内务和管理部门工作,目睹了许多浪费现象。我之所以愿意担任这一职务,是因为我希望能够发挥自己的影响力,参与到改变世界的事业中来。在1 Hotels工作以来,我一直在培训和教育团队,使他们不仅在酒店内,而且在个人生活中更加注重可持续发展,这让我很有成就感。
您如何鼓励和激励他人采用可持续做法?
我发现,以身作则是激励他人采用可持续做法的最有效方法。当团队看到领导者遵循我们的可持续发展实践,并营造出一种遵循这些实践很正常的环境时,他们就会效仿。此外,展示我们的成就和我们自开始以来所取得的进步也是激励团队的好方法,因为他们可以直观地看到所产生的影响。
您能分享一个您领导或参与的成功可持续发展倡议的具体例子吗?
我参与的可持续发展活动之一,就是在酒店内策划 "可持续发展之旅"。通过参观,客人们可以体验到我们的设计意图,以及许多材料是如何被赋予 "第二次生命 "的。从创作这些作品的具体艺术家和供应商,到这些材料的来源,客人们都会沉浸在我们酒店的可持续发展知识中。客人们还可以体验现场制作的零废弃鸡尾酒和甜点,以及它们背后的故事。
您如何了解可持续发展实践的最新发展和创新?
我通过几种方式了解可持续发展的最新进展和创新。无论是通过社交媒体、新闻还是其他物业在可持续发展方面的举措。
在促进酒店可持续发展的过程中,您遇到过哪些挑战,又是如何克服的?
The challenge we face in promoting sustainability is being consistent in our waste management practices. For example, ensuring the team is properly sorting the waste in the correct waste streams when disposing the material. The service industry is very fast paced and it is difficult to have consistency across all venues and kitchens to not have any contamination in the waste bins. However, we have decided to complete more frequent waste audits to combat this issue and address it with kitchens and venues struggling to sort the waste properly. Although we still find minimal contaminants, it has been improving and educating the team has been really well received.
中央公园1 HOTEL 销售与市场总监 lauren yanoff-shapiro
请告诉我们您在1 Hotels 的职责以及您所在的酒店。
我于 2015 年 9 月加入Central Park 1 Hotel ,现任销售与营销总监。
您通过哪些方式与其他部门或团队成员合作,将可持续发展融入酒店运营的各个方面?
We host quarterly sustainability meetings where we talk through new ideas, thoughts, and challenges. The hotel has a sustainability committee, but we open this meeting up to all team members as we find that when more people are involved, more ideas are shared.
如何衡量可持续发展工作的影响?
We work with Foodprint Group to track our waste diversion and Con-Serve to track our energy and water resources. We also have a sustainability action plan created by our VP of Sustainability where hotels input key updates each month. This is a great way to track things like team members and guest engagement. At the end of the year it is amazing to see what all of our hotels have accomplished!
在可持续发展举措方面,您是否遇到过阻力或怀疑,您如何应对?
在1 Hotels ,我最喜欢的一点就是我们对可持续发展mission 的承诺。有阻力是正常的,但我们很幸运,因为我们有真实的例子和故事可以与客户和客人分享。通过面授和在线培训对团队进行教育非常有帮助。
如何在可持续性需求与其他业务优先事项和限制之间取得平衡?
我们很幸运,可持续发展是我们公司的首要任务。我们被鼓励推动想法并做出改变。我所见过的唯一制约因素是建筑的年限或设施的布局。
对于那些热衷于可持续发展并希望在工作场所或社区有所作为的人,你有什么建议?
从小事做起,小事情大不同。与酒店内外的其他人谈论可持续发展非常重要。我从家人和朋友那里得到了很多支持和想法。
