Glimpses: “Summer Rain”
“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.” – Sherman Alexie Thanks to … Continue reading Glimpses: “Summer Rain”
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How Green is Your Hotel?
To find out more about sustainability at hotels, I set up a meeting with Molly Phillips, the Global Responsibility Manager at the 160-room Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. You might be surprised to learn that a luxury hotel has someone directing sustainability efforts–I was. Was it just greenwashing?
But Phillips is an alumnus (’08) of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, where she got her MBA in Sustainable Business. And she’s serious about closing waste streams. Continue reading How Green is Your Hotel?
$80 Seattle Car Tab Fee Unites Greens That Tunnel Split Asunder
Over on Mayor McGinn’s blog, there’s an interesting entry in the post titled “Community support grows for investing in Seattle’s transit future.” A group with environmental leanings has reunited in favor of the $80 vehicle licensing fee, the same people who not so long ago had a public falling out over the “greenery” of the deep-bore tunnel. Continue reading $80 Seattle Car Tab Fee Unites Greens That Tunnel Split Asunder