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?