Happy World Environment Day! This year’s slogan is Think.Eat.Save., UNEP’s anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foodprint. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. This is equivalent […]
We couldn’t agree more! That is why Petz decided to not produce more things but instead design for the service industry. The first service. a hotel (or non-hotel!).
Excellent furniture for short stay spaces: eco-friendly (100% renewable, 100% biodegradable, flat-pack), easy maintenance, practical and beautiful. leibal Matej
Not everything needs to be local all the time. Here is the amazing PET Lamp Project all the way from Colombia, dealing with the problem of plastic waste, the disappearing of an ancient artisan textile craft and refugees from the guerilla war, […]
The Alto Hotel in Melbourne is Australia’s first carbon neutral hotel. Read here about their other environmental initiatives.
We like designer Seung-Yong Song’s objects and believe it’s not for nothing that he won the 2013 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award. More information on Dezeen and diarioDESIGN (in spanish).
This morning, CETT Alumni and the Club de Biología y Biotecnología de Alumni UB organised a round table discussion around “virus, and climate change, and how it affects tourism”. Here we learned about One Health, “the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines — working locally, […]
Last week Petz Scholtus took part in the conference “How to mitigate the impact of mass tourism in Barcelona?” by Upsocial. Juan Manuel Ribera, tourism consultant, explained that “tourism is not one thing but the sum of many things like gastronomy transportation, health care, […]
TripAdvisor launched the GreenLeaders Program to help eco business get the recognition they deserve and travellers plan more responsible trips. So far this is only for US-based hotels and B&Bs but we hope it will be global soon. Check TripAdvisor’s survey guide […]
Very cool space-saving bike parking for small (but high) spaces! As seen by Mikael Colville-Andersen (Copenhagenize) at the W Hotel in San Francisco. Mikael says: It’s like a museum the way they hang them up on the wall like that. You ask […]
Here some ideas to save energy: An Overview of Energy Use and Energy Efficiency Opportunities, and also check out Energy Star’s guidelines for hotels.
Imagine a hotel that offers a culinary experience to guests by growing and cooking its food onsite in the city. This is the idea behind The Allotment by Dean Moran for the Tablet Rethink Hotels competition.
STOP THE WATER WHILE USING ME are very cool refillable, all natural bodycare products for hotels. They say: The average hotel guest uses up to 1,000 litres of water a day, or around ten times more than the average household, exceeding the […]
This, and a very good bed, could probably be enough furniture for a hotel room.
Not yellow but green! Barcelona has launched its own fleet of eco-friendly taxis. Taxi Ecològic use only hybrid vehicles, that are therefore much less polluting and silent. Other cool features: ionised air, phone chargers, free wifi, credit card payment and easy billing […]
