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On the heels of InterContinental Hotels Group’s (IHG) announcement that it would partner with Clean the World—potentially adding 3,274 properties to Clean the World’s 1,400 hospitality partners—Green Lodging News spoke with Clean the World’s co-founder and CEO, Shawn Seipler, about the impact of the partnership.

Six hundred bucks is not a bad monthly electricity bill for a 15-story, 63-room urban hotel. Granted, The Ivy Hotel has not opened yet, but general manager James Cazares says public space lighting has been burning 24/7.

From an industry penetration standpoint, mattress encasements are still in their 'infancy stage,' says Sandy DiVito, vice president Hospitality & Healthcare for Protect-A-Bed.

If someone were to make a list of the most visionary hotel owners in the United States, Ben Bethel would have to be on it. He may not own and operate the greenest hotel in America The Clarendon Hotel in Phoenix, but he is determined to take giant steps to get his boutique property to that point.

Replacing or complementing the small amenity soaps, shampoos, conditioners, bath gels and lotions that travelers are used to, amenity dispensers can reduce amenity-related costs significantly and dramatically stem the flow of plastic waste to landfills.

Atmosphere Hospitality Management LLC has assumed the management and license contract of a former downtown Rapid City branded hotel and has plans to convert it to the first Adoba Eco Hotel.

'It just happened that way,' says Hema Patel, in regard to her company’s Holiday Inn & Suites Columbia-Airport opening on Earth Day 2010. Planned or not, it certainly was appropriate that the six-story, 181-room hotel opened on a day that recognizes the birth of the modern day environmental movement.

Items that plug into the walls of your hotel using a three-pronged plug can eat up energy in three ways: while operating, while using standby power, or even while they are off. Yes, some electronic devices draw some power even when they are turned off.

Some important project details are currently confidential - the name of the owner and developer, for example - but information released by Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture + Design indicates that a 244-room, 440-foot high hotel is in the pipeline for the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.

The number of hotels asking guests to pay more for rooms with filtered air is on the rise with the continued growth of PURE Solutions’ PURE Room program and the recent introduction of UV Flu Technology’s ABC 'Purity +' Rooms.