We had heard a lot about the LEED Gold Gaia hotel in American Canyon (even we had to look up American Canyon and we live in San Fran) but we hadn’t actually visited it. Yes, we can only tell so much from a press release. The hotel, rather unassuming, sits right off busy Highway 29 […]
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Going LEED Gold at the Gaia Hotel
Published by Keith January 18th, 2008 in Eco Hotels, Environment, Green Building, Green Hotels, Photovoltaic Panels and Solar panels. 0 CommentsBack to School - The Green Way
Published by Keith November 8th, 2007 in Bamboo, Green Building, Green Hotels, Health, Orchard Garden Hotel and San Francisco. 1 CommentSchool was never like this when we were kids. Recycled this, renewable that. We certainly weren’t phi beta kappas but the Mission based Children’s Day School gets an A- for its recent Green additions. We expect it to bump that grade to a full fledged A when some of the other Green items come on […]
From the Garden to the Table
Published by Keith October 5th, 2007 in Eco Hotels, Foundations, Green Hotels, Health, Money, Organic Food and San Francisco. 0 CommentsIt was like the perfect storm. The combination of a fundraiser for a Green sustainable non profit organization (From the Garden to the Table), tasty food and organic cocktails (Square One organic vodka, 4 Copas organic tequila) in a LEED certified location (Orchard Garden Hotel) and even Green minded celebrities (David Alan Grier) to boot.
Both […]
Grapes meet Green Gaia Hotel
Published by Keith April 21st, 2007 in Environment, Green Hotels, Photovoltaic Panels and Solar panels. 0 CommentsOften when hotels display their “greenness” it comes in the form of bathroom notices about reusing towels to save water. That’s child’s play for the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel which reaches higher than just low flow shower heads and fancy recycling bins. The recently opened Gaia, “Mother Earth” in Greek mythology which expects a LEED […]
Green College housing
Published by Keith April 5th, 2007 in Green Building, Green Hotels, Green Real Estate, Health, Photovoltaic Panels, Real Estate, San Francisco and Solar panels. 0 CommentsIt’s going to take a lot of educating for people to jump on the Green real estate band wagon. What better way to educate than with a Green college building right here in the City?
The New College has quietly purchased this old hotel on Fillmore and Fell and will soon transform it into the New […]
Orchard Garden Hotel preview
Published by Keith October 5th, 2006 in Environment, FSC, Gavin Newsome, Green Building, Green Hotels, LEED-NC, Luna Textiles, Orchard Garden Hotel and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe Orchard Garden Hotel continues to experience a delayed opening. Yes, the soon to be LEED certified hotel originally scheduled to open in September now has a realistic November on its sights.
The delays didn’t detract from the evening where Mayor Gavin Newsom joked that instead of a ribbon cutting ceremony the evening offered more of […]
Where do we Sleep now?
Published by Keith September 13th, 2006 in Eco Hotels, Environment, Golden Gate Park, Green Building, Green Hotels, LEED-NC, Orchard Garden Hotel, Photovoltaic Panels, San Francisco, Solar panels and West Coast Green. 0 CommentsWe can’t check in yet but we’re already giddy to sleep in one of the 86 rooms in the USA’s first LEED-NC certified hotel. San Francisco’s own Orchard Garden Hotel which represents the first in what will hopefully be a long line of green hotels will open in October. Green Roof Inns anyone?
Originally scheduled to […]