School 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 […]
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Back 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 CommentRooftop Garden or Rooftop Patio?
Published by Keith February 23rd, 2007 in Eco Hotels, LEED-NC and Orchard Garden Hotel. 0 CommentsWe’re pretty big fans of the Orchard Garden Hotel with it being the first soon to be LEED certified hotel in Cali. The thing is that the Rooftop Garden should actually be declared the Rooftop Patio. Although the hotel staff mentions that it’s not completed the “garden” contains great views of the SF concrete jungle […]
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 […]