Back in 2012, while working as the Sales & Marketing Manager of Hotel Doolin in West Clare, my General Manager told me to form a "green team" and apply for Green Hospitality Ireland certification.
Excuse me but...what?!
To say I was apprehensive at the start would be an absolute understatement!
...Allow us to steal 3 minutes of your time today to show you just how simple it is to reduce your hotel’s carbon footprint and even achieve carbon neutrality.
Sustainability is a word that is thrown around constantly and in so many scenarios that it becomes an unachievable task and a blurry concept ...
Odran Lucey, executive chef at the Rose Hotel in Tralee, Ireland, has become the first person in the world to successfully complete a brand-new qualification for Environmental Sustainability Management in Hospitality.
Fifty Shades Greener (FSG) and the Confederation of Tourism & Hospitality (CTH) j...
What can be more tempting than a sustainable solution that benefits your business in three ways - socially, economically and environmentally?
You can triple win in your business by doing the following:
- Reducing your use of resources and CO2 footprint.
- Reducing operating costs and empowering m...
Ireland has much work to do in 2022 to implement solutions to curb the colossal CO2 emissions from our Island’s overuse of resources. In my quest to research other solutions that weren’t tree planting, I landed on the bog!
A day cutting turf is an age-old tradition in Ireland and has cultural imp...
As defined by the European Parliament;
“The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended.”
The driv...
18 months ago, the ‘Work from Home’ movement was building momentum, but for the vast majority of office workers, the concept of having a permanent full time office seemed unlikely.
The pandemic saw something we never thought we would witness in our lifetime, where industry and businesses grounded t...
Lockdown life was and is tough. People do what they can to get through it and one such thing for me, was watching TV in the evening. Escapism was easy and I am privileged to have access to free TV and films.
Viewing my favourite shows however, I began to notice something that I hadn’t before. The ...
As an online company, a significant amount of our carbon emissions are created “online”. The internet contributes to between 2% and 3.7% of global emissions (ClimateCare),(wholegraindigital.com). A report by Gartner, estimates that PCs and monitors account for around 0.8 percent of global CO2 emissi...
I have been working as an educator for environmental sustainability for a few years now, and never have I been more disillusioned than in recent times.
I like many others, had confidence and trust in the many “labels” seen on products we consume. ‘Eco-labels’ - Free from Tuna, Sustainable Palm Oil,...
In last week’s blog I spoke about personal accountability when it comes to Climate Change.
Link to Blog; https://www.fiftyshadesgreener.ie/blog/climate-change-why-personal-responsibility-matters
I also shared my own story of how I became empowered to start doing something about Climate Change my...
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