The Fairmont is an industry leader in sustainable hotel management with its award-winning Green Partnership Program. Practices involve guests and staff and include buying island-grown fruits, vegetables and products for the hotel's restaurants and green cuisine menu in the employee cafeteria and recycling bins, tinted windows and towel and linens reuse in guestrooms. Meanwhile, the Orchid Beachboys program educates about marine life, there is ongoing water quality and reef monitoring with the University of Hawaii and a co-generation energy facility is planned. Email contact for more information.
City: Kohala Coast | District: Kohala Coast
This beautiful resort combines restoration, innovation and education in dozens of both large and small green practices throughout its oceanside property. These include monthly green team meetings, restoration of historic Hawaiian fishponds, recycling of all bottles, plastic, paper and cardboard; offsite greenwaste compost facility; grease shipped to Maui for biodiesel conversion; self-sufficient in water needs; swimming pools converted to salt-water; use of green consultants and energy feasibility study with local electric company; gray water for irrigation and many more. Email contact for more information.
City: Kailua-Kona | District: Kohala Coast