As a Dane I actually got a little proud today. The hotel Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers was recognized as the most eco-friendly hotel and got the EcoTourism Award. I started to read a little bit about the hotel and some of its sustainable thoughts are actually pretty cool.
First of all it has Northern Europe’s largest solar power cell system to produce electricity for the hotel while the ground water takes care of air condition. All the shampoo bottles, toothbrushes and shower caps are biodegradable and the TV’s and lamps run on low energy. Combined it all make this hotel carbon neutral.
Second of all, and this is actually my favorite part, it encourage its guest to take part in making the Earth a greener place. If a guest gets in an exercise mood he or she can go for a ride on the hotel’s electricity producing bicycles and everyone that produces 10 watt hours can enjoy a free meal in the hotel’s restaurant. I know I would definitely go biking a lot more with a nice meal in sight.
To me a hotel like that seems like an amazing idea and I would probably spend a few extra bucks on a greener conscience when traveling. So it made me think about sustainable architecture. Buildings and residential areas have the greatest carbon-emission impact and thus the most important place to take a look at in trying to reduce carbon-emission.
An interesting example is this one Danish guy Jul Hørlyck that made a business out of isolating people’s houses so well that they can be heated up by only two light bulbs. That’s just amazing.
By incorporating sustainability into architecture like the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers and Jul Hørlyck a lot of carbon-emission can be omitted or reduced. And since there’s an ongoing international war against pollution and climate changes I think there’s a major business in sustainable architecture. It’s just up to the large office buildings, hotels, airports and residential areas to figure out that they need it.
Ingen kommentarer:
Send en kommentar