Cindy Fuller Home will soon launch a large range of eco-friendly creative kits. Be sure to enter the competition and bag yourself one of the first kits.

Building on the success of her website, Cindy Fuller is preparing to launch eco-friendly products that can be bought directly from her website.

Cindy Fuller Home will start to display and sell products from the Plush Folly range of kits and will look to add her own products shortly.  The emphasis will once again be to promote eco-friendly and money saving products that customers can purchase from the comfort of their homes.

The Plush Folly range of kits use ethically sourced ingredients and are designed to transform readily available ingredients into soaps, cosmetics, fragrances, candles and much more.

Cindy will develop her own range of eco-friendly products and while she has already firmed up some eye-catching products, Cindy is always open to suggestions and requests. This is a keystone of the Cindy Fuller Home website – active participation and input from visitors.

Products to be launched will cater for the home and eco-friendly cosmetic range. Kits will provide full ingredients, extensive “How To” instructions and a wealth of experience. Mix in a good handful of the love and commitment that Cindy has dedicated to an eco-friendly and creative lifestyle and these product ranges are bound to add sparkle and joy. To keep up to date with forthcoming product releases, be sure to sign up to the Newsletter at http://www.cindyfullerhome.com.

Building the online store is “an ideal opportunity and fits well with my main themes and ethics” comments Cindy. The main advantage is that people can browse an extensive range from the comfort of their homes without needless driving about. Stock of kits will be plentiful and once the main ingredients of any kits starts to run out they can be topped up as most of the ingredients and components are readily available. “Saving money, being creative and easily replenished to boot – an ideal commitment to being eco-friendly” concludes Cindy.

COMPETITION – WIN PLUSH FOLLY PRODUCTS

A direct call to all eco-friendly creatives out there! Cindy is running a competition which visitors can enter by visiting http://www.cindyfullerhome.com/home/Competition.aspx. The competition calls on visitors to submit ideas based on the theme of ‘New Uses for Old Items’. Entrants are asked to submit innovative and eco-friendly ways to recycle old items into functional and money-saving products. The Top Three responses will receive Plush Folly kits. The Competition closes on the 30^th June and the winning entry will be showcased on the homepage of Cindy’s website.

ABOUT CINDY FULLER

Cindy Fuller’s website http://www.cindyfullerhome.com is the ultimate one stop destination for the environmentally aware. The website provides a wealth of information on being more eco-friendly in this ever faster world where consumerism eats away at lessening resources. Cindy provides fantastic tips on how to be save money and be more eco aware with content covering fashion, entertaining, crafts, gardening, home, recycling ideas and much more. All topics hold the central theme of being more eco and provide huge insight into money saving tips to boot.

CONTACT

Cindy Fuller Home

149 Upper Richmond Road

Putney London

SW15 2TX

[email protected]

07912 290 642

Smart Landscape Watering Systems Reduce Hotel Water Costs while Maintaining a Beautiful and Healthy Landscape

Summer is here and most green hotels have geared up to make sure their lawn and landscape stays green and beautiful for the enjoyment of guests and improved occupancy rates. As you start switching on those irrigation systems, now is a good time to think about controlling utility costs and being environmentally friendly.

Over watering of lawns and landscapes is the most common cause of water waste. It not only runs up the utility bills, but also can cause other problems including:

• Plant diseases such as root rot
• Run-off from your lawn and landscape, which may contribute to the pollution of streams and lakes (because lawn care chemicals go along with it)
• More frequent mowing and pruning from rapid plant growth
• Excessive “green waste,” which has become a costly waste disposal problem for cities and counties

How can a hotel use water efficiently with an irrigation system?

Recent innovative technologies can now help green hotel operators reduce wasted water and decrease utility expenses. A weather based watering technology, SmartLine, has proven to be an economical choice for green hotels of any size.

How Does it Work?

Stated simply, it’s like a thermostat for the landscape.  The Weathermatic SmartLine System replaces the existing sprinkler timers that operate like the old egg timer.  The SmartLine System uses weather readings from a small, on-property weather station to automatically calculate precise run times for the plants in each zone. It uses the sprinkler precipitation rates, soil type, and slope to apply water in run and soak cycles at a rate the soil can accept.  This technology also eliminates the need to have lawn maintenance crews manually adjusting controllers to match the ever-changing weather conditions.

Real Dollar and Water Savings

With over 200,000 installations in 80 countries, SmartLine water savings range from 20 to over 60% and wasteful irrigation runoff is virtually eliminated.  This high efficiency system results in a return on investment of typically 12 months or less.

You Only Know What You Measure

Another helpful feature is the SmartLine Water Management Service that includes access to monthly reporting detailing site-specific water savings and performance compared to water usage goals considering the actual weather conditions. This could come in very handy not only as a monitoring device, but to verify the entire irrigation system is working properly.

For more information, visit EcoGreenHotel Store or email us at [email protected]

About EcoGreenHotel

EcoGreenHotel LLC is a privately held company, dedicated to help lodging facilities address the broad spectrum of sustainability issues. The company provides information, tools, checklists, current news and trends to the hospitality through its website, www.EcoGreenHotel.com. In 2009, the company launched an online marketplace for green products and services at www.EcoGreenHotelStore.com. In addition to the online offerings, EcoGreenHotel provides customized consulting services in the areas of energy efficiency and certifications (LEED, Green Seal and Energy Star), tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry. For those properties that have reached certified levels of sustainability, EcoGreenHotel assists with marketing services to position the properties within the growing “green” space and enhance revenue. For further information email [email protected] or call 888.229.0213.

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The focus on greening operations is evolving and some green teams are beginning to focus their efforts on integrating sustainability into employees’ personal lives, while others are aligning their efforts to support broader corporate sustainability objectives.

The business value of these three levels include: cost savings by integrating energy efficiency into the workplace and products and services; attracting and retaining the best and brightest talent who want to for companies and hotels with an authentic green commitment; and increasing market share and revenues resulting from a stronger brand and new, innovative green products and services.

This GREEN TEAM series provides a summary of the emerging trends and outlines the best practices for green teams:

• Start with the visible and tangible: focus on internal operations
• Get senior management involved, butdon’t lose the grassroots energy
• Engage employees to capture ideas
• Communicate and share best practices
• Engage employees with their bellies: The low carbon diet campaign
• Engage employees in their personal lives
• Engage guests to be part of the solution
• Use art to raise awareness
• Create a toolkit to support and guide green teams
• Align green teams with corporate and hotel sustainability goals

This is a resource for companies, organizations and individual hotels just getting started and for those who want to take their existing green program to its next level. It is based on interviews with green team leaders, as well as a review of the latest literature and reports on employee engagement and green hotel teams.

GREEN TEAMS: Introduction
Keeping employees engaged, happy and productive has always been a priority for leading companies, organizations and individual hotels.
Today, as green becomes more mainstream, a growing number of employees want to work for a company committed to sustainability and seek a work setting where the green practices they value at home are being implemented at their workplace.

In a survey commissioned by National Geographic magazine, more than 80 percent of U.S. workers polled said they believe it is important to work for a company or organization that makes the environment a top priority. In 2009, many graduating Harvard MBAs signed an “MBA oath” showing their interest for companies that “strive to create sustainable economic, social and environmental prosperity worldwide.”

Green teams – self-organized, grassroots and cross-functional groups of employees who voluntarily come together to educate and build awareness about sustainability issues and to implement programs that encourage employees and hotel guests to take action – are increasing in popularity as a tool for both keeping employees engaged and showing your commitment to sustainability.

This GREEN TEAMS series provides an overview of some of the best green practices companies and hotels are using to support and guide green teams, without squashing their grassroots passion and energy. It is divided into four key sections:

• Making the business case for green teams;
• Getting started;
• Four emerging trends; and
• Green hotel team best practices.

Look out for EcoGreenHotel’s May Eco Newsletter as we bring you: Making the business case for green teams.

For more information please visit: http://www.ecogreenhotel.com

A new report by the non-profit research organization Center for Responsible Travel (formerly Travel Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development) found that responsible tourism has withstood the global recession better than the tourism industry as a whole. Perhaps that’s one reason many hotels are eagerly embracing Earth Day (though we’d like to think that a growing commitment to sustainable practices plays a role).

Celebrate April 22^nd – and help raise awareness about environmental concerns with your green hotel guests and community – by hosting one of the following top ten ideas.

Start a Community Garden

With just a little bit of space, raw material, and effort, a community garden within your green hotel’s landscape serves many purposes. It can get guests and the community actively involved in an eco-related activity; produce fresh fruits and vegetables for your restaurant/kitchen or beautiful flowers for scenery. It also helps bring the community closer together at your hotel! It will definitely leave an impression.

Serve Sustainable Food

If you have a restaurant at your green hotel, allow your Chefs to serve sustainable entrees. When the bill comes, diners can donate $1 to a non-profit charitable eco-friendly organization like the National Geographic Society.

“Go Green, Save Green” Package

Offer guests a custom green stay package, which can include room discount, favorable hybrid parking spot, and percent off on organic products and services at your gift shop, spa, restaurant, or bar.

Change the Lights

Being a “green” hotel starts with the basics. Make sure all the lights in the hotel are eco-friendly to help conserve energy. Compact fluorescent light bulbs, halogen light bulbs and LEDs are all good choices.

Earth Day Green Project

Enlist your guests and employees to take part in a community restoration, clean-up or any other environmentally friendly project (even if it’s simply planting trees). Afterwards, they can take advantage of discounts at your bar, restaurant, or on eco-minded spa services.

Replace Disposables

May of the items hotel guests and employees use every day can be improved to be reusable and reduce waste. Replace your drinking cups with these compostable World Art hot & cold cups, or how about a refillable water bottle, for starters.

Join a Resource Pledge

Make a pact (or policy) with your employees, guests and others, locally or on a national scale, to help conserve resources. Involve your guests by inviting them to participate in a “Take a short shower” program (give out branded shower timers that guest can take home and use) or “Turn all lights off during daylight hours” or simply purchase recycled paper only from now on; etc.

Attend a Rally

Sheer force of numbers helps to raise awareness about environmental issues. Show your community and guests your commitment to being a green hotel. Be a face in the crowd at a local rally to help tip the scale in favor of eco-friendliness. You can enlist employees and guests to attend. Gather for pre-rally fun and shuttle everyone to the event! Your hotel’s good stewardship will definitely recognized.

Hybrid Parking & Bike Rentals

Offer complimentary, special spot, parking for hybrid vehicles and offer free or discounted bike rentals to guests to explore your city. Don’t forget the bike rack!

Hold a “Green” Wine & Food Event

Celebrate the day with local wineries, restaurants, farms and locally sourced products. You can offer a special Sustainable Wine & Food lunch or dinner to your guests and community or go all out and have a festival right at your green hotel. Either way, you’ll definitely make the local newspaper (make sure you let them know in advance).

About EcoGreenHotel

EcoGreenHotel is dedicated to helping lodging facilities address environmental issues and achieve the Triple Bottom Line. EcoGreenHotel.com is also a great resource for tools, checklists, current news and trends, as well as a marketplace for green products and services at EcoGreenHotelStore.com. EcoGreenHotel also offers green marketing services for existing green hotels.

For more information visit at : http://www.ecogreenhotel.com

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Media Contact:
Scott Parisi
EcoGreenHotel.com
[email protected]
(888)229-0213 Ext.801

ROBBINSVILLE, N.J. – EcoGreenHotel, Inc announced today the official launch of it’s new online store www.EcoGreenHotelStore.com. EcoGreenHotel Store is a one-stop marketplace of over 1000 products and services for the green hospitality industry.

For the first time, the hospitality industry now has a reliable marketplace for their green supply needs. Through EcoGreenHotel Store, properties can purchase everything from environmentally sensitive amenities, earth-friendly cleaning supplies and sustainable furniture to biodegradable key cards and marketing services designed specifically for the green hotel industry.

Scott Parisi, President of EcoGreenHotel, states, “Over and over again, environmentally conscious hotel professionals have told us they wished they could simplify things and purchase their green supplies from one location…and so we set out to create the most comprehensive online source for environmentally friendly hospitality goods and services in the industry.”

EcoGreenHotel Store is a green marketplace that:

    Provides one-stop shopping
    Enables easy access to quality green products and services from numerous vendors
    Offers comparable and competitive pricing
    Offers environmentally preferable products that are not “greenwashing”
    Allows hotels to minimize costs associated with labor and time-intensive effort required for researching, identifying, testing and acquiring
    Allows hotels to reach guests who are concerned about their environmental impact
    Offers additional product search support for hotels seeking “hard-to-find” green alternatives and product reviews
    Contributes to the goal of “People, Planet, and Profits”

For the past year, Parisi has collaborated with veteran specialty suppliers including Pineapple Hospitality, DeBlauw Purchasing, T2 Site Amenities, and Ecotek to assemble cost-effective eco hotel products available on the web.  His vision for the store is simple:

“We want the EcoGreenHotel Store to be the go-to source for quality, affordable eco hotel products and services.”

A few benefits of Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP):

    Reduce waste and utility costs
    Attract environmentally conscious customers
    Possible new revenue streams
    Improve image: brand and goodwill
    Responsive to employee and guests health and wellness needs
    Economically responsible hospitality supply buying
    Increase stakeholder value
    Minimize environmental footprint

The EcoGreenHotel Store’s virtual shelves are stocked with products and services from dozens of companies, including:

    Azul Conservation Products, home of cool tools designed to preserve precious water resources.
    Hanger Network, creator of the EcoHanger, the ultimate sustainable multi-tasker.
    Swisssol-USA Creative Body Care, maker of incredible natural body care products and dispenser systems.
    Hospitality v-Marketing, the place to go for multi-media content, photography, videography and graphic design for eco hotels.
    Luxur-Eco, wholesaler of lavish environmentally-conscious items for the hotel bed and bath.

EcoGreenHotel has partnered with Ray Burgur, President of Pineapple Hospitality, which is a superior distribution and marketing company dedicated to providing innovative products and services to the lodging industry. Pineapple is currently the largest supplier of eco amenities, cleaning products, and other merchandise being offered on the site.
“Pineapple has played a major role in identifying relationships with additional suppliers that will be offering products on the site,” Parisi said.  “And for advance planning and sourcing of FF&E (furniture, fixtures, and equipment) for renovations, PIP’s (product improvement plans) mandated by brands, and supplies for new-build hotels, services provided by DeBlauw will assist hotels of any size .So the EcoGreenHotel Store’s offerings cover the entire scope of the industry.”
EcoGreenHotelStore.com brings all of those products together in one place, making it easy for hotel owners and managers to make the right choices as we move toward a more sustainable AND more profitable future for the hospitality industry.
Parisi continues to seek sustainable products to add to the merchandise lineup at the EcoGreenHotel Store.  Potential vendors are asked to contact him immediately at [email protected]
About EcoGreenHotel
A valuable resource for hoteliers, EcoGreenHotel is dedicated to helping lodging facilities address environmental issues and implement environmentally sound initiatives.  The company’s online presence at www.EcoGreenHotel.com and www.EcoGreenHotelStore.com offers a marketplace for green products and services and provides a one-stop venue for green hospitality industry news, basic environmental overviews and other tools like green hotel checklists, project ideas, book lists, and valuable links designed to promote a more sustainable hospitality industry.

EcoGreenHotel’s consulting services guide owners, operators and developers through the journey of developing and/or maintaining a sustainable operation or project.

For more information about EcoGreenHotel, please visit www.EcoGreenHotel.com or send an email to [email protected]

Due to worry about the effects of chemicals on babies and concern about the environment, many parents have chosen to use organic baby products for their children. Natural baby items and eco-friendly products are easy for the earth, easy for the skin and do not contain any toxins which are found in a large number of chemical based baby products.

There are growing debates regarding potential health related effects of chemicals which seep from some kinds of plastics, especially their effects on the delicate babies. Recent headlines have raised concerns about soft vinyl teethers, bottles and toys which infants use to chew or suck. Experts have recommended the parents to dispose any such plastic or chemical based products they have bought for their child and start using natural baby products such as organic baby t-shirts. It is a fact that skin of babies is very delicate and is more prone to develop effects like rashes from chemicals which are included in the baby’s skin care products. Therefore, keeping in view the delicate skin of the babies, an extensive array of organic baby skin care products have been made available in the market. Researches show that most of the non-organic baby skin care products are not safety tested and thus using them upon your baby’s skin contains potential risks. Studies have suggested that many non-organic baby skin care products contain anti-freeze which is strong enough to kill an animal upon ingestion. So, it is not at all wise to put your baby at such a great risk.

There is a wide array of organic baby products which range from clothing and cribs to diapers and food products. All these eco-friendly products are not only risk-free for your baby but also helpful in saving the environment. Products made of plastic and other chemical based products are responsible for causing harm to your child as well as to the environment as a whole.

One of the most accepted and popular natural baby products is the organic baby bedding. These are ideal for people who want to avoid the ill-effects caused by harmful chemical based products used on the cotton farms. Most of such organic baby bedding products makes use of naturally grown cotton which do not utilize chemicals used in traditional cotton farms. Organic baby bedding is also perfect for people whose children have asthma or certain allergies. This is due to the fact that lots of chemicals are used in making non-organic bedding and sheets which encourage asthma and cause allergies in the delicate babies.

Organic clothing is also one of the most popular organic baby products available in the market. These organic clothing items such as organic baby t-shirts are extremely useful for babies who have problems related to skin sensitivity. A large number of people have noticed that these skin allergy and asthma related problems have completely disappeared after starting use of organic clothing. Whatever the eco-friendly products you choose, these products are become necessary for people who want to shop in an environmentally aware fashion. So, whenever you go out shopping for your baby, make sure to consider buying some of these organic baby t-shirts and see the difference. For more information visit at www.purebaby.com