The Green 30

Fairmont Hotels Inc.
Luxury hotels & resorts, Toronto

• Employee-run recycling programs are so successful and profitable that each hotel has its own “Green Team,” which meets monthly and includes employees from all departments; properties compete for coveted “Environmental Hotel of the Year” title.
• Long-standing environmental program focuses on waste management, energy and water conservation, and the use of earth-friendly products; at some hotels more than 80 per cent of items previously thrown away as garbage, such as food scraps and used furniture, are now recycled or reused.
• With their “Green Partnership Guide” distributed to hotel management schools and even other hotel chains, it literally wrote the book on how to build a greener business.
• Wide variety of environmental initiatives including organic gardens, nature trails at resort locations and support for clean air initiatives and habitat protection; golf courses are part of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary system and hotel properties worldwide operate programs to raise awareness and protect endangered species in areas where they operate, including raising funds to conserve the beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River, right whales off the coast of New Brunswick, grizzly bears and wolves in Alberta, sea turtles in Acapulco and bluebirds in Bermuda. (8,836)