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Our project progress and research insights into enabling tourist accommodation and destinations persuade guests to participate in saving resource saving and choosing better holiday experiences.
Hospitably firms save 12-30% energy through conserving behaviours: 2019 UNEP One Planet Programme report
Hospitably firms save 12-30% energy through conserving behaviours: 2019 UNEP One Planet Programme reportImplementing conserving resource strategies is proving to be a sound approach to reducing carbon emissions and costs. The International Centre for...
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Tourism Declares Climate Emergency
Tourism Declares Climate Emergency is a global campaign encouraging responsible action to cut emissions. The following is my commitment to support this initiative as I think we all need to be more transparent and collaborative. Since 2007 I have measured...
read moreAnd the winners are…. our guests for adapting their behaviour!
Thursday night in Melbourne saw My Green Butler win the prestigious Banksia Foundation Award for Small Business. This was a significant moment in the start-up’s progress for two reasons. Firstly, because the Banksia Award is widely regarded as the leading...
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How we can pull back on earth overshoot
So since 2007 we have marched on and increased the overshoot date by 12 days and the predictions of increasing effects from Climate Change are now apparent in the UK with hotter summers.
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Sustainable tourism innovations
Hear about sustainable tourism innovations generated through knowledge and participation with Christopher Warren from Crystal Creek Meadows and ICRT Australia.
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UNWTO showcases My Green Butler
My Green Butler was recently featured in Advancing towards a clear North magazine by UNWTO.
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Chris Warren Interviewed on 94.1FM 3WBC
Listen to "My Green Butler Christopher Warren" on Spreaker. Chris was recently interviewed about My Green Butler on "Green Tick-it Ecotourism" by James Porteous and Viarnne Mischon on What a Wonderful World, 94.1fm 3WBC.
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The Green Ceiling
The ‘Green Ceiling’ Savings that are early ‘low hanging fruit’ hid the challenges on longer time savings Christopher Warren Progamme Director My Green Butler Tourist accommodation has three primary focus areas for resource management: design & technology,...
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Beyond Mr and Mrs Average
Beyond Mr and Mrs Average Recognising that each guest is an individual is the key to significant accommodation resource saving Guest use of resources represents a very important opportunity for reducing resource use and emissions as they can consume 40-50% of a...
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Where’s the Tesla-like innovation in tourism?
One of the reasons why tourist accommodation does not more deeply involve guests in resource saving and waste reduction is that it appears to contradict the ethos of hospitality, but not all guests are the same and in fact taking responsibility not to be wasteful and proactive can be a positive.
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