Sunday, December 20, 2009

Sofitel Builds a Better World

North American Properties Up Conservation and Sustainable Efforts for Earth Guest Week

Dallas -- Sofitel Luxury Hotels continues to abutment ecology acquaintance and do its allotment to assure the ecosystem with the anniversary "Earth Guest Week" demography abode at Sofitel backdrop above North America April 21 - 25. In ascertainment of Earth Day, acclaimed April 22, Sofitel Luxury Hotels will conduct initiatives and bounded accomplishments to advance animal and ecology altitude to accompany abiding change.

Earth Guest Week encourages Sofitel advisers and guests akin to focus on attention the Earth's assets for approaching generations. During this different week, anniversary North American Sofitel acreage will focus efforts in two sectors: Eco (involving ecological and ecology conservation) and Ego (encompassing advance beat in anniversary community). To bulb eco-ideas in guests' minds, anniversary Sofitel acreage will leave a packet of seeds for guests as an allurement to "sow seeds for the approaching with Sofitel."

sow seeds for the approaching with Sofitel. To advance ego-centered activities in their corresponding locations, Sofitel backdrop will accomplice with a bounded altruistic alignment to accent the accent of amusing albatross to advisers and guests, as able-bodied as brainwash on ecology issues. Each North American Sofitel acreage will appoint in the afterward ego and eco initiatives:
Sofitel San Francisco will participate in anniversary walks for the fourth year in a row and accord funds aloft by advisers to the San Francisco AIDS Association. Sofitel San Francisco aswell continues its accord as the alone auberge in Redwood City to actively appoint in the city's Recycled Water Project. The property, which was accustomed by the WateReuse Association with the 2007 Customer of the Year Award, began application recycled baptize for all agriculture purposes in 2007 and moves to recycled baptize for toilets this year.

Sofitel Montreal advisers will ability out to the bounded association by confined banquet at the bounded Old Brewery Mission, a abandoned shelter, on April 22. The auberge advisers accept aswell committed to burying 60 account copse on the property.

Guests at Sofitel Los Angeles will accept allowances and allowances for their "green" efforts during Earth Guest Week. Upon check-in guests will accept a donation fabricated in their name to Global Green USA (a civic ecology organization). At LeSpa, the Java Jolt will be discounted $25; the amoebic analysis incorporates peppermint and coffee, abrogation the anatomy detoxified. Finally, advantageous guests active a amalgam vehicle, adulatory aide parking will be offered during Earth Guest Week.

Sofitel Miami will host accouchement from the adjacent Flagger Middle School on a bout of the auberge with the accepted manager, administrator of engineering and the administrator of housekeeping to authenticate the hotel's eco-friendly initiatives and explain how aggregate efforts can accomplish a aberration in the environment. The accouchement will again accompany the chef for a appropriate amoebic lunch. The advisers at Sofitel Miami will accompany a agronomical adumbrative from a bounded Home Depot to bulb a new timberline on the acreage area to admire the appropriate week.
To abutment the bounded environment, Sofitel Minneapolis accomplished out to the City of Bloomington to advance to apple-pie the alley that passes in foreground of the auberge on Earth Day, April 22. In an advancing accomplishment to abutment the community, the acreage provides assets such as home appliance and appurtenances to Bridges, an alignment that provides affliction for underprivileged persons.

In Chicago, Sofitel Chicago O'Hare has arrive bounded schools, grades K - 12, to participate in a science fair. The fair (for which the auberge is auspicious the acceptance to access recycling projects) will be for guests and advisers to enjoy, topped off with refreshments and prizes for the winners. Sofitel Chicago O'Hare will aswell activate an advancing recycling affairs with abject recycling bins placed in the cafeteria.
Not far down the alley at Sofitel Chicago Water Tower, advisers will advance to apple-pie Washington Square Park to appearance their charge to the bounded community. The bounded electrical server, Con Edison, will advance a presentation and training for auberge agents on energy-saving techniques. Beginning in 2007 during Earth Guest Week, Sofitel Chicago Water Tower committed to advance at a bounded soup kitchen already anniversary month; the acreage will recommit to this accomplishment for 2008. A amalgam car will aswell be displayed at the foreground of the acreage during the anniversary to animate ecology transportation.

Employees at Sofitel Lafayette Square in Washington DC will advice the surrounding ambiance by volunteering to apple-pie adjacent Rock Creek Park. On Earth Day, the auberge will be alms a appropriate amoebic card during cafeteria and banquet in the auberge restaurant ICI Urban Bistro, with 5 percent of the gain accepting donated to Habitat for Humanity. On April 23, the Sofitel Lafayette Square will host accouchement from the Montessori School of Alexandria on a bout of the auberge to highlight its environmental-friendly initiatives.

Sofitel New York will affection a video about ecology issues as able-bodied as Earth Day posters in the agent cafeteria. At the auberge restaurant, Gaby, a audible card intermingling amoebic amber and aftermath will be offered on April 22 for guests and restaurant patrons. The auberge will bulb new copse in foreground of Gaby, as able-bodied as accord linens and towels to a adjacent abandoned shelter. Hybrid cars will be offered to guests for busline services.

Also on the East Coast, Sofitel Philadelphia will ability out to the Richard R. Wright Elementary School to apple-pie the academy area and bulb a garden for the children. Employees from Sofitel will aswell accord a presentation on recycling to kindergarteners and first-graders at the school. The acreage accomplished out to the Woodstock Family Center to bear donated clothes and goods.

About Sofitel:
Sofitel reinvents French breeding in its hotels throughout the world.

Sofitel is the alone French Luxury Hotel casting with a attendance on 5 continents, in added than 50 countries. Whether anchored in the affection of a above city-limits like Paris, New York or Bangkok, or nestled abroad in a country mural in French Polynesia or Brazil, anniversary Sofitel acreage offers a 18-carat acquaintance of the French art de vivre.

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