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I think it is a combination of resistance from managers and a lack of certainty on what it can mean if a manager lower down the hierarchy took that decision to make the change at one hotel, when the company’s HQ is based elsewhere in India or the world. Now who would want to incur the wrath of senior management at the corporate headquarters with a decision taken locally? Read the rest of this entry »

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I took a factor of 2.5 to cover centralized air-conditioning, the pumps, and the array of cooking and other appliances that help a 5-star hotel serve its customers. That totted up to about 4.5 million units a year. Not much as money goes… about Rs 30 lacs a month, or Rs 3.6 crore a year. I may be wrong on my hazard of these estimates, for I have gone on a certain premise of use of power in the hotel without having had the opportunity to do what one calls a ‘load analysis’. Read the rest of this entry »

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The writer is the Chairman of BCIL-ZED, the Bangalore-based global pioneer in green building.

It was ironic. It was a five-star hotel, one of the older ones in Bangalore. They had organized a green initiative this week; intending to do something toward making a better Bangalore on World Environment Day. Read the rest of this entry »

When in hotels, ensure that you use the same towel over your two- or three-day stay. That will help the hotel save water.

Each day, hotel guests use more than double the water they use at home. Why do we behave differently when outside and use much more water than when at home?

Turn the lights down low and fire up a pair of soya candles. Soya candles burn cleaner than paraffin and they are not petroleum-based.

So no fossil fuel regret.