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    Residence Inn Marriott Exposé

    The Residence Inn Vancouver Downtown Establishes a Reputation for Eco-Friendly Hospitality

    Sustainability, carbon footprints, and environmental responsibility are the concepts that drive operations of the Residence Inn Vancouver Downtown. The results have proven to be the best shade of green for eco-friendly hospitality.

    Not only are its 21 floors and 201 suites examples of a fresh and modern design, a true complement to the natural surroundings, but they are also happily equipped with amenities that make any stay, extended or otherwise, superior in other ways.

    Green Key, which recognizes hotels, motels, and resorts for their varying levels of commitment to social and environmental responsibility, recently formally acclaimed this extended-stay hotel as an industry leader for environmentally-sensitive hospitality with the highest possible rating of five.

    Read more on Go Green Travel Green blog to learn more!

    Here’s how they do it!

    Subscribed program designed to reduce its carbon footprint:

    • Climate Smart—a locally based organization, partnered with BC Hydro, and works with small- to medium-sized businesses to help them reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions while also improving the bottom line.  The Residence Inn Vancouver Downtown recently completed its Climate Smart certification for the second year in a row.
    • Zero-Waste hotel—service containers are located throughout the hotel for three streams of materials: mixed-container recycling, organic-recycling containers, and alternative recovery.

    Energy reduction results:

    • Electric usage declined by 154 percent between 2011 and 2013.
    • Natural gas usage was reduced by 250 percent.
    • Water conservation improved by 158 percent.
    • Recycling and increased use of post-consumer recycled paper.
    • Energy-efficient light bulbs and office machinery and equipment.

    Conference waste reduction:

    • Flat-screen TVs in all meeting areas to allow the use of websites instead of paper.
    • Conference information via video, versus paper.
    • Locally-produced gifts for participants.
    • Encouraging the use of reusable coffee mugs.

    Visitor and guest participation:

    • Guests are invited to reduce waste by donating nonperishable food items, clothing, and suitcases left over from their stay.
    • Supporter of a variety of registered local causes like the Vancouver Food Bank, BC Children’s Hospital, and Mission Possible.
    • In-room recycling, composting, linen re-use programs, and video guest directory.

    The next time your flight is destined for Vancouver and your agenda demands that you be in the downtown core, choose The Residence Inn Vancouver Downtown. With home-like features, ecological advancements, access to transportation, the best shopping, and food options, you won’t miss home.

    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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