Louise Cross will pledge to jog to work, which is 7 miles.
Graham, Mainantence, contacted "The Cartridge Hospital" who will now be arranging free collection of our used toner cartridges.
Some of our Team Members will be car sharing.
Two of our GSA's are walking to work.
June Brittles, Hotel Administrator, will promise not to continue to leave her oven on to heat up for ever and stop running the shower water for too long before actually getting in it.
We all pledge not to be leaving our TV's, Play Stations, Computers, etc on stand by.
We all pledge to continue not to be wasting paper.
Another of our GSA's will promise not to use the car for the day and will not use her hair dryer and or straightners.
Amen...

Re-use 2009 Go Green T-Shirts
Seperate all recyclable items into seperate bins through H/K along with the Kitchen.
Promote email check-outs to all guests
Open front door instead of air conditioning unit
Housekeeping to use lower settings on washing machine
Avoid using plastic bags for reception bins, recycle and dispose in cardboard bin collection
TV's off when not in use
Be more environmentally friendly at home with refuge and eletricals being turned off

We are going to:
Ensure we continue to recycle paper
Not leave lights on unecessarily
Offer emailed invoices
Use the checklists to ensure we don't leave electrical equipment on etc in each department
Recycle our cartridges - awaiting our box
Kerrie and Cat to car share as both on early shift
I will continue to email all my statements/copy invoices - quicker response for payments!
Not to leave taps on
Ensure we are all focused on making a difference on the 27th August and for future!

This year we are going to focus on
- turning off PC's in the back office
- not have TV's on standby in the bedrooms
- Change the lighting configuration in the bedroom so less lights on when the guest checks in

We also hope to be able to annouce in the near future that we working in partnership with a local company who will supply a courtsey bus service to the airport ever 10- 15 minutes in an enviromentally friendly vechicle hence reducing the number of taxi's we use for guest and also creating a new revenue stream for the hotel

Carrying on from last year we have continued with

- the mixed recycle bins in the kitchen
- housekeeping separating waste from bedrooms
- ensuring all lights that are not required to be on are off in the back office
- Attending the local low carbon forum run by the airport to again other ideas from other local companies
- Working with property department and contractors we have made great progress on repairing or replacing equipment in hotel so that it is work efficently
- Exploring other ways to reduce our carbon foot print

CON'T

Things we have continued since our last Green Day…
-Turn off all lights when they are not needed
-Mixed recycling bins in breakfast for guests to sort their breakfast waste
-Using scrap paper for taking messages and internal documents
-All equipment eg Coffee Machines, Air Conditioning units, Computers etc
-Reuse boxes from deliveries for storage eg. day packs, therefore not using unnecessary stationary
-Send our printer cartridges to be recycled to help raise money for a local hospice
-Using energy saving light bulbs where possible around the hotel

I can't say I'm looking forward to friday - I intend working from our hotel at Stoke, I will travel by train to Stoke station and then walk along the canal for two miles to the hotel - come rain (probably) or shine! Will save on co2 emissions - and hopefully help me tone my 26 pack!
Have a great green day!
Steve

Things we have introduced…
-Mixed recycling bins in reception, bar and kitchen to separate all waste.
-Mixed recycling bins on all floors of the hotel for Housekeeping to separate guest waste from bedrooms wherever possible.
-Always turn the TV off in the Great Room, rather than leaving it on standby during the day and at night.
-Signs to remind people to turn taps off fully rather than letting them drip and waste water.
-With agreement from our clients, putting reference numbers directly on invoices, rather than sending a copy of the back up, therefore saving one sheet of paper every time a third party is charged.
-Only issue one key card on check in unless requested- so it can’t be left in the electricity box
-Donate all old pillows, bed ends, sofa bed covers to hostels and animal charities
-Donate old mugs and glasses to homeless charities and refuges.
-Recycle old lost property, including clothes and paper items

In Northampton we have introduced lots of ideas to save energy and help the environment.

Things our staff are going to do on Go Green Day…
-Wash up and not use the dishwasher
-Walk to work
-Not Smoke
-Going Camping
-Recycling at home
-Not leave the tap running while brushing teeth
-Bike to work
-Eat all food from their allotment, saving on packaging and petrol
-As we do not have a glass recycling collection yet, we will take it to Tescos instead
-Offer guests the option of emailing their invoice instead of printing it for them.
-Advertise to guests that it is Green Day and ask them to help us in our efforts
-Staff will bring in old mobile phones so we can add them to the cartridge recycling

Following a visit from Chris Mooney and then Martin Coombes, it became apparent I wasn’t very green!

So after discussions with both of them we have now changed the lighting in all of our bedrooms, we now only have the light on the wall as you enter on and the 2 bedside lights which are LED. The bathrooms lights, the blue light on the wall and the desk light are all off as of the 13/8/2010.