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First LEED Certified Silver Hotel in Colorado is in Beaver Creek

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  • Half the resort’s electricity is from renewable sources, including wind power,
  • Nearly half the total building materials and products it uses are from within 500 miles, which reduced both transportation costs and CO2 emissions,
  • 10% of construction materials are from recycled objects, such as the recycled tires used for the hotel roof,
  • There’s a sophisticated heating and cooling system that lets the front desk adjust the temperature in individual rooms when a guest checks in or out, so unoccupied rooms are heated or cooled when nobody is using them,
  • The hotel’s Spa Anjali is Colorado’s first dedicated green spa, using only environmentally-friendly products and organic spa linens.

Full disclosure:  I’m visiting the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in January, 2010, and will share more news about this green hotel in Beaver Creek, Colorado.  Unless I’m too exhausted from pounding the powder on my skis.  Beaver Creek has a variety of terrain for all levels of skiing and snowboarding, and it’s a family-friendly resort.

The hotel also built its own Riverfront Express Gondola, to deliver guests and local residents to the Beaver Creek ski area in less than three minutes, which reduces car and shuttle bus traffic, noise and pollution.  And this gondola is free.

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