EARTH’S LUXURY ECO PLACES TO STAY
When staying at home, all of us think where when traveling next, once when this sojourn is over, and we can breathe the fresh air again. However, some of the destinations we highlight are the next accommodation providers that take sustainability seriously in design and construction and their daily practices.
Kasiiya Tented Camp, Costa Rica
The Kasiiya Tented Camp property was opened last year and was created with near-zero impact on the environment. The forest and wildlife have the priority here as well as each of the five tents is environmentally sustainable, based on timber platforms, built from natural materials, and the surrounding flora is impacted on this incredible landscape in Papagayo.
Emirates One & Only Wolgan Valley, Australia
The One & Only is carbon neutral, recycles extensively, minimizes waste, has halved energy consumption since opening and sources local, organic produce for your food enjoyment. It aims to return the surrounding landscape prior to European settlement in the early 1800s.
Six Senses, Fiji
A brand new resort, Six Senses Fiji, went beyond the limits in sustainability programs. Conserving energy and rainwater for the long term, make their delicious drinking water in a reverse osmosis plant.
Producing their food organically, off-grid solar installations using Tesla battery packs in the Southern Hemisphere, they use energy from the sun to power the resort, and the excess power is used for the desalination plant.
The resort is home to 17 Fijian crested iguanas, a critically endangered species with less than 5000 remaining in the world.
Taking a further step up in responsibility, it offers development programs to high potential Fijians, working with several cottage industries to support the local economy. The resort collaborates with Rise Beyond the Reef, the NGO which works with women in remote communities, teaching them to create marketable goods using traditional skills. These goods are used in the villas and restaurants and are for sale in the resort boutique. The profit goes into alleviating poverty in the communities.
Sabi Sabi Earth and Bush Lodges, South Africa
Sabi Sabi Earth and Bush Lodges used environmentally-friendly materials. Bottled water is still used at the resort, the bottles are 100% recyclable and the unfinished bottles are used for laundry or watering plants.
A greywater system at Bush lodge recycles water from baths, basins, and showers, and it is used to irrigate the lodges. All wastewater is pumped into a series of gravitational dams, and with natural filtration process, it is deposit back into the underground river systems as pure water.
Soneva Kiri, Thailand
Soneva Kiri is a resort for families. Sustainable luxury-these words describe it. Soneva banned plastic straws a long time ago, the resort filters and mineralizes and bottles its own Soneva Drinking Water in reusable glass bottles. Raising around USD 90,000 every year, it funded over 500 clean water projects in more than 50 countries.
Using sustainable materials, recycling waste and preserving and protecting the ecosystem are part of their other initiatives.
So if you are up to an eco-friendly sustainable place to visit, whatever you choose, you are on the right track.
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