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Atmosphere Hospitality Management LLC has assumed the management and license contract of a former downtown Rapid City branded hotel and has plans to convert it to the first Adoba Eco Hotel.

'It just happened that way,' says Hema Patel, in regard to her company’s Holiday Inn & Suites Columbia-Airport opening on Earth Day 2010. Planned or not, it certainly was appropriate that the six-story, 181-room hotel opened on a day that recognizes the birth of the modern day environmental movement.

Items that plug into the walls of your hotel using a three-pronged plug can eat up energy in three ways: while operating, while using standby power, or even while they are off. Yes, some electronic devices draw some power even when they are turned off.

Some important project details are currently confidential - the name of the owner and developer, for example - but information released by Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture + Design indicates that a 244-room, 440-foot high hotel is in the pipeline for the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.

The number of hotels asking guests to pay more for rooms with filtered air is on the rise with the continued growth of PURE Solutions’ PURE Room program and the recent introduction of UV Flu Technology’s ABC 'Purity +' Rooms.

The faucets go by a number of different names - hands free, electronic, touchless, sensor - but they are all geared toward improving hygiene, simplifying cleaning and maintenance, and conserving water and energy.

Even though it is based in California and funded by California rate payers through Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the Food Service Technology Center (FSTC) offers a wealth of information for any commercial food service operation.

Charter House Innovations (CHi) has opened its second green CityFlats Hotel - this time in the heart of Grand Rapids, Mich. The Holland, Mich.-based company, which also manufactures sustainable furniture, is pursuing LEED for New Construction certification at the Gold level for the 28-room property.

The carbon footprint of single-use plastic and glass bottled water containers is huge. Consider the raw materials that go into the bottles, the manufacturing of the bottles themselves, the transportation of the bottles and finally, their disposal (only 20 percent of plastic bottles and 28 percent of glass bottles are ever recycled).

For the last year and a half, drivers motoring down Route 55 in Vineland, N.J., have been met with a surprising site - a 2,500-solar panel installation behind the Ramada Vineland.