Do you want to make sure your holiday has a positive impact on the rest of the world? Do you want your chosen B&B, hotel or holiday cottage to be as green as you are at home? Do you want to support local food producers from the area you are staying in? Well, now you can.
Our Ethical Collection is made up of owners who have worked hard to make sure their business has a positive impact. Hard enough, we feel, to earn one or more of our three stamps:
ENVIRONMENT: awarded to owners working hard to reduce the environmental footprint of their place to stay.
COMMUNITY: awarded to owners using their business to make significant contributions to their local community.
FOOD: awarded to owners with a proven passion for serving local and organic food.
You can single out Ethical Collection places on our interactive maps and search pages. You can also limit any website searches to places that are part of the Collection.
We have a fantastic set of places in our Ethical Collection, including high-tech buildings with grass roofs and solar hot water, organic small holdings and owners who make their own natural cleaning products. To start exploring the Collection go to our search pages »
Our Green Places to Stay book, published in 2006, is full of the best eco places, from beach huts to eco chic hotels. And look out for our Green Europe book, which will be published in early 2009. To find out when new books are released, and to receive special offers, sign up to our monthly newsletter. No unsolicited emails, we promise!
We also produce the Fragile Earth series of books. Highlighting the perilous state of our world yet offering imaginative and radical solutions and some intriguing facts, these books will make you weep and smile. They are regularly revised, keeping you up to date and well armed for the battle with apathy.
Did you know that one of our company cars runs on recycled chip fat? Or that we built our own award-winning eco-offices? To find out more about Alastair Sawday's ethos and our efforts to run a responsible business, please read more about us »
To read our Frequently Asked Questions on the Ethical Collection, please visit our FAQ section »
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