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Review: The Future of Sustainable Luxury Hotels
But in Burlington, Vermont, people have been at the sustainable game a bit longer than most, and with the city’s newest high-end hotel, opened in 2013, they’ve set a benchmark for what an environmentally conscious, locally focused, high-end lodging can be.
As an environmentally conscious liberal who has composted since college, drove a Prius in SF, feels guilty with a five-minute shower, bike commutes from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and takes his reusable bags to the farmer’s market, I think there are two critical downsides to the eco-hotel: it induces guilt when indulgence is desired and it’s almost always an aesthetic step down from comparable boutique hotels.