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Find a green hotel in the San Francisco Bay Area

Next time you visit or have visitors coming to the San Francisco Bay Area, stay at a green hotel. What makes a green hotel? Top ten green hotel practices include:

Good Housekeeping and Pollution Prevention
1. Monitor, record and post rates of energy and water use.

2. Evaluate cleaners, sanitizers, paints, pesticides and other chemicals used throughout your facility.

Solid Waste Reduction
3. Buy recycled-content products for the office, construction and remodeling projects.
4. Buy in bulk, whether it’s guest amenities or food for the kitchen.
5. Start a recycling program for trash from guest rooms, the kitchen and your business office.
Encourage Green Practices in both Employees and Guests
6. Provide incentives to encourage staff participation in efforts to “green” the establishment.
7. Institute a linen reuse program in guestrooms.

Conserve Energy and Water
8. Install energy efficient lighting fixtures and bulbs, heating and air conditioning, washers and dryers, and other electrical equipment.
9. Install water conserving showerheads and toilets in guestrooms.

Minimize Food Waste
10. Donate leftover food, amenities and other “extras” to local shelters or other recipients.

Scroll down to see recommendations in the Bay Area from the Bay Area Green Business Program. Some of these hotels also serve organic food.

San Francisco
Courtyard by Marriott
Hotel Carlton
Hotel Monaco
Orchard Hotel
Prescott Hotel
Tuscan Inn

Marin County
Mountain Home Inn, Mill Valley
West Point Inn, Mill Valley
Inn Marin, Novato
Bear Valley Inn, Olema
Embassy Suites, San Rafael
Marin Headlands Hostel, Sausalito

South Bay
Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto
Hilton San Jose and Towers, San Jose

East Bay
Doubletree Hotel, Berkeley
Four Points by Sheraton, Emeryville
Fremont Marriott, Fremont
Courtyard by Marriott — Oakland Downtown
Oakland Marriott City Center
Wyndham Garden Hotel, Pleasanton

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