Carbon Footprint

Why are we different here?

Well because whether you come for a relaxing weekend, to celebrate your wedding, or conduct your business gathering, you will do it in the greatest style whilst reducing your carbon footprint to have the smallest impact possible. We are working hard here to create, on a small scale, a way of living by respecting the environment. The hotel was conceived as an ecological venture to protct the wonderful landscape around us and to minimize our impact on the environment. Whenever possible, building materials found on site were used-sacks filled compressed earth, rock, stone, and thatch, as well as recyycled bottles, old doors, windows and fittings from demolished houses, recylced tiles, etc. Our water system was designed so that grey water can be used for the garden, and our septic tanks also have an environmentally friendly design. Here at IslaVerde we utilize sustainable solar energy to provide our guests with hot water and elecricity. We have several solar panels that generate  energy which heat our water tanks and provide water to each of our cabins. Electricity in our cabins is also solar powered. In our day-to-day functioning, we are following the same ethos by making compost for our garden with organic waste and recycling the rest into building materials. Along with many other eco-friendly ways involved wiht daily functioning of our hotel, IslaVerde is a place where all of us are able enjoy ourselves while making the smallest carbon footprint possible.

Being a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain, I read all his books and follow his tv show with great interest. In his latest episode he travels to Dubai and goes skiing…. indoors! Although I have always wanted to go there and even maybe try the indoor skiing (because I love to ski), it struck me that this a place that is exactly the opposite of what we are trying to do here at IslaVerde. In Dubai they build the most extreme buildings possible, set records left and right with the amount of money and supplies going into these places, and seem to have little care about the impact they make on their environment. Even Anthony Bourdain notes that Dubai has, “the largest carbon footprint per person of any place on earth.”

Although we are very bothered by their ways and methods there… I must say it is very innovative and impressive at the same time.