Don’t Just be LEED; LEAD!
Aug 05, 2009
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Dear Pasadena Convention Center,
Thank you for being a great conference venue during a recent event I had attended. You are located right in the middle of what’s fantastic about Pasadena, and I love the fact that you are walking distance from two Gold Line Stations. During the conference, however, I noticed some slips that you should sort out if you really want to be a “green” facility:
- In the foyer, you have huge windows that let in natural sunlight, which should be a no-brainer in Southern California. So why did you leave on all those lights during the day, especially during those hot San Gabriel Valley afternoons?
- The no-flush urinals in the men’s room are a great start. How about adding those turbo-charged hand driers so there isn’t so much waste from paper towels? Talk to the folks at Dodger Stadium.
- Shouldn’t there have been more recycling bins throughout the entire facility, including those for paper?
- Why not have pitchers of water instead of using those electric water filters (do you change those filters?), and ditch the plastic cups. It’s better to wash instead of waste. And those corn-based plastic cups really don’t solve the problem: not everyone will compost them and they won’t mix with petroleum-based plastics.
- It’s difficult to cook for 500 people. BUT serving hormone-laden chicken for one lunch and then farmed salmon another rankled many conference attendees.
