Doubletree Hotel San Jose Fireside Chat Show # 12

Weekly Fireside Chat with Carrie McAllen, Director of Business Development and Rob Balmer, General Manager discussing the latest news & events at the Doubletree Hotel San Jose and City of San Jose California.

Key Topics discussed:

Carrie was interviewed by CBS 5 Green Beat on our WeatherTrak Smart Irrigation Watering System for the hotels landscape. WeatherTrak is a product of Hydropoint.

Rob explains Hilton Family of Hotels sustainability goals which include: reduction of energy consumption by 20% reduction of Co2 emissions by 20% reduction of output waste by 20% and reduction of water consumption by 10%

Carrie discusses the City of San Jose’s Green Building Policy which establishes sustainability as a City priority and further demonstrates the City’s commitment to the environment. Sustainable or “green” building design, construction and maintenance has on both people and nature. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Center for Sustainable Development, buildings consume 40% of the world’s total energy, 25% of its wood harvest and 16% of its water.

CBS 5 Green Beat Interview on Doubletree Hotel San Jose

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Carrie McAllen, Director of Business Development for Doubletree Hotel San Jose talks to CBS about water conservation using Hydropoint’s WeatherTrak Water System. The results equate to: Water Reduction, energy reduction, water run off elimination and drought conservation. Good for us, great for our planet!

Click to watch the interview

Happy Earth Day!

More green facts from Doubletree Hotel San Jose:

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Doubletree Hotel San Jose is a member of the Hilton Family of Hotels, which has committed directionally to the following reductions within operations by 2014:
• We will reduce our energy consumption by 20%.
• We will reduce our Co2 emissions by 20%.
• We will reduce our output of waste by 20%.
• We will also reduce our water consumption by 10%.

We have implemented two huge water saving programs at our property this past year

The WeatherTrak Smart Water Management solution system monitors weather trends in our specific area such as humidity, cloud cover, rain and wind. It then electronically alters our water control system here on property via data line, thus only watering when necessary.

Doubletree Hotel San Jose was one of the first businesses to partner with Santa Clara Valley
Water District on their new water saving toilet installation program. The new toilets use 1.28 gallons per flush (gpf) compared to the old 3.5 gpf toilets. We have approximated that the program will save more than 10,800 gallons per day which comes out to 4,000,000 gallons per year. This is nearly equal to six Olympic-sized swimming pools!

Doubletree Saves Even More Water With WeatherTrak

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Water is becoming a precious resource more and more these days, recent research has shown that 58% of the U.S. urban water supply is applied to landscapes, which are over watered by 30-to-300%. This fact provides an immense area of opportunity for all to improve on conservation and green initiatives. We here at Doubletree Hotel San Jose decided to take action get our watering under control.

We have done so by installing the WeatherTrak Smart Water Management solution. The system monitors weather trends in our specific area and adjusts our landscape watering accordingly. Humidity, cloud cover, rain, wind and even plant needs are all factors it takes into consideration. It then electronically alters our water control system here on property via data line. The system has been proven to save four times more water than traditional conservation practices.

Doubletree Hotel San Jose is proud to be continuing our green efforts and taking action to reduce our carbon foot print. Be on the look out for even more green news throughout 2009!