1. Statewide Green Lodging Contract

2. Statewide Green Lodging Contract
February CIWMB approved the Statewide Green Lodging Contract for Phase I work for a total of $30,000.
AB498 – CalEPA in consultation with DGS to improve Environmentally Preferable Purchasing in State Agencies

3. Statewide Green Lodging Contract
Governor’s Executive Order D Blueprint for Sustainable State Facilities (Dec. 2001)
Government can promote more sustainable lodging facilities in the state through its own travel business by strongly encouraging State employees to stand and hold meetings at hotels that are environmentally responsible.

4. Statewide Green Lodging Contract
Average 150 room hotel in California
purchases more goods in one week than
100 families purchase in one year. =

5. Goals To define the environmental standard for lodging
properties in California.
The standard includes seven major facility categories.
Waste minimization
Reuse + recycling
Energy efficiency, conservation and management *
Waste water management
* Most attractive to hotel owners

6. Goals Management of freshwater resources Hazardous substances
Environmentally and socially sensitive purchasing policies

7. Survey
Contractor will conduct a survey to determine extent to which hotels in selected parts of California can be described as green properties.
Survey will explain importance of project to State and the hotel industry.
Screen questions for qualified participants
(General questions about property size)
Screening questions for identifying green practices.

8. Survey Results of survey will be used to:
Identify the extent to which the hotels use conservation and recycling practices.
Develop a continuum on which the hotels can be placed.
Descriptive data from survey will be used in conjunction with Green Seal’s standard to develop criteria and a rating system to select hotels for field audit.
Approximately 30 hotels will be selected for audit.

9. Field Audit Conducted in two metropolitan areas in California.
Criteria in checklist format
Purpose of audit is to determine the extent to which the hotels measure up to State standards.
Field Audit results will provide updated information to the Department of General Services travel website for State employees to utilize.

10. Marketing
Contractor will develop methods for marketing green lodging to state employees
Challenges:
State employees traveling on state business, are not mandated to stay at green lodging facilities.
Revenue generating incentives (i.e., increased “heads in beds”) do not currently exist for hotels to become green.

11. Marketing Challenges:
A marketing scheme to encourage hotels to become green does not exist.
A marketing awareness campaign, targeted at state employees, does not exist.
Fiscally challenging times, hard to introduce new program.

12. Cover letter Cover letter explains survey.
Co-signed by California Motel and Lodging Association
Clean up misconceptions that green programs increase costs while compromising quality, and that guests simply do not want it.
In many cases environmental technologies cost a little more, but that absolutely pay for themselves.

13. Contact information
Roberta Kunisaki
Senior Integrated Waste Management Specialist
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95812
(916)