Active Ecotours

Active Ecotours: environmental educational tour

"Experience a real connection with nature"

We are a fully insured business and am offering a tour  that will help people to connect to the environment and realise the benefits of looking after it.

We offer corporate, family and backpacker packages. Please see our website for more details at: http://activeecotours.com.au

Visit online at http://activeecotours.com.au/.

Alto Hotel


Prior to certification, Alto Hotel had already committed to reducing their carbon footprint through offsetting emissions from electricity usage, fuel and flights directly with their service providers. NoCO2 certification furthers the hotel's strong commitment to sustainability and demonstrates ongoing efforts to contribute to a healthier environment.  

The Alto Hotel on Bourke has enhanced its reputation as one of Melbourne's leading hotels in guest satisfaction as well as innovation by becoming the Australia's first carbon neutral hotel. Some food & beverage style hotels, cabins and cottages have offset carbon from some of their services or provide an option for guests to pay for offsets, however Alto is the first city hotel to provide all of its services and facilities as carbon neutral within its pricing.

The Alto Hotel is a leader in sustainable tourism

"We have already been recognised as a leader in sustainable tourism yet wanted to ensure we continue to innovate and show that it is possible to have guilt free travel without compromising on quality or service," said Gary Stickland, General Manager of Alto Hotel on Bourke."Instead of simply paying someone to make our environmental footprint go away we have ensured that we have minimised our output as much as practical first, then made the decision to offset the remaining carbon that we have not been able to remove from our operations" he said. "All of our environmental initiatives have been made by considering our guests first. This means that some guests are not even aware that they have stayed in a sustainable hotel as we have designed our programs to effectively be behind the scenes and not require any effort from our guests, unless they want to be more involved." The hotel provides the key ingredient for the potential to have a low carbon holiday or business trip to Melbourne.

To achieve NoCO2 certification, Alto Hotel undertook a comprehensive carbon emissions audit that captured and quantified all of the hotel's greenhouse gas emissions. The audit included emissions from fuel and energy consumption onsite; staff travel, water and waste usage and flights taken by Alto Hotel staff. In addition, the embodied emissions in the hotel's assets and expenses items were also audited to capture indirect emissions from supply chain purchases and any products bought, used and sold through the hotel.



Visit online at http://www.altohotel.com.au/.

Box n Go

Like you we care for the environment. When you use Box n Go you’ll have the comfort of knowing our storage and moving services are carbon neutral.

Box n Go is an accredited carbon neutral business

Global warming is changing the way the world does business. Consumers are demanding low carbon products and services – we are proud that our Company, Box n Go, is certified NoC02.

Our NoC02 certification means that we have measured, reduced and offset our total greenhouse gas impact. The NoC02 certification means we are carbon neutral as we have negated all greenhouse emissions that occur as a consequence of our operation.

As a start-up, we purchase accredited carbon credits to offset the estimated emissions from the first 12 months of our operations. Furthermore, we report to the Carbon Reduction Institute each quarter on all of our directly controllable emissions, including flights, electricity consumption and waste. The emissions from these sources will then be offset each quarter. This is performed through CRI’s online emissions reporting portal.

To cover off on any uncertainties in this approach, we have agreed to have a full carbon audit encompassing the emissions from all purchases made as well as the emissions from staff travel and waste after completing 12 months worth of operations. Through execution of the agreement, Box n Go is liable to cover the shortfall between the amount offset and the amount emitted through the purchase of carbon credits, should the latter amount exceed the former.

Visit online at http://www.boxngo.com.au/.

City Move

Reliable removalists in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra

When moving in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra or Adelaide; it pays to use Citymove Removals. We are reliable and offer a fantastic and comprehensive service. Our removalists in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane can help with your relocation and make it a straightforward no-fuss experience – it doesn’t get any better than that.

We are Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra based removal experts offering more than a general relocation service; we also provide additional services to assist you with your moving requirements. This includes a packing service, storage options, extra packing materials for sale, a guarantee of quality, usable moving timeslots and a special “We break it, we fix it” guarantee.

Visit online at http://www.citymove.com.au/cms/removals/3560/local.aspx.

Coral Bay Ecotours

Coral Bay Ecotours are adventure tours of a totally different nature.

Known as Coral Bay's ecotourism specialists, Coral Bay Ecotours run tours such as:

• Coral viewing and snorkelling
• Wildlife Experiences
• 4 Wheel Bike Adventures

Coral Bay is approximately 1100km north of Perth, 250km north of Carnarvon, 550km south of Karratha and 150km south of Exmouth. Travelling to Western Australia from within Australia is easy. There are regular flights to Perth from all major Australian cities and from many regional locations within the State.

Visit online at http://www.coralbayecotours.com.au/.

Icetrek

Eric Philips is Icetrek's founder and manager. He has hard-earned expeditionary experience in the Arctic and Antarctica, having skied to both the North and South Poles numerous times as well as completing major expeditions to Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland, Ellesmere Island and the South Patagonian Icecap.

Eric is the inventor of Flexi Ski Bindings. Fast becoming the standard for the most demanding of polar expeditions, Flexi Ski Bindings have taken skiers to the ends of the Earth and across the world's icy wastes.  

Headed by Eric Philips, our network of world-class guides has skied to the North and South Poles, climbed Everest and traversed the world's largest icecaps. We have real expeditionary experience in wilderness extremes as diverse as Antarctica, Greenland, Patagonia, Alaska, Iceland, Siberia and the Canadian High Arctic and we can take you there. We also offer unique trekking expeditions to remote Australian deserts.

Visit online at http://www.icetrek.com/.

Mercure Meetings

Mercure Hotels offer quality 3.5-4 star accommodation to make your stay away from home as comfortable and convenient as possible.

Mercure is part of the Accor group, a European leader and major global player in travel, tourism and corporate services.

Mercure Hotels have engaged the Carbon Reduction Institute (CRI) to consult on the group’s Carbon Neutral conferencing program launched in 2008 – ‘Mercure Meetings’.  To enable Mercure Hotels to offset the emissions from their conferences, CRI provided the hotels with a conference calculator that takes into account emissions from energy usage such as heating, lighting and cooking; as well as food and stationery provided at the conferences.

Providing those calculators will give the Mercure Hotels a significant competitive edge over other, emissions intensive conference venue providers.

Visit online at http://www.accorhotels.com.au/mercuremeetings/default.aspx.

Mercure Meetings New Zealand

MERCURE MEETINGS – CARBON NEUTRAL OFFERING

The Carbon Reduction Institute is proud to partner with Mercure in New Zealand for the first nation-wide carbon neutral meeting offering from a major hotel chain.

The Mercure Meetings offering is specifically designed to measure and offset the greenhouse gas footprint produced by each meeting service. Each Mercure hotel then funds the cost of the offsets and will not pass them on to you.

The Carbon Reduction Institute in conjunction with Mercure calculates the emissions from the following:

                - energy used to heat, cool and ventilate the venue

- electricity consumed by lighting and AV equipment used

- emissions embodied in the food and beverage packages supplied for the event

The emissions from these services are calculated based on the running sheet of the event using published life cycle data, an input/output analysis of the New Zealand economy and emission factors provided by industry bodies, universities and the Ministry for the Environment. These emissions are then offset using carbon credits that are certified under the internationally recognised Voluntary Carbon Standard.

Currently the offsets will be funding the ‘Household Energy Efficient Lighting Project’ (HELP), implemented by Energy Mad (a New Zealand based company). With the aim to lessen climate change through economical energy savings, Energy Mad have partnered with electricity networks and retail outlets encouraging consumers to purchase the Ecobulb (Australasia’s highest performance energy saving bulb) at a heavily discounted rate. By installing Ecobulbs to replace incandescent light bulbs, the initiative leads to a direct reduction in fossil fuel electricity generation and reduces consumer’s electricity bills and wastage in our landfills.

What is not included in the emissions calculation is the travel by attendees to get to and from the event as well as any material brought in by the event organisers. The emissions from these sources are often the largest contributor to the total emission of an event, therefore the total event should not be referred to as carbon neutral unless these emissions have been calculated and offset.

* Mercure Meetings is not offered by Mercure Dunedin Leisure Lodge

Visit online at http://www.mercuremeetings.co.nz/.

Sane Event Group

Established in 1998, Sane will be celebrating our 12th Year Anniversary in 2010 and continue to grow from strength to strength with a core team of 13 staff underpinning our service capabilities.

Our re-branding in 2009 to the Sane Event Group marks the evolution of Sane from a logistics services organisation, into a streamlined provider of marketing, technology, creative and travel solutions offering a variety of event management services.

[Download Sane Events Case Study Here]

Visit online at http://www.saneevent.com.au.

The Observatory

The Observatory Resort Hotel - Port Macquarie's best address - opened in 2004. Located above green parklands overlooking Port Macquarie's magnificent main beach, Town Beach, it features 88 deluxe apartments in a range of configurations over its seven storeys, and beautiful ocean views.

The Observatory has been accorded multiple awards for hospitality and tourism excellence, among them by Mid-north Coast Tourism, NSW Tourism and the Hotel Motel Accommodation Association of Australia and in the National Customer Service Awards.

The Observatory warmly welcomes guests visiting for business, conferences, tours and independent leisure to its centrally located spacious accommodation with state of the art appointments, premium restaurant and spa facilities and luxurious all-weather swimming pool.

Visit online at http://www.observatory.net.au/.