YARDLEY, PA.—Lodging Media, the publisher of Lodging Magazine, will host the Lodging Green & Sustainability Conference & Expo to educate hotel owners, senior executives, general managers and facility managers on ways to make their hotel operations more sustainable on October 1 to 3, 2013 at the Omni Dallas. A discounted rate of $395 is available for conference attendees who register before August 30, 2013.
The conference will host more than 60 distinguished panelists and speakers, including hoteliers, business leaders, consultants, investors, and policymakers. The opening keynote speaker for the event is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who serves as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for the Riverkeeper, Inc. and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. Kennedy is also a clinical professor and supervising attorney at Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio.
The Omni Dallas was built to meet the U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold Certification standards, placing it on the forefront of environmental awareness and conservation in the city. The hotel’s sustainability highlights include the use of reclaimed timber and brick in the hotel’s restaurant, a 25,000-gallon cistern to reduce storm water run-off and capture water as a means of irrigation in lieu of city water, a rain garden, and solar reflective indexes in the roof. The 1,001-guestroom Omni is owned by the City of Dallas, and is connected to the adjacent convention center.
“We are very pleased that the Lodging Green Conference will be at the Omni Dallas Hotel,” said Omni Dallas general manager Larry Magor. “We recently received LEED Gold New Construction (NC) certification, making the Omni Dallas the largest LEED Gold hotel in the U.S. outside of Las Vegas and one of the only ones in the state of Texas. We are very proud of this distinction.”
Some of the More Than 60 Speakers
Event speakers include Faith Taylor, senior vice president Sustainability and Innovation, Wyndham Worldwide, Scott Parisi, president of EcoGreenHotel, Jason Kliwinski, LEED AP and founder and president of Designs for Life, Glenn Hasek, publisher and editor of Green Lodging News, and Karena Albers and Jenifer Willig, co-founders of Whole World Water.
“We are very excited about the level of enthusiasm we have received from speakers, sponsors and attendees for this unique conference,” said Bill Corsini, publisher of Lodging Magazine. “We look forward to bringing together the many hotel property owners, general managers and facility engineers into a substantive discussion of real-world green strategies and solutions within the hospitality industry today.”
Panel topics include: Sustainable Design and Construction; Marketing Sustainable Properties to Guests; Sustainable Supply Management; Best Practices in Carbon Measurement and Tracking; The Ins and Outs of Energy and Water Efficiency Audits; Federal, State and Municipal Mandates; and Buying (and Selling) Sustainable Properties.
Sponsors and exhibitors for the conference include: EcoGreenHotel, Vivreau, the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, Cicero’s Development Corp., Gold Mobile, Panasonic Vents, SAI, ClearWater Tech, MindClick, VingCard, Grainger, Carrier Enterprise Corp., VingCard Elsafe, Benchmarx, Philips Lighting, Mitsubishi HVAC and Green Lodging News.
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