MADISON, WIS—On the one-year anniversary of the company’s Project Green Wolf, Great Wolf Resorts, Inc., North America’s largest family of indoor waterpark resorts, continues to celebrate its distinction as the first and only national hotel chain to have all properties achieve the Green Seal certification—Silver for the lodging portion of its 10 Great Wolf Lodge brand resorts and its Blue Harbor Resort & Conference Center in the United States. Additionally, Great Wolf Lodge—Niagara Falls received a four leaf Green Leaf Eco-Rating from the Audubon Green Leaf Eco-Rating Program in Canada. In 2007, Great Wolf Resorts started reducing energy and water...

FRANKLIN, TENN.—Leak Beeper has introduced a wireless version of their patented, toilet-leak detection device. The new Leak Beeper incorporates a Synapse RF engine and network operating system to report leak indications, wirelessly and directly, to a maintenance engineer’s computer via a mesh network. The new wireless device provides a user-friendly way to proactively address toilet leaks and significantly reduce water consumption and costs. The Leak Beeper is a device that detects all of the leaks possible in a toilet’s water tank. Use of the Leak Beeper has reduced water consumption and costs by an average of 28 percent at major hotels...

MCLEAN, VA.—Following two years of testing, Hilton Worldwide has unveiled LightStay, a proprietary system developed to calculate and analyze environmental impact. In the first full year of findings, the 2009 LightStay results show that the 1,300 Hilton Worldwide properties using the system conserved enough energy to power 5,700 homes for a year, saved enough water to fill more than 650 Olympic-size pools and reduced carbon output equivalent to taking 34,865 cars off the road. Reductions in water and energy use also translated into dollars saved for hotel owners, with estimated savings of more than $29 million in utility costs...

BRADENTON, FLA.—At a time when energy costs have reached an all time high, savvy hotel and condo owners are finding highly effective ways to conserve energy and save money. By installing constant airflow regulators in bathroom and kitchen exhaust vents, owners and operators are able to accurately and automatically control the amount of heated or conditioned air that is constantly blown out of their buildings. While having the airflow automatically regulated improves the indoor air quality and enables the use of smaller high-efficiency fans, the greatest savings comes from the reduced load on a facility’s heating and cooling systems. Constant...

HILLSDALE, MICH.—Alsons Corp., a leading manufacturer of distinctively-styled shower products, has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its WaterSense program. Alsons announced that 40 of its shower head and hand shower SKUs have received the new WaterSense certification. The WaterSense label provides trade professionals and consumers with the assurance that select shower heads and hand showers are at least 20 percent more water-efficient than the current federal standard of 2.5 gallons per minute (gpm), flowing at a pressure of 80 pounds per square inch (psi). To receive the label, qualified shower heads and hand showers must be...

NATIONAL REPORT—Any discussion about green cleaning today should include the ways that water—plain old H2O—is being used to replace the toxic chemicals that cleaning and maintenance personnel have had to work with for decades. Cold water poured straight from the tap and used in that state is not going to clean much but if heated to a high temperature, ionized or infused with an extra oxygen atom, it can be just as effective or more effective at cleaning than the harshest chemicals. Many vendors now offer cleaning products that rely solely on water for cleaning. Some products are available...

AUBURN, N.H.—Aquawing Ozone Injection Systems (AWOIS) LLC, Auburn, N.H., recently unveiled a new website that includes educational information pertaining to ozone laundry systems, research, product information, customer testimonials and environmental benefits. AWOIS is a manufacturer of ozone laundry systems focused on improving laundry processes, conserving natural resources and reducing negative effects of laundry processing on the environment. The company’s Aquawing Variable Ozone laundry systems are in place at hundreds of hotels, nursing homes, hospitals, on-premise laundries and correctional facilities across North America. “Many people don’t fully realize the benefits of ozone laundry systems,” said Brett Daniels, vice president of AWOIS....

SOUTH EGREMONT, MASS.—Monarch Bath, Bed & Spa, a leading global provider of bathrobes and luxury hotel linens, announced the introduction of MONARCH ECO, a new line of hotel linens designed to conserve water and reduce energy costs in the laundry operation, while maximizing comfort and durability. “Our experience tells us that hoteliers are primarily concerned with guests’ perceptions, the product’s life cycle and energy usage when considering linen purchases,” said Gene Faul, CEO of Monarch Bath, Bed & Spa. “With our Eco line, it is no longer necessary to choose between luxury, durability and energy efficiency. Our Monarch Eco towels...

CLEVELAND, OHIO—Hasek Communications, the Cleveland, Ohio-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes Pellerin Milnor Corp. as a Green Product & Service Directory Partner. The company is a manufacturer of washer-extractors, dryers, coin-operated washers and dryers, batch washers, and extraction systems. The company also offers the Mildata Computer Management System which provides central programming capabilities, data reporting and production monitoring. Pellerin Milnor’s V-Series washer-extractors now feature the new RinSave water saver that eliminates unnecessary rinses. This process allows a precise high G-Force to “sling” the wash liquor out of the goods between the last wash step and following rinse cycle, conserving...

FRANKLIN PARK, ILL.—Sloan Valve Company recently released a hardwire version of its popular electronic Sloan ECOS dual-flush Flushometer, which uses 30 percent less water when its reduced flush cycle is activated. The six-volt AC-powered Sloan ECOS features two manual “courtesy flush” buttons on top of the valve, which offer restroom users two water-efficient flush options: push the small green button for a reduced flush of 1.1 gallons of water for liquids, or push the large chrome button to initiate a full flush of 1.6 gallons per flush to remove solids. If the user does not depress a button, the Flushometer’s Smart...