More Proof Green Movement is a Religion
My brother sent this along. For earth worshipers, the green movement is a government-sanctioned religious movement. And their bible is apparently a copy of Al Gore’s Book, Inconvenient Truth. In hotels in San Francisco, the Gideon’s Bible is being thrown away and is being replaced by the eco-religionist’s bible.
From Bloomberg here:
Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won’t find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore’s book about global warming.
They’ll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper as it marches toward becoming California’s first hotel certified as “green,” or benevolent to the environment.
Wen-I Chang opened the 132-room Gaia in the town of American Canyon last year. He’s building other green hotels in Anderson and Merced and said he hopes to develop at least six more within three years.
Chang said he became an environmentalist in 1999, when he couldn’t get a glass of water at a restaurant in Santa Cruz, California, because of a shortage in the area.
“I started thinking that there are many ways I can save water,” said Chang, 62. “I changed my shower habit from eight minutes to two minutes.”
Then he changed his building habits, after 10 years of developing Holiday Inn and Hilton franchises. Chang said 43 cities have asked him to build green hotels. Some offer incentives to help cover construction costs, which were about 15 percent more for the Gaia. Chang said it’s saving 25 percent on electricity and almost 50 percent on water, which may enable the hotel to turn profitable next month.
Reviews for this hotel are not always favorable.
From the TripAdvisor here:
The overall theme of the hotel I adore. I’m into the green movement.
I booked two rooms for myself and an out of state client. He stayed on the upper floor in an extended king and had no complaints. I stayed in a basic king on the lower floor and was rudely woken up at 6am the next morning from the guest (contractor/worker) that was staying in the room next door. I even wear ear plugs. The walls are not properly insulated for sound. You can hear the telephone ring in the room next door.
Even thought the hotel had only a handful of guest I was irritated that hotel management stuck a bunch of guests side by side in the back of the hotel. We could have been easily separated between empty rooms to insulate us from noise.
While the carpets and room colors are beautiful the construction behind the paint and carpet lacks integrity.
Maybe in a socialist paradise, businessmen don’t have to turn a profit. But “green” buildings are expensive, inefficient, and ugly. Probably dangerous too. Smart businessmen will invest wisely in this country and use affordable, traditional materials in construction.
And why can’t a Gideon Bible live in a so-called “green” hotel? I think its because eco-religionists and followers of the green movement don’t want to be reminded that the Earth is not the real God.
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