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“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” [source]. The hotel in question uses environmentally friendly measures in its operations such as waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper in its effort to become California’s first ever ‘green’ hotel. If I am not mistaken, Orchid Hotel in Bombay also calls itself as a eco-tel and this was before green became fashionable although I am not sure how green it really is.
If you want your guests to read environmentally-friendly literature, why not put the book on the desk rather than the nightstand where it might be ignored? The Bible can stay in its regular nightstand place and continue to be ignored whereas the Al Gore book can be placed in a more prominent place. The climate change issue is already too heavily politicized and maybe more than it should be. Such news only ends up obfuscating the real issue and focuses on the wrong things.
by Patrix | on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 at 7:00 pm | 
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May 2nd, 2007 at 9:40 pm reply
It should be placed under the hotel bed in such a way that it hurts you first thing after you turn off the light and prepare to sleep
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm reply
Some of the best reading gets done in the loo, so maybe thats where the book should be placed! :)
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:51 pm reply
Did you just mention my name in this post??….anyway, what I really wanted to say was people who chose that spa were already environmentally sensitive and didn’t need to read that book at all.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:47 pm reply
Ashutosh, ka re baba! Why are you making their hotel stay so torturous? :)
Perspective, considering you are producing bio-degradable products then, it makes sense :)But it is too heavy a book to just browse through while on the pot. Or maybe it just might make things easier. Ok! I’ll stop.
Orchid, are you green? I hope you are. BTW, this is the hotel I am talking about.
And you are right about preaching to the choir part. But then that’s the least they can do, right?
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:33 pm reply
Next up: All pay-per-view porn in hotel rooms will be replaced by “The Inconvenient Truth”
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:03 pm reply
Santosh, global warming or not, don’t mess with the porn industry. Otherwise they’ll make it hard for you, pun unintended :)
May 4th, 2007 at 8:27 am reply
If that happens - porn replaced by AL Gore’s movie - that will make travelling that much harder (pun intended) :-)