The Seaport Hotel, 200 Seaport Drive, Boston, MA

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Seaport Hotel directly across the street from the Seaport World Trade Center for a special rate of $189/night (+tax) for single or double occupancy. To receive this rate, reservations must be made by February 18, 2011. Call 1-877-732-7678 today and request the group rate for NESEA or Building Energy 2011. For detailed information on the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, go to www.seaportboston.com.

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How NESEA helped Green the Seaport Hotel

After BE05, at NESEA's urging, the Seaport Hotel embarked upon an ambitious effort to green the facility. In the past four years, the program, "Seaport Saves," has successfully reduced the facility's electricity use by 14% by instituting a Smart Thermostat system in guest rooms and replacing 100% of its guest room and parking garage light bulbs with compact fluorescent lighting. Since 2006 it has recycled 530 tons of material. By 2008, Seaport diverted 43% of their waste from the landfill through recycling and composting programs (206 tons).

In response to NESEA's demand, Seaport was the first Hotel in Boston to institute an in-room recycling effort, and since then other Boston hotels have followed suit. It was also one of the first properties in Boston to provide allergy-friendly rooms for guests sensitive to irritants. After initially replacing all its chemical cleaners with natural cleaners, Seaport has since adopted electrolyzed water  (a chemical free cleaning system) in both its housekeeping and kitchen departments, placing it among the first five hotels in the US to do so. It is the first hotel in the United States to use Grander Water System.

In 2008, the Seaport Hotel began to use the Bio-EZ waste to water system and is the first location in New England to use such a system. Since 2006, the Seaport has collected waste cooking oil, and now the biodiesel it creates is utilized by the Hotel's diesel laundry truck - a true 360 degree story.

Improvements in 2009 include:

• Soap Donation through The Global Soap project.  Their first donation was just over 1 ton
• Retrofit of 1.6 gpf toilets with 1.28gpf.  They estimate a savings of 200,000 gallons of water annually.  They worked with IR Networks to repurpose 17.99 tons of toilets to Jamaica, Nicaragua and Haiti.
• In 2009, the Seaport Hotel received a 4 Green Key (out of 5)  Rating from GreenKey
  
• International Coastal Clean up Day - 9/19/09 - Seaport was part of the largest volunteer event of its kind on Saturday as 400,000 people from around the world cleaned up their respective shorelines.  In little over an hour and a half, hotel volunteers filled 20 garbage bags.  The volunteer effort was a simple but important gesture to give back to South Boston and show that they were more than a business in the neighborhood, but in fact part of the community.
• Key Cards are now made of 100% recycled material
• In November 2009, Seaport Hotel Boston won the 2009 EcoRace Recycling Challenge for Mixed-Use Buildings Under 500,000 Square Feet, as well as the 2009 EcoRace Innovation Award for Mixed-Use Multi-Buildings from the Boston chapter of the Building Owners and Management Association. 
  

In recognition of its efforts since 2005, the Seaport has been the recipient of several Boston Green Business Awards, the Mass Lodging Association Good Earth Keeping Award, and the DEP Waste Wise Innovation Award. It is listed on Forbes Traveler.com as one of the Greenest Hotels in the US. Seaport Green Resume

The impact of the electricity used at NESEA's BuildingEnergy10 was offset with clean wind power from Mass Energy and People's Power & Light's New England Wind Fund program.