Sustainable Actions
Be active, feel positive
1. Engage our Guests
Goals
- Ensure our guests enjoy a more responsible hotel experience
- Interact with guests and reinforce the positive impact of our Be active, Feel positive program
- Reinforce guests participation in local activities
- Give information to guests "How can you help?"
Actions
- Forest day/ Reforestation Program: Endemic species planted by our guests every year
- 1€ check out campaign: benefiting a local association (check the information on the flyer in your room, you can make a difference!)
- Reuse Beach Towel and linen program: In order to reduce water and chemicals usage
- Morning Jogging in a closeby levada
- Local Tours: Get to know our culture and traditions.
- Interactiv TV System in the room: Paper less information. You can access all the Resort useful information through your TV in the room.
- Christmas Celebrations: collecting gifts to donate to institutions.
- World Environment Day: Ocean and beach cleaning activities in order to protect our Nature Reserve.
2. Transform our employees in our true Ambassadors
Goals
- Empower people, encourage talent and creativity
- Promote our employees wellbeing and balance
- Reinforce the urgency of a sustainable attittude
- Stimulate Capacities
Actions
- Employee of the month: recognition of work quality and attittude standards
- Welllness Week: 150 employees| 5 days of workshops, wellness activities, healthy food during working schedule, fitness activities, free access to gym facilities
- Continuous training: Environmental good practices, labor standards, security/fire, specific training per working area, food safety
- Employees reusable water bottle: Each employee has his own bottle of water to refill
- Bottle Caps: We collect plastic bottle caps in order to help social institutions
- Christmas celebration: Colecting gifts for social institutions (Tree Wishes in Galosol Hotel Lobby)
- Access to the gym facilities: Affordable rates specially for employees
3. Work with the Community
Goals
- Care for the most vulnerable
- Protect local ecosystema
- Foster sustainable social/ economic development and support the community
- Promote community involvement in the resort actions
Actions
- Help the Caniço County to promote and recover the levadas
- 1€ check out campaign: benefiting a local association (check the information on the flyer in your room, you can make a difference!)
- Donating 10 meals per day (from Monday to Friday) to local associations
- Training program for local schools students
- Help the local animal associations
- Internship programs (to admit international and local students)
- Protecting the Underwater Nature Reserve of Garajau
- Helping local institutions with goods and supplies: matteresses, blankets, clothes, kitchen material
- World food day celebration: Food donation
- Support local activities and events: Madeira Folklore; Wine festival; Onion Festival...
- Social and environmental partnerships. Our Partners: Madeira Natural Park (Nature protection Institution) | C.A.S.A. (Local Homeless assocation) | Abraço (Portuguese HIV ad association)
4. Partners and Suppliers (Maintaining long and positive relations)
Goals
- Extend our social and environmental commitments to our partners and suppliers
- Engage them in our progress and raise standards all along our value chain
Actions
- Montly partners an suppliers meetings:
- Reinforce shared values / Discuss and align our goals
- Engaging partners and suppliers in our actions
- Help the Resort Causes
5. Food: Healthy and Sustainable Diet & Reducing Waste
Goals
- Offer our guests healthy and sustainable food options
- Reduce food waste
- Raise awareness of guests for food waste
Actions
- Buy local and seasonal
- Promote seasonal and local products (wine tasting, offering local food at our restaurants)
- Using our kitchen garden products (salsa, mint, courgette, tomato, passion fruit, coriander, sweet potato, onion and more)
- Reduce food waste while helping people: donating food
- Share our sustainable policies
6. Reduce Resources
Goals
- Optimize the use of natural resources
- Choose sustainability
- Increase the production and use of clean energy resources
Actions
Energy
- We have electronic keys in the rooms
- We use economic lights
- We use renewable-energy – solar panels for water heating and photovoltaic panels to produce energy;
- We have save 23% of gas consumption due to the use of solar panels
- Reduction of fossil fuels help us reduce our ecologic footprint
- All plumbing is insulated to prevent heat loss;
- We have motion sensors in the busiest areas
- Our rooms have air conditioning sensors. When the windows are opened the AC turn off.
Water
- We analyze periodically the water
- We use flow redactors in our taps
- Double flushing / toilet watertank
- Use mountain water to irrigate gardens
- We control irrigation by timers and humidity sensors
- We have a daily water consumption control
- In our gym and cafeteria we use water filters avoiding consuming bottled water
- Beach towel and linen reuse program
Paper
- We use recycled paper;
- Used paper is reused as draft paper;
- We reuse old towels for cleaning;
- Our toners, lamps and batteries are sent to recycling;
- Our hotel has in all rooms and public areas waste separation points;
- We compact our waste;
- We work with returnable packaging;
7. Protect the Environment
Goals
- Reduce plastic waste
- Reduce sea and soil waste
- Reinforce the positive impact of our program
- Ensure the preservation of Nature Reserve of Garajau and local nature
Actions
- Forest day celebration
- Plant Madeira's endemic plants
- Madeira Natural Park partnership - Life Madeira Lobo Marinho Project
- Raise community and guests awareness to preserve and protect nature: beach cleaning actions, ocean cleaning (Manta Diving Madeira) waste sorting, local biodeversity information
- Kids Club - children's education and awareness for environmental problems