The World's First Net Zero Ho(me)tel

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You love to travel. You know that travel can be a force for good but you also know that it is contributing to environmental challenges which will affect our future generations. We get it. You feel conflicted and guilty and so do we!

But there is hope. That’s why we created this podcast; to help you to understand both the issues and the opportunities around travel so that we can all be better informed about the good, the bad and the downright ugly in travel.

Each week, we speak to prominent leaders in the global travel industry to learn their thoughts, insights and opinions as to how we can all travel a little better so that future generations can also have hope for a better future.

Oh, and if you’re looking for environmental doom and gloom, look elsewhere. We are realistic about the climate crisis but we are here to offer hope and optimism. Every small step forward, is a giant stride, when we all step together.

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Melissa Gooding, the Sustainability & Communications Specialist talks about the philosophy behind Room2, what the quick wins were, and what’s next on their journey.

Welcome to the Climate Friendly Travel Podcast! Where each episode, we speak to the great and the good of the global travel and tourism industry to learn more about what they are doing to ensure that the principles of climate friendly travel are being advanced.

Today I’m delighted to be joined by Melissa Gooding who is the Sustainability & Communications Specialist at the Lamington Group which operates the world’s first fully net zero ho(me)tel.

Sustainability has been included throughout room2 Chiswick to enhance and protect the environment we operate in. They have done the hard work with no compromises on quality or comfort, so that the guests which stay can be proud to be supporting the shift to a greener future. Taking care of local communities extends to the global communities, by tackling the world’s biggest threat, climate change. Room2 Chiswick has set a new industry standard, to be 100% net zero carbon from the construction, operation and eventual deconstruction of the entire building and operation.

In this episode I speak to Melissa about the philosophy behind Room2, what the quick wins were, what’s next on their journey and we even spoke about climate change anxiety – something which is increasingly affecting us all.

And if you’d like to learn more about Room2 Chiswick, I highly recommend you visit their website at room2.com where you can also find the link to the video of Robert at the bamboo carbon off-setting project – it’s well worth a watch.

And you can join Melissa, Room2 Chiswick and hundreds more like-minded travel businesses and individuals by joining Climate Friendly Travel and indeed becoming an ambassador by signing up free of charge to join The SunX Registry at , climatefriendly.travel or email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Remember, when it comes to Climate Friendly Travel, every small step forward, is giant stride when we all step together…