Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater risk than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unparalleled opportunity lies at Mount Lavinia Hotel to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future, in a small contribution yet with a big heart.
The Hotel has taken some big steps into becoming a green business and continuously supports initiatives that focus on environmentally sustainable development strategies. Some of the initiatives taken are participating in the earth hour where one hour was dedicated to a climate change initiative, biocides being used across the hotel instead of pesticides, eco gastronomy effortsgreen procurement mechanisms in stationery, energy saving projects, water consumption control efforts and many community development initiatives to sustain the communities and environment around us.
‘We at the hotel are celebrating this anniversary by launching a community concerned initiative on 22 April that gives back to the community that we take so much from.
” We are happy to partake in this worldwide campaign where we launch an initiative and join together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet’said GM Anura Dewapura.
“Kaduru” (bitternut: strychnos nuxvomica) grown on the river banks of Sri Lanka acts as a natural barrier to soil erosion.
These seeds are collected by the communities that live along the river banks and we in turn purchase them at the hotel and decorate our guest bathrooms and public area bathrooms. After the seeds give birth to the plants, they sprout a very attractive plant and hence they are ready for planting.
The hotel gives the plants back to the same communities and they plant them along the river banks to protect themselves from floods and soil erosion. The income they gain from this project is used to assist their school going children.
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