#Sustanibility

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Fairmont Royal York

Front street , Toronto Ontario

sustainability in Royal York

THE ZERO CARBON* CENTURY

In pursuit of zero carbon future, Fairmont Royal York has just completed the largest heritage hotel retrofit in North America – achieving a *Zero Carbon Building - Performance Standard™ certification by the Canada Green Building Council.

How they do it

Cooling is provided by cool water from deep in Lake Ontario, through connection to Toronto’s Deep Lake Water Cooling system, replacing centrifugal chillers. Heating and hot water comes from an electric heat pump installation plant; legacy steam systems have been decommissioned. Other innovations in energy management systems optimize efficiency. The project removes 80% of direct emissions from building operations (the remaining emissions will be addressed with offsets certified by Carbon Zero).

TACKLING FOOD WASTE WITH AI

Food waste is a massive issue – for our city, and our world. As much as one third of the food humans produce is never consumed. This waste accounts for up to 8% of global GHG emissions – four times as much as aviation. In travel and hospitality, the issue is particularly acute.

We are continually seeking out technology and operational solutions to reduce food waste – and we’re determined to lead our industry and our city on this issue.

SOCIAL IMPACT

The social dimension of sustainability is crucial. Ensuring that people have equal and just access to community opportunities, resources, and safe spaces to live and connect is paramount. Fairmont Royal York has renewed our commitment to social impact programs across the hotel, including:

* A progressive commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including a strong focus on developing and promoting women leaders

* Proud participation in LGBTQ+ cultural events at the hotel and across our city – and an active culture of inclusion and safety for both colleagues and guests

PURE & LOCAL: SOURCING FROM LAND AND SEA

Where we source our food matters immensely. For freshness and local character, on the one hand. And, much more, food sourcing has enormous impacts on ecosystem health, reduced emissions, and the communities of our local growers.

Fairmont Royal York draws from local, organic farms whenever possible. We focus our sourcing on producers within 100km of the hotel. All for pure cuisine, less waste, and the health of Ontario’s famed Golden Horseshoe agricultural region. 

CONFRONTING PLASTIC WASTE

Plastic waste is a prevalent and growing issue across the planet. Addressing plastics must be a priority for all those who lead our culture and economy. At Fairmont Royal York, we’re reducing plastic waste across our city landmark, with:

* The elimination of single-use plastics across the guest experience

* Tracking plastic waste and managing recycling more efficiently with Oscar Sort at key touchpoints in the service cycle

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a 15 minute break

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Today is the first day of spring. It is a full moon and the first clear night since the start of winter. Time to plan your native flower pollinator garden.

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Sometime kurogiri’s programming falters, this time it did on Tomura’s birthday, AFO didn’t catch him till after the pastry

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gimme more dragon age news please

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Here we have Magolor with his lil brother Magolor

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FROM THE TOWER WINDOW

And now within the old gray tower We've climbed the winding stair, And look out over all the earth From the topmost window there. Far stretches all the world away, And naught shuts out the sky, And knights and maids and all of life Go marching, marching by. -Excerpt from My Bookhouse From The Tower Window A remade Junk Journal from an old discarded book destined for the bin.

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[spotforme]

oh i feel awful, some men just came and took away our useless furniture and i couldn't offer them anything to eat or drink. i had no chokolate, no coffee, no bottled tea, no cookies, no pies, nothing to offer. they were really nice and i paid them and all but fuck i should've planned this better i should have had something to give them i feel so bad.

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Silly boy man sketch

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[thestudentfarmer]

Hello everyone!

A lil garden walk through and some updates :)

We'll start with the armenian cucumbers.

I'm hoping they'll pick up soon, but I may just need to do another direct seeding. A few sunflowers have self seeded and a carrot too,.

The patch I though was chamomile turned out to not be chamomile. Instead it turned out to be stinknet, it is considered an invasive weed here and has no current use to native species or humans (as far a si could find) so I pulled it and gave it to the chickens.

It looks very bare now 😭 I'll be building a small raised bed in this space and adding soil, once I've done that I intend to grow an edible herb of some sort here.

The nasturtium is doing really good,

I intend to have another human and chicken harvest this week from them. They look a little wilty as it was warmer than it's been the last few weeks I also want to collect a small pint jar of the immature pods to try and turn into pickled capers :)

The broccoli are starting to get dried pods so I've been snagging them as I see the ripen or the birds start really cracking at them.

By the white arrow is the eggplants, which I believe I shall be pulling these ones and planting carrot seed here soon (after I trim down the seeding broccoli a bit)

The few carrot left arr still growing okay, but I think they are going to be spent very soon. Right now they've been more to keep ground cover around the tomatoes while they grow.

And a suprise sunflower sprouted among them, there is already flowers and even 1 tiny tomato!!!

An overview all of the current end row.

Sunflowers coming in too :)

And in exciting news~

We'll be working on extending the garden too. The tarps worked great to kill of the bad grass and keep it gone. I won't be digging the beds up for this one, instead I'll be doing a few raisedwooden beds.

That's it for now :)

🌱🌻Happy Homesteading and Urban gardening!🌻🌱

4.7 2024

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Anybody else monch on a tortilla while trying to figure out whatever the fuck to actually eat?