North America's greenest hotel? It could be the Hotel de Glace, Quebec
by Heather Clancy | February 15, 2012 12:55pm PST | Image 1 of 13
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Open just three months every winter season, the Hotel de Glace is constructed entirely of snow and ice -- although wooden doors welcome visitors into the great hall. (The frames are frozen into the snow and the doors added later.) Jacques Desbois, the CEO of the operation, got the idea in 1996 after reading about an ice hotel in Sweden. He created an ecotourism company, La Piste Desbois, which specializes in creating igloo villages. ZDNet contributing editor and commentator Heather Clancy visited for her winter vacation.
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How "green" are the construction and maintenance costs - cutting transporting and hoisting multi-ton blocks of ice each year? Plumbing and electic utilities aren't exactly 'green' either.
Probably pennies in comparison to heating costs and power saved by having everything LED. If you really want 'green,' go camping and dig yourself a hole for personal facilities.
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