Comfort Inn becomes SF’s first zero carbon hotel
from SF Gate
Freda Moon, Nov. 2, 2021
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference underway in Glasgow, there’s much talk this week about the grave threat of carbon in the atmosphere. While it’s doubtful anyone thinks that one hotel in San Francisco can make a dent in the problem, the Comfort Inn by the Bay — part of the budget-friendly Choice Hotels chain, is laying down a challenge to higher end boutique hotels that claim to be green while having a massive carbon footprint.
“We believe we are the first hotel in San Francisco to be zero carbon and one of the first if not the first in the country,” said owner Brian Bainum in an email to SFGATE.
The Russian Hill hotel, which has rooms starting in the low hundreds, has joined with the Chicago-based carbon offset organization Tradewater to offset “100% of the emissions of our hotel – including employee commuting, procurement, and utilities/energy consumption,” Bainum said. Guests are encouraged to use Tradewater’s “Travel Carbon Calculator” to voluntarily offset the carbon costs of their own trip and help the hotel meet its “net zero” goals.