Inconvenient Truth replaces bible (Bloomberg)

[katty]

more:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=us&sid=afIESX3LdgnQ

California Hotels Go Green With Low-Flow Toilets, Solar Lights

By Ari Levy and Carole Zimmer

April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of ``An Inconvenient Truth,'' former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming.

They'll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper as it marches toward becoming California's first hotel certified as ``green,'' or benevolent to the environment. Similar features are found 35 miles south at San Francisco's Orchard Garden Hotel, which competes for customers with neighboring luxury hotels like the Ritz-Carlton and Fairmont.

``I'm not your traditional Birkenstocks and granola type of guy,'' said Stefan Muehle, general manager of the Orchard Garden, who said green measures are reducing energy costs as much as 25 percent a month. ``We're trying to dispel the myth that being green and being luxurious are mutually exclusive.''

[polichick]

1. Sounds lovely...

...great place for a DU meet-up!

(Does DU do meet-ups?)

[Cheap_Trick]

2. NO MORE BIBLES?!

Great. Now the next time there's a shooting at a hotel, the fundies will say it's because we've taken god out of our hotels.:sarcasm: What's their excuse when there's a shooting at a church?

[katty]

3. exactly!

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Oh, god hasn't been in a church for decades.

You can tell.

[n2doc]

4. Yet another divisive article

Science vs. Religion. Bleah. Their right to do it, and one less Bible pitching motel isn't going to hurt anyone, but it will be used as another tool by the fundies to attack science. Just wait.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. But isn't AIT printed on heavier paper?

They wouldn't, you know, roll as well.

[MasonJar]

6. That sounds like my kind of place.

[RestoreGore]

7. Great. Now They'll say Al Gore Hates The Bible

Hope they put a disclaimer in their hotel stating that their move is not indicative of Al Gore's religious beliefs.