“What is this all about?”
Yearly over 40.000 individual backpackers will stay at The Flying Pig hostels. The average stay of a traveller is about two nights and each traveller takes at least one shower a day. The hostel is open 365 days a year. The hallway, bar and basement lights are on 24 hours a day, the average temperature in de building is 18.9 degrees Celsius, we are using a 24 hour ventilation and in the summertime an air-conditioning installation.
“Wow that would mean that as a hostel you have enormously high energy consumptions every year!”
Well, that’s right! The Flying Pig is using about 160.000 kilowatts of electricity and about 18.500 cubic meter of gas. In total we are responsible for 145 ton of greenhouse gasses every year.
“What can you do about this?”
To neutralise this greenhouse effect, you will need to grow 6.677 trees for a year’s period somewhere in a rain forest on this planet.
“Can I help, being just a single traveller?”
Yes you can!! The Flying Pig is working together with a Dutch non profit foundation; “Trees for Travel”. By dropping your Key card in the “Trees for Travel key box” you are actually helping to plant new trees. ‘Trees for Travel’ will use your donation to plant and maintain rain forests in order to compensate for greenhouse gasses around the world.
“But what difference will one key make?”
The value of your key deposit compensates the CO2 you produce during your stay at the Flying Pig and will be invested directly in maintaining and rebuilding forests all over the world.
Go on: Donate that key and plant that so needed tree!
http://www.treesfortravel.nl Dutch
http://www.treesfortravel.nl/general.html English
