17 factories on the territory of the Métropole de Grenoble they are involved in both challenges organized as part of the year Grenoble green capital of Europe : the challenge of sustainable tourism is that of Green shops and restaurants. Those wishing to apply are welcome to do so.
The winners will benefit from the right to affix the Responsible Host, Green Business or Green Restaurant sticker on their window and will receive a communication kit with the logo of the European Green Capital.
Minimum three shares
Participants are required to engage in at least three of the actions listed for each challenge.
Therefore, as regards the Sustainable Tourism Challenge, the actions are as follows:
- Identify its energy expenditure items and reduce its consumption;
- Implement a zero plastic policy in consumer products made available to customers (remove individual bottles of shampoo and shower gel, plastic toothbrushes, packaging for soaps, etc.);
- Buy responsibly and locally from eco-labeled suppliers;
- Sensitize customers to eco-gestures;
- Reduce waste by selecting food waste;
- Engage in an energy renewal process of your plant;
- Committing to an eco-responsible label.
Responsible food
As for ecological shops and restaurants, we find some of these actions such as sorting of food waste, commitment to an eco-responsible label or responsible and local purchasing, awareness of customers and suppliers, etc.
Others are added: setting up the bulk and accepting the containers, controlling their energy consumption, having them delivered by bicycle, being a company covered by the statutes of the social and solidarity economy or a company with a mission or even offering responsible food (vegetarian alternative to any meal, organic and local, homemade). The restaurateurs participating in the challenge are required to tick the latter action.
Otherwise, Eight hotels and two restaurants in the Grenoble metropolitan area are candidates au Clef Verte international labelwhose next list of awards will be published in 2023. To prepare for this, they were able to benefit from the support of theUnion of Trades and Industries of the Hotel Industry of Isère (Umih). To date, out of 855 certified establishments, there are only six in Isère.
Testimony
” Growing up in a poor family of five children in Strasbourg, where we had neither hot water nor heating during the winter nights, I remain very attached to ecology.testifies Pierre Wendling, director of the 3-star hotel Le Néron (40 rooms plus the L’Arbre Bleu restaurant labeled Maître restaurant) in Fontanil-Cornillon. More if our hotel has changed dramatically in the last two years, and has experienced all these investments and works in favor of the ecological transition, it owes it to Loéline Jacq, the hyperdynamic apprentice I hired a year and a half ago. She took it all in hand, with the Clef label being in the sights. I have since appointed her deputy director and next year she will be entrusting her with the management of the hotel. She is 21 years old. “
