Seven students in a year-long project to help Hotel Easton achieve its goal of setting a national standard for environmentally friendly hotels gave a midyear report Dec. 10, 2001.
Recommendations included such elements as incorporating environmentally friendly carpeting, furniture, and finishes; providing guests the option of not having their towels and sheets washed every day; asking hotel restaurant patrons whether they want drinking water rather than serving it automatically; selling beer from a local brewery that could wash and reuse the bottles; and composting food scraps or sending them to a pig farmer.
The team includes Mike Lowe ’03, mathematics major, Easton, Pa.; Irshad Haji ’02, electrical and computer engineering, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Carolyn Candrea ’03, economics and business, Fair Haven, N.J.; Emily Murphy ’03, philosophy, Center Valley, Pa.; Jessica Badger ’02, economics and business, Scituate, Mass.; Seth Thomas ’02, A.B. engineering, Lodi, N.Y.; and Carrie Baker ’02, English, Basking Ridge, N.J.
The students presented their ideas to Peter Koehler, president and CEO, Easton Hotel Restoration, and William Dohe, project architect.
The students’ adviser is Dan Bauer, professor of anthropology and sociology.
The Easton Hotel is a 200,000-square-foot, nine-story building constructed in the 1920s with 175 rooms, dining facilities, and elaborate banquet halls. It closed a decade ago as economic decline hit the area.