Bullfrog Power
The Listel Hotel A certified Zero-waste hotel High efficiency low voltage lighting implemented throughout the hotel property Solar Panels Bulk amenities dispensers - removing 45,000 plastic bottles from waste annually Our Zero-Waste Program

Environment Matters

our commitment / our eco-initiatives

The Listel Hotel is committed to environmental protection and sustainability guided by our Environment Matters, our eco-initiative. This initiative strives to minimize our property’s operational impact on the environment through resource conservation and best practice.

All of us at The Listel Hotel commit to –

  • Work diligently to minimize waste and conserve natural resources, particularly through water and energy conservation;
  • Comply with all applicable environmental legislation and strive to follow best environmental practices;
  • Make environmental considerations an important aspect of decision-making;
  • Review the objectives of Environment Matters: Our Eco-Initiative annually;
  • Build partnerships in our community in order to share our message, educate ourselves, effect positive environmental change, and raise awareness for our guests and colleagues;
  • Promise to consider the opinions and feedback of our guests when examining our environmental programs and procedures;
  • Identify areas for improvement and innovation and support the efforts of the Environment Matters committee.

Zero waste means that we are –

  • turning all of our organic waste into compost
  • reusing all our recyclables, and
  • converting our non-recyclables into electricity

To find out more about our biggest move in being green, check out the, Solar panel Press Release.

To learn more about our various eco-initiatives, check out our eco-booklet.

The Listel Hotel Vancouver Meetings & Events

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All of us at The Listel Hotel recognize the increased importance that event and meeting planners have in positioning their meetings as “green” and in promoting reduced environmental impact. As part of our eco-initiative, Environment Matters, we continue to explore new opportunities to help event and meeting planners green their events. Through this initiative, we are proud to support renewable electricity with Bullfrog Power.

All of The Listel Hotel's meeting rooms are now bullfrogpowered with 100% BC-made wind power. Together, ensuring that all meetings, conferences and events are reducing their environmental footprint.

Choosing Bullfrog Power means taking a stand for low-impact renewable electricity, creating further demand for wind power, reducing the impact on the environment and helping to create a healthier environment for today and tomorrow. Leading environmental groups including WWF-Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation advocate choosing clean, renewable power as a meaningful action individuals and organizations can take to help address the global issue of climate change and support the development of renewable energy.

When hosting a bullfrogpowered event at The Listel Hotel your event will:

  • Have a reduced environmental footprint
  • Help create a healthier environment for families, communities and future generations
  • Strengthen the event’s association with a clean environment and healthy lifestyle

How does it work?

It's very simple – Bullfrog calculates the amount of electricity used by the meeting and function space at The Listel Hotel Vancouver and then ensures that an equivalent amount of low-impact renewable power from EcoLogoM-certified wind is injected back on to the electricity system. It's good to know that all events held at The Listel Hotel Vancouver are automatically bullfrogpowered.

The task for us today is to learn how to become good ancestors of tomorrow.

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Code

This site utilizes HTML5 in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. A best attempt to use W3C standards to build this site was used. However, portions of this site are dynamically-built from data and scripts where it is difficult to ensure validation. The templates which structure the site are valid HTML5 using both CSS2 and CSS3. The great Modernizr script is used to help take advantage of the new HTML5/CSS3 options while delivering a consistent experience with older browsers. Where applicable and appropriate fallbacks have been included to optimise browser compatibility.

Content Management is handled through the brilliant and easy to use (yet powerful) Perch CMS.

Typography

The primary font family specified is the beautifully crafted Ubuntu family and is delivered through CSS @font-face rules. The Ubuntu Font Family is a set of matching new libre/open fonts in development during 2010-2011. The development is being funded by Canonical Ltd on behalf of the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation has been undertaken by Dalton Maag. Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve. For more information and type use oppotunities on the web, visit Google Web Fonts for a taster.

Production

Made with Macbook Pro running OS X and Windows XP.

Software

The HTML templates are initially coded with Notepad++ and TextWrangler then tested within Dreamweaver. Pages are rendered through the Perch CMS and have been tested within all major browsers. Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks are used to prepare all raster graphics and photographs. Vector artwork has been produced in Illustrator, CorelDraw, Inkscape and Acrobat Pro.

Photography

Photographers whose work appear throughout the site include: John Sherlock, Bruce Law, Giles Runeckles, Welbert Choi, along with some stock images (used sparingly). Additional images have been supplied by both Tourism Vancouver and Tourism Whistler.

Other Bits & Bobs

Additional Interactivity is generated through the use of the Jquery plugin framework and fallbacks are provided where needed. IE conditional comments have been used (sparingly) to offer CSS conformity and consistent page rendering where needed.