Our Commitment to the Environment

We are passionate about minimizing our impact on the environment. Therefore it makes sense we fell in love with The Sea Ranch. As a community, all its members strive to “live lightly on the land.” We also encourage our guests to help us have a lighter touch here and on our planet in general. Collaborating with ethical organizations, local businesses, and guests, we try to make Abalone Bay as green as possible.

As a result of our commitment, we hope you too share our passion for environmental sustainability. Please explore below how we have committed our business to environmental sustainability. This is a project in the making. We anticipate increasing our action list as we progress.

You Can Participate Too

Where you see a linked phrase, we invite you to click and learn more about the site and how you too can participate directly.

Power

Obviously, as a result of being 99% energy efficient, we installed an electric tankless water heater
Of course, there are free charging points available for guests with electric cars
Next in our plans this year is the purchase of an electric car – watch this space!
We buy appliances with a high energy rating to lower our power use
Naturally, we optimize the management of nature’s airflow using Vellux skylights, windows and sliding glass doors to keep cool in the summer
Our light bulbs are all LED to limit our power use. We are proud to highlight the LED light built right into our living room floor. lamp. The integrated LED lights are more energy-efficient and can last up to 50,000 hours!

Consumables

First and foremost, we use cleaning products that have refillable bottles, so no single-use plastic
We provide filtered water for our guests to encourage fewer bottled water purchases
Without a doubt, we recycle everything we can
Reusable shopping bags are provided for our guests, making shopping less dependent on plastic bags
Our septics tank release nutrients back into the ground

Environment

Paper product companies whose products are made from recycled paper and that give back include among others:
- Who gives a Crap made from recycled paper and their profits go to build toilets in developing countries
- 7th Generation
Our default search engine is Ecosia this finances tree planting around the world
We use FSC® paper products

Community

First, we use an Eco-friendly web hosting
In collaboration with our guests, plus National Forest Foundation’s 50 Million for Our Forests campaign and OneTreePlanted, we plant trees to combat climate change
We help guests to calculate their holiday carbon footprint and give them a solution to offset this by planting trees.
Ethical businesses that also give back to their community are our choice of partners
We gift items that also support actions to reduce our carbon footprint

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