Soul Group Planet Achieves Regenerative Journey Milestones

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Soul Community Planet (SCP), the Holistic Hospitality firm based on the values of wellness, social good and sustainability, at the moment introduced it has reached a number of milestones in its efforts to make regenerative journey a actuality. These embrace reaching its company-wide Web Zero Waste purpose for 2022, receiving a brand new EarthCheck benchmark, and launching the brand new Pristine Playa program on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.

SCP Exceeds 2022 Web Zero Waste Objective

In 2022, SCP achieved superior waste effectivity, with an estimated one pound of landfill waste generated per occupied room – lower than half of the estimated business common. Over the identical time interval, SCP’s regenerative packages have resulted in an estimated 2.5 kilos of waste restoration and carbon sequestration per occupied room. In consequence, SCP estimates it achieved internet adverse waste of roughly 1.5 kilos per occupied room company-wide in 2022.

“We’ve made stable progress towards our purpose of constructing regenerative journey a actuality for our company. After a variety of detailed, exhausting, yucky work – for instance, sorting and weighing our trash manufacturing – we realized so much about enhance our waste effectivity. Due to the SCP workforce’s focus and exhausting work, all of our motels have carried out measured scale back, reuse, recycle packages. Accounting for offsets, resembling carbon sequestered by the bushes and kelp we plant, and ocean waste we get well by way of packages like Pristine Makai in Hawaii – and now Pristine Playa in Costa Rica – we’re at the moment exceeding our Web Zero Waste goal,” mentioned Soul Group Planet Founder & CEO Ken Cruse. “That mentioned, our final purpose is to realize nearly zero stable waste per visitor keep unbiased of carbon and waste-recovery offsets. It is a lofty however attainable purpose, as most stable waste generated by motels is pointless meals waste and packaging.”

SCP Redmond Achieves EarthCheck Recognition

SCP additionally introduced at the moment that SCP Redmond Lodge has achieved Bronze Benchmarked recognition by way of EarthCheck, the world’s main enterprise advisory group specializing in sustainability and vacation spot administration for the journey and tourism business. SCP Redmond is the primary property in Oregon to be benchmarked by EarthCheck and the second SCP Lodge to obtain this recognition.

EarthCheck has recognized each SCP Redmond and SCP Hilo as regional leaders in power consumption, greenhouse fuel emissions and neighborhood contributions.

“Vacationers want to have a constructive impression on the locations they go to. EarthCheck helps guarantee we’re implementing confirmed sustainability, effectivity and social packages with a excessive diploma of accountability. We’re happy with our relationship with EarthCheck as they maintain us accountable to a really excessive customary. This relationship displays our stable dedication to being a frontrunner in regenerative journey,” mentioned Cruse.

SCP Lodges’ EarthCheck certification is finished in two phases together with Benchmarking – the quantitative analysis of a property’s environmental and social efficiency, after which Certification – the verification of these requirements by an accepted unbiased third occasion EarthCheck Auditor. Whereas the total course of can usually take many months, SCP Redmond and SCP Hilo are anticipated to realize Silver Licensed standing in 2023.

Along with SCP Redmond and Hilo, all different SCP properties present process the method to turn out to be EarthCheck licensed embrace Salishan Coastal Lodge in Gleneden Seaside, Ore.; and newly acquired properties in Laguna Seaside (SCP Laguna Seaside and SCP Seven4One), SCP Mendocino Inn and Farm, and the corporate’s first worldwide property, SCP Corcovado Wilderness Lodge in Costa Rica.

SCP Launches Pristine Playa Program

SCP Corcovado Wilderness Lodge’s new Pristine Playa program, performed in partnership with Fundación Corcovado and modeled after SCP Hilo’s profitable Pristine Makai program on Hawaii’s Huge Island, will assist maintain the adjoining Corcovado Nationwide Park pure, lovely and freed from ocean waste. The Pristine Playa program, which shall be a part of SCP’s Each Keep Does Good program, is predicted to get well extra ocean waste from the shores of Corcovado Nationwide Park than shall be generated by the already waste-efficient SCP Corcovado Wilderness Lodge. Furthermore, this system will present revenue for residents of the economically challenged Osa neighborhood.

“The primary time we visited Corcovado Nationwide Park we have been struck by the depth of its wildlife and its spectacular pure shoreline. Sadly, we have been additionally struck by the quantity of ocean waste (largely from overseas fishing vessels) that had washed up on its shores,” mentioned Cruse. “Sadly, Corcovado Nationwide Park – which homes 3% of the world’s biodiversity, and which the Nationwide Geographic Society outlined as probably the most biologically intense place on the planet – merely lacks the sources to conduct common waste cleanups. Via the Pristine Playa program, each visitor go to to the SCP Corcovado Wilderness Lodge will assist fund our efforts to concurrently deal with two essential points by offering a lot wanted revenue for residents of the economically challenged Osa Peninsula, and by serving to to maintain Corcovado Nationwide Park freed from ocean waste. In consequence, the brand new Pristine Playa program shall be a really stable step towards making journey to the SCP Corcovado Wilderness Lodge actually regenerative.”

SCP introduced its dedication to reaching Web Zero Waste in 2022 and has since frequently added sustainability and regenerative journey packages to assist vacationers depart the locations they go to higher off than they have been earlier than.

About Soul Group Planet

Laguna Seaside, Calif.-based Soul Group Planet (SCP) was born out of a imaginative and prescient to make the world a greater place by serving those that worth wellness, kindness and sustainability. As the primary and solely Holistic Hospitality firm, SCP’s handcrafted venues present clear, contemporary, energy-efficient, low-waste lodging, plant-forward meals selections, locations for socializing, collaborating and dealing, together with superior wellness experiences. SCP’s 9 motels embrace SCP Colorado Springs, SCP Redmond (Ore.), SCP Depoe Bay (Ore.), SCP Hilo, SCP Seven4One, Laguna Riviera Resort, SCP Mendocino Inn and Farm, Salishan Coastal Lodge by SCP Lodges and SCP Corcovado Wilderness Lodge. SCP helps a variety of causes that share its imaginative and prescient by way of its Each Keep Does Good program and by donating 5 p.c of its income to causes that align with its core values. For extra data, go to scphotels.com.