Sustainability at The Hotel Zags

Keeping Portland Green

We are proud to call Portland, one of the greenest cities, home!  Doing our part to support the community in which we work, play, and thrive, The Hotel Zags has implemented the following sustainability initiatives. 

Sustainability Initatives

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Field of Greens

The Hotel Zags Portland has an urban green roof that not only looks wonderful but assists in preventing water from overwhelming municipal utilities and is a means of improving urban air quality.
The hotel utilizes low flow faucets and shower heads to save water.
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Pump it up!

The Hotel Zags believes in good clean green initiatives and that is why we made the decision several years ago to go with pump amenities for lotion, hand soap, body wash, shampoo, and conditioner. This eliminates hundreds of pounds of plastic containers and packaging.
The BeeKind™ Collection contain no parabens, phosphates, petrol-derived ingredients, mineral oil, urea, DEA, TEA or polypropylene glycol and a portion of the profits help honey bee research.
Learn More About BeeKind
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Let's Keep it Green

We like it clean, but daily housekeeping
can drain our natural resources.

We are proud to call Portland, one of the greenest cities, home! For every day that you skip our housekeeping services, you help us reduce our carbon footprint. We thank you!
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Light the Way!

The Hotel Zags has converted the majority of our lighting on property to low energy, high efficiency LED lighting.

Additionally we outfitted the hotel with occupancy sensing HVAC system, meaning that if a room is not occupied the HVAC system is at a state of rest, when you check-in the system turns on so that the room is cozy by the time you arrive.
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Save the Trees!

Guests are welcomed to the hotel with paperless check-in!
And on your way out, The Hotel Zags is happy to print out a copy of your stay receipt if you request, but we do not slide them under you door or print them at check-out; this helps reduce paper usage and provides you one less thing to keep in your bag.
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Getting Around

The Hotel Zags provides all employees with bus passes so that they may utilize public transportation and reduce traffic and pollutants.

For our guests, The Gear Shed at The Hotel Zags features several eco-friendly bikes and skateboards.
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Clean it Up

The Hotel Zags participates in SOLVE downtown litter cleanups, in partnership with the Portland Lodging Alliance and Portland Business Alliance!

SHARED INTEREST WITH OUR OWNERS, PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL

As of YE 2021: 

PEB 5-Star Promise Statement

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (“Pebblebrook”) strongly supports AHLA’s 5-Star Promise.  Our pledge to AHLA complements the practices and policies in-place by our company and our hotel operating partners which are designed to ensure that the hotel employees at our more than 50 owned hotels across the United States abide by the law, respect individual’s rights, and do not tolerate sexual harassment of any type at our properties. We have dedicated a significant amount of resources to assist our hotel operators with sexual harassment awareness training and avoidance programs, in addition to training and resources to prevent human trafficking. We will continue to engage with our hotel operators to provide the resources to further assist them in ensuring the safety of our hotel employees and our guests. Pebblebrook is committed to funding the purchase of hotel employee safety devices for use at all of our owned hotels by the end of 2020, as well as to provide funding for additional training and education programs on sexual harassment and human trafficking at our corporate level and our hotel properties. Through our pledge to the 5-Star Promise, Pebblebrook intends to contribute to positive, industry-wide improvements to continue to make hotels a safe place for all our employees and guests.