The Green Solution House (doubles from £117 B&B), which opened in April, seeks to imitate natural systems by using reusable and biodegradable materials.
Other activities deemed praiseworthy by the report included: Starbucks' promise to serve 25% of all beverages in its stores in reusable mugs or tumblers by 2015, even though the coffee giant backtracked, saying it would reach only 5%.
These days, says Bobel, activists often bypass engagement with corporations and concentrate on DIY approaches, setting up businesses that sell reusable sanitary products for instance.
Its success is due to excellent marketing and our laziness in not buying reusable bottles and filling them with tap water.
The latest venture is the Green Solution House, the world's first "cradle-to-cradle"(C2C) hotel, built with reusable or biodegradable materials, which was officially opened by Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik this April.
Judge Dan Linstead said there is "clear evidence of engagement with specific local environmental issues, and smart solutions, including reusable 'souvenir' water bottles for tourists".
Once there, nestle down for this selection of great comedy moments in climate change with a nice brew of organic fairly traded coffee made using a carbon neutral machine (served in a reusable cup from low energy intensity materials).
It is working on making its rockets reusable, which would cut prices even further.
Moore's law, which brought a revolution in cheap and abundant computing, may be running out of steam, but there is plenty of technological inventiveness to look forward to from small robots and reusable rockets to electric racing cars that reach 100kph in three seconds.
But Sydney has made sure they are reusable.
Now, itwants to divide that money between the space station (allowing crews to do some actual science there) and the development of a reusable "orbital space plane" (OSP) that would be launched on top of a cheap expendable rocket.If the request is approved, it will represent a big change of strategy, since research has already started on a fully reusable vehicle.
