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Sustainability Conference Recap Greening the Way he NEWH Sustainable Hospitality Committee provided a successful series of sustainability programming for the 2012 Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (HD Expo) in Las Vegas in May. The luncheon titled Green Voice: NEWH Student Scholarship Awards Luncheon & Green Panel Discussion by the Experts featured a diverse panel: moderator David Mahood, Olive Hospitality Consulting/Olive Designs; Hervé Houdre, regional director of operations and GM, InterContinental Hotel New York Barclay; Kathryn Fernholz, executive director, Dovetail Partners, a forest certification and resource management auditor, lecturer, and adviser; Jeanne Varney, lecturer, Cornell School of Hotel Management, and principal, Olive Hospitality Consulting; and Susan Inglis, executive director, Sustainable Furnishings Council, an international sustainability consultant and sustainable product developer. The discussion was lively and covered topics ranging from forest management and wood selection, to strategies in promoting green products. During the luncheon, two students were awarded the NEWH Sustainable Hospitality Design scholarship award, sponsored by JLF/lone meadow (a founding From top: Andrea Thomas, sponsor) and Valley Forge NEWH; Brittany Swingley and Fabrics. This year’s theme: “The Julie Perkins, Art Institute of Sustainable Guest Experience” Las Vegas; Nitya Krishnan, with the story being told from New York School of Interior the perspective of the guest. Design; Diana Dobin, Valley The undergraduate winner Forge Fabrics; and Jeff Lazar, was Brittany Swingley, who JLF/lone meadow; NEWH’s just graduated with a degree Green Panel Discussion in interior design from the Art by the Experts at HD Expo: Institute Las Vegas, for her project titled Local—an eco hotel David Mahood, Jeanne Varney, Susan Inglis, Hervé located in Whitefish, Montana. The graduate student winner was Houdre, and Kathryn Nitya Krishnan, who is getting her Fernholz; and one of the Green Talks between Inglis master’s in sustainable interior and Jillian VanDresser, environment at the New York School of Interior Design, for her VanDresser Group. project, Kranina, an eco resort located in Thekkady, Kerala, India. A sincere thanks to the judges: Deidre Schwartz, American Hotel Register Company; Lora Spran, Walt Disney World Company; and Christine Geronaga, Gensler. And new to the show this year were the Green Talks, 30-minute, one-on-one interviews between the green luncheon experts and committee members—Cliff Tuttle, ForrestPerkins; Mahood; Jillian VanDresser, VanDresser Group; Glenn Hasek, Green Lodging News; and Gary Golla, Sera Architects—that took place at various times on the show floor. ❙❘❚ T Photography by Oscar Einzig 14 www.newh.org http://www.newh.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NEWH - Fall 2012

NEWH - Fall 2012
Table of Contents
News
Who’s Who
Sustainability: Point of View
Sustainability: Conference Recap
Design 101
Icon of Industry
Q&A: Christine Wasmer
Q&A: Rich Gesteland
Have You Seen?
Product Know How
On the Scene
American Atelier
Project: Scarpetta Dining Pavilion
Project: St. Regis Sanya Yalong Bay Resort
Save the Date
New Members
Partner Profiles
Ad Index

NEWH - Fall 2012