A New York City Eco Friendly Hotel - InterContinental New York Barclay

The InterContinental New York Barclay practices the principles of the Triple Bottom Line: Economic Prosperity, Social responsibility and Environmental protection.

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• InterContinental New York Barclay is a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC)
  

It's all about Bee-ing Sustainable!

Four colonies of honey bees checked into the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel's 15th floor rooftop to pollinate its garden and neighborhood flora. Bees are an endangered key biodiversity element. By introducing beehives to Midtown Manhattan, the hotel helps our community feel closer to delicate ebbs and flows of nature.
Watch the bees in action!  Click here to read more.

100% Wind Power

The Barclay is among the first New York City Hotels to be powered by 100% wind energy via renewable energy certificates (RECs).

Eco-Friendly Hotel Practices:

The Barclay has a waste management program which includes composting and reduced paper consumption. Eight-five percent of the hotel's lighting is achieved with Compact Fluorescent Bulbs.Through eco-friendly hotel initiatives such as water saving technologies, paper recycling, energy conservation, and controlling emissions, the hotel is committed to reducing waste and mitigating its environmental impact on our planet. The hotel manages heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems to lower our carbon footprint. Implementing Green Engage, the new Group-wide online sustainability management system, our hotel strives to save 15-25% in energy consumption and champion eco-friendly hotel practices.

Green Engage Meetings
The InterContinental New York Barclay is proud to offer green meetings and eco-friendly amenities to groups and meeting planners interested in minimizing the negative environmental impacts of a meeting while raising awareness in a positive and elegant way. The Green Engage Meeting serves sustainable food and beverages and offers team-building eco-opportunities to participants. To book a signature Barclay Green Engage Meeting, contact Tel. 212.906-3110, or email Barclaygs@ihg.com

Local, Natural and Organic

Striving to make our hotel as eco-friendly as possible, nearly all food offered at the Barclay is organic, seasonal, natural or local, including our popular Natural Power Breakfast.

Corporate Responsibility:

The InterContinental New York Barclay has "adopted" The Boys and Girls Club of Harlem and East Side Community High School and has forged a partnership which links that school with Hatua Likoni School and orphanage in Kenya. Our hotel raises funds for Haiti, Chile and many other causes such as domestic violence, animal shelters and Cancer organizations. We look forward to adding many more initiatives to our Corporate Responsibility strategy in the years to come.

The Barclay's Award-winning Concierge Program Supports Local initiatives:

Motivating New York's concierge community to become local leaders in sustainable hospitality is a focus of the Barclay's Chef Concierge Dominic Alfonzetti, who is also President of the New York Hotel Concierges Association. He leads such efforts among New York's hotel concierges to support such causes as Million Trees NYC, Mayor Bloomberg's Million Trees planting initiative.

Corporate Responsibility Programs:

Hatua Likoni.

The Barclay has initiated a support program in partnership with Hatua Likoni, a grassroots, youth led community organization based in Kenya. The organization is dedicated to alleviating poverty, under-education, and idleness among children and youth in Likoni, Kenya. Hatua Likoni fosters personal development and self sufficiency among young people while promoting economic development and civil society within Likoni.

   

I am delighted to send a heartfelt thank you to everyone that attended the first ever Holiday cocktail event at the Barclay on December 16h that benefited Hatua Likoni. We were able to raise $3,500.00 to support Hatua Likoni's education programs. The Barclay will host various fundraisers throughout the year and couple the organization within our corporate responsibility activities.
Thank you from Hatua Likoni 

The East Side Community High School.

The Barclay has partnered with a local Eastside New York City High School and has created a mentoring and awareness program. Monthly interactive events increase students knowledge of various industries within Manhattan including Tourism, Consumer and Trade shows, Special events, and other areas of interest to the students. This five year program will help students to consider potential careers and to better understand the boundless opportunities that exist in New York.

Cleaning up a park in Harlem

New York City Sustainable Hotel.

Motivating New York's concierge community to become local leaders in sustainable hospitality is a pet project for Chef Concierge Dominic Alfonzetti, who is leading the hotel brand to support such causes as Million Trees NYC, Mayor Bloomberg's Million Trees planting initiative.

Hotel Commitees

• Touch-A-Heart:

  supports worthy causes within our hotel, the local community and the world.

• Education:

  dedicated to internal and external education and mentoring including partnerships with The Boys and Girls Club of Harlem, the East Side Community High School in New York City and Hatua Likoni School in Mombassa, Kenya.

• Healthy Living:

  promoting a healthy lifestyle for employees with a focus on diet, exercise and smoking cessation.

• Sustainable Purchasing:

  a critical review of all hotel food & beverage offerings emphasizing the purchase of local, organic and sustainable products and materials whenever possible.

• Go Paperless:

  dedicated to minimizing print and paper waste.

• Green Hotel:

  an overall initiative to decrease the Hotel's energy consumption and environmental impact.

• Responsible Meetings:

  dedicated to incorporating various components of corporate responsibility into the execution of our meetings and events offerings.

Enviromental Protection Initiatives

• 100% wind energy supply
• Natural Power Breakfast buffet featuring organic, sustainable, seasonal and local products in the Barclay Bar & Grill
• Changed to local, organic, natural food products/providers wherever possible
• Revised all banquet menus to include organic and local ingredients
• Waste Management Program including recycling and composting
• Planted a rooftop garden to produce our own herbs
• Instituted use of bio degradable cleaning products and chemicals
• Utilization of Green Seal certified paper products in guestrooms
• Linen/towel reuse option for hotel guests
• CFL bulbs in 85% of hotel: guestrooms, meeting rooms and back of house
• Installation of low flow showerheads in all guestrooms
• Timers and dimmers for lights in all public areas to lower off-peak energy use
• Electronic guest bills with printed bills and folios upon request only
• All reservation confirmations sent by email
• Paperless internal meetings and reduction of unnecessary printing
• Double sided printing when possible for internal documents
• Offering staff option for paperless direct deposit paychecks
• Paperless staff BEO (Banquet Event Orders) and Group Resume distribution
• Installation of Quench water stations for staff
• All staff provided with reusable water bottles
• Elimination of disposable plates and cups in employee cafeteria

Socially Responsible Initiatives

• Leftover shampoo, liquid soap and lotions donated to Community First homeless shelter in Harlem
• Donated of over $8,000 to various charities including CARE, CARE Haiti, Susan G.Komen, Imentor, The Greenhouse Project, Angelwish, Nature Conservancy and REACH in a partnership with IvyLife.
• Formed mentoring partnership with East Side Community High School
• Partnership with Boys & Girls Club of Harlem to help widen horizons with special projects around United Nations General Assembly, Opening of InterContinental Hotel Moscow, cooking, neighborhood planting, etc.
• Built and donated 18 bicycles to the Boys & Girls Club of Harlem
• Revamped hotel employee's cafeteria menus to encourage healthy eating
• Instituted "Weight Checkers" program for staff
• Conducted Thanksgiving Food Drive
• Conducted Winter Coat Drive for New York's homeless
• Partnership with City Harvest resulting in over 20,000 lbs of food donated
• Donated hotel sheets, food and money to Elmsford Animal Shelter