Oregon Hotels Go Eco, Get Featured in the NY Times

The love affair New York has with Oregon continues. Last week, the Travel section of the New York Times featured an article titled “Northwest Hotels Go Eco-Plus” which featured 2 hotels in Oregon: Bend’s Oxford and Portland’s Heathman.

from the article at NYTimes.com:

The locally owned, 59-room Oxford Hotel, which opened in January, also cleans its rooms with a nontoxic solution made from electrolyzed salt and water. The hotel is entirely powered by Columbia River Gorge wind farms and hydro dams through renewable energy credits provided by Pacific Power’s Blue Sky program. A rooftop garden is in the works, and is expected to yield herbs for the hotel’s kitchen by next summer.

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The décor at the Oxford is rustic — antler lamps and metal side tables shaped like tree stumps — but the atmosphere at the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Ore., is decidedly upscale. Fine art, including original Warhols, adorn the walls of the hotel, which originally opened in 1927. The doorman wears beefeater red stockings and a white ruffle collar, and afternoon tea is offered. What guests may not know is that the tea court’s teal rococo-pattern couches are made from rubber tree sap and soy-based foam — installed during a remodeling in 2010.

The full story is available at nytimes.com for your reading pleasure by clicking here.