PS3 Manifest Zielony

PS1 Green behaviour

We are both engineers. We did work for civil security, protecting the population against risks (nuclear, chemical, bacteriologic, climatic..) so we did choose for ourselves, our kids, our guests, and our environment a set of measures which are reasonable and scientifically justified to avoid several of these risks in our home and our apartments.

These last years we did make significant investments to make our apartments as “green” as possible :

1) we did replace all the water heaters by fast heaters : they do not waste energy when you do not use hot water and they are more comfortable as they reheat water much faster (heat pomp) hat the slow ones (even if after 2-3 showers there is a 15min waiting time) ,

2) we did change 80% of bulbs to green (Led or Neon),

3) toilets to green (2 water flashing positions) ,showers did replace bath tubes (110liters of water spared per shower)

4) central heating system by a “green” one (condensation, heat pomp) ;

5) we did replace all the windows by double glass .

6) we have a green washing and drying system for linens and towels, and green automatically distributed washing liquids

7) most of materials we use are green: wood every ware, water paintings (no plastics or non recyclable) …

8) we use only ecologic cleaning liquids (without chlorine …) and even if the result is not as spectacular as in most of hotels we refuse to poison our guests and environment with heavy chemicals. Cleaning with Bio products is much longer and costly than with heavy detergents. Cleaning a 2 rooms apartment with a heavy chemical spry (spy and more or less wash after 15minutes) takes about 2 hours. With Green products 3hours or even 5 if it is very dirty. This is why we ask you to keep it clean.

9) Most of the furniture is wood and iron based the loft beds (queen size) are especially developed my us to be healthy as the mattresses are built on springs and coconut fibbers to help air circulation and avoid synthetic materials (used in 99% of mattresses) producing an unhealthy gas in contact with air and with transpiration

10) we did replace most of cookers and pots by ecologic induction system reducing the cooking energy by 50% and given a very high cooking comfort as well as high fire and kids security, most of pots and utensils are made in pure stainless iron so there is no risk that your food contains any heavy metals or plastic molecules after cooking

11) Our linens and towels are washed with ecologic washing liquids we and the temperatures are adjusted to make it biologically neutral but without exaggerated loss of energy. We do not use anti-stain products as they are aggressive and allergen so some of our linens can be a bit stained but clean. We do not iron the linens as it is a big lost of energy and it fragile them. We buy good quality linens and we keep them for long. We avoid to produce waste as much as we can. If you want new and ironed linens we can provide it at additional cost. But in any case please take care of them and help us to kip it clean.

12) We do not use strong repellents against : birds (pigeons), insects and mice. These products frequently contain arsenic or strychnine and their vapors would poison more our guests than the pest. But to make this measure possible you will have to strictly respect hygiene and hide your food into the fridge, remove garbage (after selection) everyday …

13) we did also optimized our apartments to give reasonable comfort and space in very central locations of Paris (to be able to walk or bike to most of points of interest) at affordable prices for everybody as wasting space and bad location is also waste of time and energy.

14) These last years we did make available our bikes to our guests but now Paris did develop a very efficient bike renting system called Velib (at very low cost) there are several Velib stations around our buildings and we will help you to use it if you want.

15) We will provide you our help to spend your vacations discovering the best of our culture, science, nature and history, our food and amusements according to our scale of values. We believe that discovering the way the other nations behave and take the best of if for you is also a way to do better once you come back home.

Please do not think that we are green extremists. We do not only ask you to participate in this eco effort we do it ourselves: our house is equipped as our apartments with much more sophisticated eco system : water and air firing systems: toilets without paper , heat pumps… our job is to develop new energies with reduced ecologic risk: solar power plants, nuclear fusion … We think that we probably are one of most CO2 effective apartments (smallest emission of CO2 per guest) in Paris. So we ask you to help us in this green behaviour => PLEASE: select your garbage, switch the light off when not necessary, do not let the taps open when non necessary, do not let the windows open with the heating or AC on (there is a ventilation system to keep a good air). One will say that we only want to reduce our costs asking you these efforts but in fact it will change nothing (or not much) in our costs, as we pay these utilities based on the number of our square meters and not on real consumption, but it will change a lot from the point of view of C02. We spend also much more time and use more expensive products to clean, to wash , to manage pests (if any) as the Bio products cost in France 2 times more than heavy chemical products. The last thing is that we did let in all our apartments a DVD with HOME the movie of Artus Bertrand to show you how beautiful our Planet is and what can happen if we do not take care of IT.