For a green world
ITC- Welcomgroup is actively committed to the environment. As responsible corporate citizens, we recognise our commitment towards maintaining a greener and healthier environment. WelcomEnviron is our vision for a green world. It’s a multi-faceted programme started in order to propagate environmental causes in the cities where ITC-Welomgroup’s hotels are located. The guiding principle is ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’. Each hotel has its own programme, encompassing local participation, creating awareness among employees and internal conservation through energy-saving gadgets and environment-friendly material. Our guests are also encouraged to be a part of our campaign, ‘Give back as much as you take from the environment’.
Awards
· ITC Mughal won the Golden Peacock award for the year 2004.
· ITC Maratha won the FHRAI Environment Champion award.
· ITC Green Centre was given the US Green Building Council Platinum Rating.
· ITC Hotels received the PATA Gold Environment Award in 2005 in the Corporate category.
ITC Green Centre
The ITC Green Centre in Gurgaon is the physical expression of this commitment to sustainability - Ecological, Social and Economic. The building was awarded Platinum rating by the US Green Building Council – LEED.
> ITC Green Centre (in PDF format)
> ITC Green Centre Map
Greening of the supply chain (GSC)
ITC Hotels made a humble start in the'Greening' of the supply chain (GSC) recently, with the clear intent of attempting to work towards'creating a sea of excellence' as opposed to an'island of excellence' in the economic domain through industry initiative, by inducing our suppliers to adopt cleaner & greener production (C & GP) practices.
This is a useful tool for all SME's (Small & Medium Enterprise) related to industry. The same has been translated 8 Indian languages in order to break the language barrier and faster dissemination of simple knowledge. "The chain which strives to flag ecological solutions"
> Greening Of The Supply Chain --> (English)
--> (Hindi)
Greening of the supply chain – Specific Inputs
ITC Welcomgroup pursues a policy of beyond compliance in its journey in SD - Sustainable Development. In this process it has aligned itself with its supply chain to help all. The first steps have to be taken by all the concerned vendors in putting all their data in the illustrative format for self scrutiny and self motivated actions.
Once this exercise is initiated it will help all the supply chain partners to start taking simple steps to rectify the systems and procedures and work towards cleaner production practices.
With rapid globalization it is in the interest of all SME's - Small & Medium Enterprise to raise their own sustainable development bar by using the following formats:
> Energy Management Questionnaire (in PDF format)
> Detailed Suppliers Questionnaire (in PDF format)
> Tips for Thermal Energy Conservation (in PDF format)
WelcomEnviron Eco-Rating For Schools
A self help toolkit to make the school resource efficient and environmentally responsible.
> WelcomEnviron Eco-Rating Form For Schools
Introduction - Water And Energy Game
Welcomenviron is our vision for a green world. A multifaceted programme established by ITC-Welcomgroup Hotels, to practice the principles of conservation - to create a safe, harmonious and ecologically balanced environment for our guests and employees.
In line with our above philosophy, we have developed a stimulating energy & water game. You are aware that these are contentious issues which needs everyone's participation to optimize the use of the same for our ever increasing population.
Many children are not aware that only 1% of fresh water is available for human use which is disproportionately distributed globally. By chasing our water tables down since 1950, our water table has gone down from a depth of 30' to 350' on average across the country leading to increasing use of energy for our routine needs which is not sustainable.
It is to sensitize all our stakeholders in a playful fashion that Welcomenviron has devised this family engaging game to internalize the simple methods of conservation of water and energy.
"Happy playing" with your family, with an existing dice and coloured coins available in every home with a ludo set.
> WelcomEnviron Game (Save/Print facility)
> Interactive Eco-trail Game (Download zip file)
Eco Educational Toolkit
Environment repairs and maintenance is a big job which needs to be conducted on a large scale. Many of the steps are very simple to implement, it is such a collection of these ideas that ITC Welcomgroup intends to share with all stakeholders. Use of these tools will help to mitigate the challenges on water energy, and poverty related issues.
> Bathroom Water Efficiency
> Drip Irrigation Kit
> Global Water Availability
> Kitchen Water Harvesting
> Unintentional Wastage of Water
> Value of a Tree
> Use of Daylight
> Waterless Urinal
> Nature Coding
Domestic Help (DH) Value Addition Programme
Every home has its own individuality and specifics but there are some rules and duties that a Domestic Help (DH) needs to know. These programmes are an attempt to help the Lady of the House train her DH as well as highlight those issues that are pertinent to the DH, while keeping in mind some of the intricate details we normally don’t seem to keep track of.
> Domestic Help (in PDF format)
Energy Saving
Climate change is modern man's creation and a challenge of a size which is difficult for all of us to understand and act upon speedily. It requires actions at international, national and individual levels. The beauty of addressing this global challenge is that when individuals take simple steps in their own eco system, it results in cost savings, besides taking responsibility for our future generations. The methods of saving energy are simple to implement.
ITC Welcomgroup has been pioneering in eco responsible practices in its own domain and would like to share best practices with all stakeholders.
> Energy Saving(in PDF format)
> Energy Efficiently (in PDF format)
Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives of ITC-Welcomgroup
"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities". James Allen
ITC Welcomgroup in line with it ITCs triple bottom-line philosophy initiated actions on the social front, in a miniscule way, two years back. The sum total of our small initiatives is featured in the two posters.
> Corporate Social Responsibility
> Disability Handbook for Industry (in PDF format)
Elegant, Eco Conscious Event Design
The environmental changes are taking place very rapidly on a global scale, and all stakeholders have to think of new ways of doing old things, whereby through every activity of ours the eco footprint is reduced by changing products, processes and our daily lifestyle, by elimination of waste of different kinds innovatively. With this perspective we request all our stakeholders to actualize the new service design developed by ITC Welcomgroup for conferences and other public events, so that all our future events become eco responsible, which will be another small step in mitigation and adaption approach to the multiple challenges which stare at us everyday.
> Sustainability (in PDF format)
For more information visit to following sites:
www.devalt.org
www.dainet.org
www.cleanindia.org
www.jfmindia.org
www.teriin.org
www.greengrowth.org