Queenstown Top 10 Holiday Park is the world's first Green Globe certified holiday park, emphasizing sustainable practices for future viability. The document encourages businesses to think about their environmental impact and engage the community through simple, actionable steps towards sustainability. It highlights the benefits of sustainability, including guest appreciation, staff retention, and profitability without moral compromise.

1. Queenstown Top 10 Holiday Park Erna Spijkerbosch The World’s first Green Globe Certified Holiday Park

2. Don’t Be Confused by Jargon! K.I.S.S.

3. Sustainable Viable Certified Profitable Future proofed Accredited Carbon Footprint Socially Responsible Economically Environmentally Sustainability Talk the Talk Walk the walk Promote the walk & talk The Amish folk used to be called “old fashioned” now they are known as “sustainable” Tonnie and I used to be called “cheap skate’s” and now we are “environmentally aware” My parents – and many others – lived through the age before “throw- away” and managed to live a good life. Logical Sustainable Think globally – act locally – means ALL OF YOU! Holistically

5. My key message to all is that, however we word the issues, whatever we call them, THEY APPLY TO ALL BUSINESS TYPES It is up to all of us to care about what’s going on around us and to do our best to leave resources for the future. This doesn’t mean we can’t live to-day but it does mean we have to think about how we live. If we make things clear and simple it will be easier to get folk started down the right path and from these small steps many kilometers can be walked! In business staff ‘buy-in’ is important and flows through to the guests and ‘spreads the word’.

6. Landscaping boundaries and road sides. Think about your immediate neighbours and passing community Lighting and its impact not only on your guests, but also on your surroundings. Leave and re-approach or overlook your premises at night when lights are on – see if you can reduce lighting and still be secure. Is your lighting achieving what you want? Use motion sensors. Is it necessary? Is it spoiling your neighbours’ or the general public’s environment? Do you start engines earlier than necessary and so disturb neighbours? Think about how your business may impact the surrounding community – Negatively and Positively.

7. Change how we think! Begins with how you think about everything. Reuse = Towels, Motels/SCU/Cleaning/BBQ/worms Cleaning products = kitchen cupboard Building concepts = solar, insulation, style Décor & presentation = reuse products Rubbish = recycle, reuse. reduce Buy In = involve family & friends Everything goes somewhere, there is no such thing as waste, everything is connected to everything…eventually

8. Around the House Start with what you can achieve simply Food packaging – can we choose how we buy food? Buy loose foods – less packaging Buy meat from the butcher - loose packed – not on non recyclable trays. Use the mushroom paper bags for all fruit & vegies. – Buy larger packs if you can, e.g. potatoes

9. Cleaning From the Kitchen Baking soda White vinegar (4%) Spray bottle dilute 50% Dishwashing liquid. Coffee grounds

10. Being Environmentally Aware beyond your Boundaries

11. Farmers’ cast-off’s make garden ornaments Reuse

12. Early 1900’s coal range makes unique BBQ’s Reuse

13. Copper Hot Water Cylinder as Planter. Reuse

14. Glass & concrete polished table top. Scrap marble bench top. Reuse

15. “ Tardus” laundry. Concrete Road Culvert converted into a Laundry . Reuse

16. Mini-mized transport Reduce

17. One of many solar hot water heating installations about ”Creeksyde” Sustainable

18. Certification Audits Social commitment Water usage Paper usage and type Guest nights Energy usage Waste to landfill and waste diverted Cleaning products As well as auditing practices on the ground – both practical and procedural.

19. Green Globe Benefits Include:- Guest appreciation Staff recruitment and retention Word of mouth marketing Publicity in terms of Caravan & Camping Magazines, newspaper articles Speaking at Environmental Seminars Speaking at HAPNZ Conference

20. For us all at Creeksyde, being:- Sustainable ‘ Green’ Environmentally Aware Old Fashioned Cheap Skate’s Accredited Socially Responsible Is The Path To:- Viability Profitability Without a guilty conscience Something left for the grandchildren! Thank you