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Major global hotel brands like Marriott, Hilton, SH Hotels & Resorts look to carbon reduction strategies for sustainable solutions and more.

A sustainability playbook is starting to emerge, but will the hospitality industry—including major brands Marriott, Hyatt, and Hilton—keep up?

Mailboxes and Roses When I got to my mailbox at the end of my daily walk down the mail-path, there it lay, bang in the wet grass by the road. “Rats,” I thought, “somebody’s bumped into it and knocked it down.” But the mail lady told the postmaster that it had come away in her hands, the post rotted off flush with the ground. This was a special post that I’d put up myself, sturdy and braced, and it had lasted 15 of the 40 years the mailbox has been there. But I hadn’t sealed it in...

KEVIN RAUCH For The Express KEVIN RAUCH/THE EXPRESS Keith Tripp of the Citizen’s Hose Company Station #28 of South Renovo hands Linda Logue two spaghetti dinners as the company passed out 231 total Monday evening for free. The free dinners were made possible with a donation from friends of the fire company, Phil and Selma (Larson) Regan of Chicago, who paid for all of the food. The Citizen’s Hose Company of South Renovo and their monthly spaghetti dinners not only serves as the most cons...