And the Gold Award for Sustainable Leadership: Hotels goes to Stone Hedge, Ladakh!
Located in one of the most challenging landscapes in the country, Stone Hedge is a well-designed, family-owned property that celebrates local materials and local culture, showing great fidelity to ideas of ecological and social sustainability. From using renewable energy to harvesting water from snow, it integrates eco-friendliness into every aspect of its architecture as well as the experiences it offers to its guests.
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Located in one of the most challenging landscapes in the country, Stone Hedge is a well-designed, family-owned property that celebrates local materials and local culture, showing great fidelity to ideas of ecological and social sustainability. From using renewable energy to harvesting water from snow, it integrates eco-friendliness into every aspect of its architecture as well as the experiences it offers to its guests.
#Awards #IRTA #Travel #OutlookTraveller #OutlookMagazine #OutlookGroup
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00:05 It won't be an exaggeration to say
00:08 that every aspect for Stonehenge has been through the lens
00:13 of sustainability.
00:15 But this is not to say that everything is sustainable,
00:17 but the team has made their best efforts
00:20 to make everything as natural and local and sustainable
00:24 as possible.
00:25 Coming to the construction, mostly the materials
00:28 used are wood, stone, mud.
00:33 And compressed mud bricks have taken place of cement bricks.
00:40 And mostly everything on site has been
00:43 used to finish the building.
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