New York City - NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™ is launching September 16th, thanks to the hard work of a strong roster of highly reputable local restaurants in the Flatiron/Nomad area who are championing green dining and improving the environmental footprint of their restaurants. These restaurants have succeeded in attaining the Certified Green Restaurant® certification from the Green Restaurant Association (GRA), a national nonprofit organization whose sole mission has been helping the restaurant industry become more environmentally sustainable since 1990. With the support of the Green Restaurant Association, Flatiron NoMad Partnership, and Madison Square Park Conservancy, this community of restaurants has banded together to form NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™, a beacon of sustainability attracting people from all over the world to The Place to Dine Green™.
John Meadow, President & Founder of LDV Hospitality, is thrilled about the creation of NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™. LDV Hospitality operates several of NYC’s finest restaurants and two Certified Green Restaurants® in NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™. “The restaurant industry is a major contributor to air, water, and land pollution. It’s in the best interest of the industry and our community that we come together to improve our environmental impact and set a model for other restaurants and communities to follow,” he said.
These Certified Green Restaurants® can be found in the Flatiron NoMad Green Dining Destination™: Barcade Chelsea, Honeybrains, Rezdôra-Osteria Emiliana, Scarpetta, Hawksmoor, BLACKBARN, Tarallucci e Vino, INDAY All Day, Shake Shack at Madison Square Park, PLANTA Queen NoMad, The Seville, and SPIN New York. Learn more about NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™ and the environmental accomplishments of its founding members here: Dinegreenflatironnomad.com
Having implemented 297 environmental steps to earn more than 1,500 GreenPoints™ (the GRA’s unit of measurement of a restaurant’s sustainability), NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™ is making quite the splash in improving the environmental impact of these restaurants. Collectively, these restaurants are saving 354,077 kWh of energy annually, the equivalent of removing 52.8 passenger vehicles off the road each year. Additionally, NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™ is saving 504,395 gallons of water every year, the equivalent of 46.3 backyard swimming pools worth of water. Perhaps the most impressive, these restaurants are diverting 969,465 pounds of waste from landfills per year through implementing recycling and composting programs, as well as additional waste reduction measures. That’s the same amount of weight as 5,356 average Americans combined.
“NYC’s First Green Dining Destination™ in Flatiron NoMad serves as a model to help the restaurant industry become more sustainable one neighborhood at a time.” says Michael Oshman, CEO and Founder of the Green Restaurant Association.
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