STI has created a unique carbon offset program for the Club by calculating Quintess, LRW’s Carbon Footprint: the total carbon dioxide emissions associated with the internal operations of each home. This includes:
**Home electricity consumption expressed in kilowatt-hours or megawatt-hours on a month-to-month basis;
**Square footage of common areas;
**Total number of rooms;
**Average occupancy rates; and
**Estimated total number of guests annually.
This program also enables Quintess, LRW members to positively impact the environment on their own by simply mentioning Leading Green when reserving an experience at any of Leading Hotel’s 440 hotels worldwide, or directly booking through http://www.lhwgreen.com/. LHW will make a corporate donation of 50 cents to STI for every night of a guests’ stay. And, if Club members want to make a financial donation on their own, they can use the STI carbon calculator, which is on the Quintess, LRW website, to calculate how much would be needed to offset the carbon footprint from their travel beyond their stays in Club homes.