Field Trip Reflection

I've been to the Peppermill Resort in Reno once before the sustainability trip. I didn't know the resort practiced sustainable methods to run the hotel prior to the trip, let alone how many sustainable practices they actually do. Being the only (known) resort to use geothermal energy to run most of the hotel is impressive enough, let alone all of their other projects they incorporate. Two of my notaable favorites were the donating of unused soaps to the less fortunate and their recylcing of food waste to make compost. I also found it really interesting and productive how the Peppermill turned to sustainable practices to save money and keep the resort running when it was going through troubles. The 2nd portion of the field trip was definitely my favorite. Being in the hybrid geodesic structure was incredible. Since my family just recently moved to 2 acres of land and will be building a house soon, and learning about sustainable structured homes is on my families agenda. Actually touring a (what I believe to be) revolutionary home structure was awesome, especially since in a way it was a surprise. Overall the entire field trip was a great start to my day and I'm really happy that I was able to learn everything that I did that day.