Going all out in a bunch coaching class. Perfecting your swim stroke within the pool. Setting a brand new private file on the health ground. Life Time members deliver their exhilarating vitality into our golf equipment and areas daily.
Impressed by that refreshing vitality, Life Time workforce members faucet into that enthusiasm to discover new potentialities for optimizing our applications, companies, choices, and locations, together with methods to create greener environments. We’re dedicated to having a optimistic affect on the well being and wellness of our members and workforce members, in addition to the communities wherein we function and on this one planet now we have to name residence.
To raised focus our sustainability efforts, we lately surveyed over 2,000 of our members about what’s necessary to them in relation to eco-friendly practices. We realized that our members care most about recycling, conserving vitality, and eliminating single-use plastic.
“General, our members actually care about what Life Time is doing to guard the setting,” says Pete Isabell, director of vitality administration and sustainability for Life Time. “And if all of us make sustainable selections, there’s potential to make a huge impact.”
Right here’s how Life Time is dedicated to conserving pure sources — and how one can assist make a distinction.
Lowering Plastic
“Our members care probably the most about decreasing plastic and recycling,” says Isabell. “Specifically, they had been serious about seeing extra eco-friendly merchandise within the locker room and within the LifeCafe®.”
Life Time is making efforts to scale back plastics in all our places to be able to hold waste out of our oceans and landfills. All of our athletic golf equipment, together with Life Time Work and Life Time Residing places, present a number of filtered water bottle refill stations to chop down on single-use plastic water bottles. And beginning this summer season, our moist swimsuit luggage might be made with post-consumer recycled ocean plastic collected from seashores around the globe.
A member favourite, our refillable iced tea tumbler might be again this summer season with a extra environmentally pleasant stainless-steel design to assist cut back the variety of plastic cups discarded. Going ahead, we’re additionally working to scale back single-use plastics within the LifeCafe by switching to recycled plastic or different sustainable supplies.
What you are able to do:
- Deliver a reusable water bottle to fill on the water stations all through the membership to remain hydrated throughout your exercises.
- In the event you use one in all our plastic swimsuit luggage, let it dry out and reuse it as a lot as doable.
Vitality Effectivity
During the last 5 years, we’ve improved our electrical energy use by 35 % as an organization, saving 130 million kWh of electrical energy per yr. That’s sufficient to energy greater than 15,500 properties for a yr.
We’ve additionally lowered our pure gasoline use by 15 %, saving 2.7 million therms of pure gasoline — sufficient to energy a automotive for 35.5 million miles. And within the subsequent 5 years, we’re committing to a different 20 % discount in vitality in any respect our services — an extra 75 million kWh of electrical energy and three.6 million therms of pure gasoline per yr. (Be aware: Therms is the unit of measurement for natural-gas use over time; one therm is equal to 100,000 BTUs.)
What you are able to do:
- At residence, vitality conservation might be so simple as turning off lights and home equipment whenever you aren’t utilizing them. At our Life Time Residing places, we use sensible residence expertise to assist handle vitality use in every residence.
- Take into account putting in a programmable thermostat to scale back heating and cooling whenever you’re asleep or out of the home.
Eco-Aware Lighting
All Life Time services — together with Life Time Work and Life Time Residing — characteristic LED lighting, which makes use of 70 to 80 % much less electrical energy than standard lighting. We accomplice with producers to custom-engineer LED lamps that last more and emit extra mild. This improve saves sufficient vitality to energy 3,200 properties a yr.
What you are able to do:
- Change your mild bulbs with energy-efficient options, comparable to LEDs, to make use of 25 to 80 % much less electrical energy than conventional bulbs.
- Use lamps at any time when doable for ample mild with a decrease price and vitality output.
Good Water Packages
Within the final 5 years, we’ve additionally lowered our total water consumption by 10 % or 157 million gallons. Every of the three,000-plus showerheads throughout all membership places have a stainless-steel, low-flow design. The set up of those fashions lowered bathe water circulate by 45 %, which saves sufficient water to fill 165 Olympic-sized swimming swimming pools yearly. And within the subsequent 5 years, we’ll work to scale back our total water consumption by one other 20 %.
What you are able to do:
- Take a look at your water invoice to observe your water utilization and make changes the place you’ll be able to. Roughly 60 % of residential water utilization happens indoors by way of flushing bathrooms, washing garments, and showering.
- Take into account putting in low-flow showerheads in your bogs at residence.
Future Plans
Over the following 5 years, we’ll proceed to extend our vitality, waste, and water discount efforts — whereas additionally discovering extra methods to extend sustainability. For instance, we’re engaged on higher methods to recycle natural waste in our cafes, in order that what we don’t use can go on to assist fertilize the fields the place we get our native produce.
“Our objective is for each member and workforce member to grasp our sustainability mission, and we’re specializing in confirmed applied sciences that may have the best affect on vitality conservation and sustainability,” says Isabell.
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