The Juniper Hotel, perched on the lower slope of Banff’s Mount Norquay, showcases an unsurpassed view of a majestic natural environment. This view provides our daily compass towards improving sustainability practices and furthering environmental awareness.
The Hotel Association of Canada awarded The Juniper Three Green Key desigination for significant steps taken to protect the environment. While this is a favorable achievement, The Juniper will continue to strengthen environmental programs, and improve best management practices, training programs, and engineering solutions to further benefit the environment and the local community.
The Juniper is the first hotel in Western Canada to sign on for 100 per cent of its energy needs to come from green electricity with Bullfrog Power®. Bullfrog’s electricity comes exclusively from wind and hydro facilities that have been certified as low impact by Environment Canada, under is EcoLogo program, instead of from polluting sources like coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear.
Some more of the hotel's environmental practices
- “Green Team” quarterly meetings to review practices, systems and solutions
- Recycling bins in all guest rooms, meeting rooms and public spaces
- All guest rooms are lit by compact fluorescent light bulbs and public spaces by LED lights
- Bee-Kind - certified organic bath amenities in paper bottles with 59% reduction in packaging material and portion of net sales go to honey bee pollination research
- Bike rentals and bike tuning station
- 100% Oceanwise Seafood on Bistro menus
Conservation, then conversion was the primary focus when construction was underway in 2003 under the guide of Arctos & Bird. The hotel re-opened as The Juniper in Nov 2004 with thoughtful incorporation of recycled and reused materials. The solid dining room tables are made from wood recovered from an old airport hangar in Fort Macleod. The handsome, heavy bench in the lobby was once a beam in a Calgary warehouse. The thin slate tiles engraved with room numbers once shed rain on the roof of the staff quarters. More eco-design information.
The Juniper Hotel is located within a known wildlife corridor. This is both privilege and responsibility. To better understand and respond to the wildlife in the area, The Juniper’s Developer, Arctos & Bird partnered with UTSB Research. Remote cameras monitor the slopes of Mount Norquay that rise behind the hotel. The behaviour these cameras captured will help us appropriately modify our human activity within the corridor.
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