Sustainable Practices in Hospitality: Fostering Community Growth and Empowerment
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What is the relationship between a hotel and the surrounding community? In what manners does it contribute positively, and in what ways does it potentially create competition? How does this dynamic evolve based on the hotel's geographical location?
Levar Jackson is the CEO and Founder of Yogh Group, a hospitality development and ownership company with patent-backed technologies. His goal is to make sustainable and impactful practices and technologies more cost effective than non-sustainable ones.
Jackson also wants to change the relationship between hospitality and surrounding communities, thereby creating a circular power economy and strengthening local communities.
Tune in to learn more and discover:
- How to make hotels community 'producers' rather than 'consumers' so they enrich surrounding communities
- Why tree planting is a highly ineffective carbon credit
- The most effective but also most expensive carbon capture method
- The difference between hotels that operate as competitors with surrounding communities and hotels that operate as producers for surrounding communities
- Why climate change is just as much a corporate problem as it is a personal one
Got a great idea for innovation, or just want to learn more about Yogh Group initiatives? Check out Yogh group.
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| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:41.3 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. My guest today is Lavar Jackson. |
| 0:43.3 | We're going to talk about new patent and technologies for AG generation. |
| 0:46.3 | He's part of the Y-O-G-H, and I wanted to turn on the recording as soon as I could, because |
| 0:51.3 | he's already giving me all this interesting stuff before we start recording. But welcome, Lavar. Thanks for coming. Thank you for having me. It's exciting to be on your podcast. Well, tell me a bit about your background, and let's talk about what the Yoke Group is, what your front of activities are after that. Well, if you start at the beginning, I've done every job imaginable except food service because I'm incredibly clumsy. I can cook. I'll drop it |
| 1:12.4 | all in a second. But I had spent about 15 years working in hospitality, you know, selling art |
| 1:18.1 | to hotels and really striving forward towards being something more sustainable. And I had come |
| 1:23.6 | across a substrate that you could use on canvas that would make them recyclable. Typically, substrates that you put on canvases, when you sell them to hotels, they have to be thrown out because they're non-recyclable. They're one-time used. You know, the guest comes in and does the fun things, but the art has to be very resilient, I would say. So if you're the person that comes in, the hotel turns the lights on, turns to the |
| 1:44.2 | AC or the, you know, the change of the thermostat, then you go take a shower with the door open, |
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