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Green technologies and green tools are becoming the new style statement. People around the world are flocking to green technologies. The fear of carbon emission has caused the increasing acceptance of hybrid and electric vehicles by people around the world. Rising fuel prices and the quickly emptying oil fields around the world are also the reason for their increasing popularity. Now it is the turn of green buildings to be accepted throughout the world in the same way. It is North America's turn now where numerous buildings are following the green path and are being designed while keeping the environment in mind.

One such hotel has gotten the tag of the greenest hotel in North America. Planet Traveler is located in Toronto, Canada. It was opened by the green baron and environmental book publisher Tom Rand. This hotel follows extreme low carbon technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of its guests around the world. It is setting a new example for other hotels and buildings in Canada to follow and also show the advantages of adapting green technologies. These green technologies reduce the dependence of the hotel on external sources of energy and water. This is a hotel where even guests are pushed to save money and energy so that people can learn the importance of power conservation. Flyers are given out to promote the use of green ways of using various resources that can lead to reduced carbon footprint. The hotel also used energy from geothermal sources. The heat from geothermal vents is used in toilets and to control the temperature inside the hotel. Solar energy is used to light up the hotel. The entire hotel's lights are LED based and are only lit when they sense motion. Water is recycled around the entire hotel premises in places like dry cleaning.