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Joshua Wilton House Inn & Restaurant
 | Joshua Wilton House Inn & Restaurant |
Joshua Wilton House is located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley in historic Harrisonburg. The Inn features five rooms furnished with restored period antiques and reproductions. The restaurant features award winning dining with changing menus. Facilities are available for private parties and in-house catering and wedding planning is available. Joshua Wilton House is committed to environmental excellence and works to minimize environmental impacts whenever possible.
Green Lodging Activities:
When visiting Joshua Wilton House, you can expect the following practices:
- Provides optional linen service in rooms
- Offers recycling opportunities to guests
- Practices water & energy conservation
- Offers a green events/conference package
- Preventative maintenance of drips and leaks
- High efficiency HVAC using natural gas and individual thermostats
- Lighting sensors
- High efficiency compact fluorescent lighting
- Storm windows
- Directional lighting outdoors
- Integrated pest management plan in place
- Minimization of impervious surfaces
- Effectively timed application of organic fertilizers
- Use of native vegetation
- Use of glasses, dishware, etc instead of disposables
- Paper, cardboard, can, bottle, newspaper, scrap metal recycling
- Effective food inventory management
- Grease recycling
- Water efficient washers – those that reuse or filter wash waters
- Energy efficient dryers
- Linen segregation for lightly soiled loads
- Purchase of recycled content paper
- Purchase of durable/well-made products w/long life
- Policies for 2-sided copying and printing
- Purchasing from vendors with commitment to the environment
- Last in/first out inventory
- Eliminating use of aerosols
- Recycling of vehicle fluids
- Use of latex paints
- Reuse/donation of unused materials
- Use of sustainable building materials (carpets)
- Reused building materials (vintage flooring, beams, stonework)