MISSION SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
FOR A MORE INTACT NATURE, FOR OUR FUTURE, THAT OF OUR CHILDREN AND FOR AN ECOLOGICALLY CLEANER FOOTPRINT
SMALL DEEDS HAVE A BIG IMPACT
Mission Sustainability - improving the world with small deeds:
- Much of our food comes from the region
- Pool heating via solar panels
- All our roofs are green (more on this below)
- Plant selection around the island is adapted to bees and co.
- Bicycle rental on site
- E-charging stations - the nearest Tesla charging station is at Rothenburger Str. 55 in 02906 Niesky (32 km away).
- Coffee capsules in the rooms are 95 % ecologically degradable
- We donate 3 euros from every Sleep Green booking to a regional and a global environmental organisation (more on this below)
- Digital guest folder in the rooms (paper-saving)
- Print media made of recyclable natural paper, envelopes made of grass paper
- Cosmetic products in the rooms and in the massage area are 100 % from nature
- Business bicycles for staff
- An internal Green Team for environmental protection on and around our island
- Clean Up at the lake, more information will be announced via our Facebook page
- Upcycling projects, we give our island products a second life: One example is our redeemed wood vouchers. Wood vouchers redeemed and handed in by our guests are recycled into drink vouchers by our Green Team.
- IMPAKT KLUB Community - Member of a sustainable shopping community of TUTAKA
- Social Sustainability Island Team
And many more ideas and projects for the environment are being created.
Our island is award winner of the "Oberlausitzer entrepreneur award 2022"
for "Sustainable entrepreneurial action in challenging times"
Sleep Green
Conscious vacationing – your contribution to the environment
Sleep Green
Conscious and sustainable vacationing – enjoy the feeling of actively supporting our environment with your stay. We consciously refrain from daily room cleaning. Of course, we replenish coffee capsules, tea, and the minibar for you every day.
Let's work together – for the sake of the environment!
On request, you are welcome to register for a free interim cleaning for the following day at the reception desk by 11 a.m. For longer stays, we automatically clean your room from the third night onwards.
Travel Green
Are you traveling to our island by train? We would like to thank train travelers, also on behalf of nature. Show your train ticket at check-in and you will receive a free rental bike for one day.
The Hagenwerder train station is less than a 15-minute walk from our island.
Have you already booked your accommodation with us? Great, then let us know about your commitment to the environment when you arrive.
habitat for biodiversity
OUR GREEN ROOFS - FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRESERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS:
Water retention
- Water retention 40-99% of annual precipitation retained
- Energy savings through thermal insulation in winter
- Heat protection and natural air conditioning in summer
Climate protection
- microclimate improvement through cooling and air humidification and CO2 binding
Noise reduction
- airborne sound insulation and reduced sound reflection
Dust filter
- air purification and fine dust filtering
Nature conservation and biodiversity
- green roofs serve as mitigation measures, replacement habitat and stepping stone biotopes
Habitat for birds and insects
- provide breeding habitats for a large number of ground-nesting bird species.
Green roofs are not only beautiful and add a special touch to a roof. Since we started, we have provided over 800 m² of our roof areas with intensive and extensive green roofs. We are thus making an important contribution to a better environment and to the preservation of biodiversity. In addition to a variety of houseleeks and buttercups, there are also perennials, grasses and herbs.
our lovely region
A MATTER OF THE HEART
GENUINE AND CLOSE TO NATURE!
Sustainability and regionality are important to us!
Our region offers food and drinks of a very special kind - handmade and close to nature:
- Palpable love and dedication for over 100 years. - Bakery Geißler from Ostritz
- Vegetables, herbs and salads in very high quality - RainKost from Görlitz
- Fine and intensive - honey - organic beekeeper Büchner from Markersdorf
- Fine handmade cheese from happy cows. - Community Lindenhof from Markersdorf
- High quality - eggs and poultry - Berghäuserhof Familie Zelyk from Markersdorf
- Craft Beer brewed with heart and mind the "Inselblume" - Our house beer - from Bierblume from Görlitz
- 100 % taste and best quality - Linke fruit juices from Ebersbach-Neugersdorf
- 150 years of brewing craft from Görlitz - Landskronbrauerei
charity projects
Our donation for the white stork in Upper Lusatia
Our island is a retreat—not only for you as a guest, but also for nature. Since the beginning, we have placed great importance on environmental awareness, regionality, and active sustainability. With our “Sleep Green” program, we focus on conscious renunciation instead of waste: no daily room cleaning, but an even greater contribution to our environment. The resources saved are thus directly invested in projects that are close to our hearts. Guests are welcome to request room cleaning if they wish.
This year, we are supporting the white stork project at Görlitz Zoo with €3,000. The project not only includes the restoration of nests, but also the care of injured storks in the wildlife station and their release into the wild – a significant contribution to species protection in our region. Together with the Görlitz-Zgorzelec Nature Conservation Zoo, we want to enable the white stork to continue living in its native habitat.
With your stay, you are actively supporting animal and species conservation – thank you for joining forces with us.
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Donation project 2021
3,000 euros for Future for Wildlife
The Upper Lusatia region offers a wide and, above all, unique variety of species. Animal species live here that have long since disappeared from other parts of Germany. The zoo is already involved in grazing projects around Lake Berzdorf.
Donation project 2020
A small lake for the big seas.
Cleaning up the oceans and rivers Donating together for The Ocean
Donate together for The Ocean Cleanup
Cleanup Every year, millions of tons of plastic end up in the oceans, most of it coming from rivers. Some of this plastic migrates to the garbage patches of the ocean and is caught in a vortex of circulating currents. If no action is taken, plastic will have an increasing impact on our ecosystems, health, and economy. The Ocean Cleanup organization has set itself the goal of cleaning up 95% of the garbage patches in the oceans and rivers and also eliminating the sources of pollution
For the future of healthy and vibrant forests in Saxony
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Donate together for NABU Saxony
"Climate change has also reached the forests in Saxony. Warm and dry springs and summers will cause our forest trees even more problems in the future than they already do today. However, forests not only suffer from climate change, they also actively contribute to mitigating climate change by storing carbon and producing oxygen. Forests are therefore not only of particular importance for the plants and animals of the forest ecosystem, but also serve as a basis of life for the people of Saxony." Find out more at NABU Saxony.