Environmental Protection
Internal actions
- Eco-responsible employee charter
- Sorting of waste
- Dog waste bags are available upon request.
- Display and distribution of SICOVAD documentation
- Prioritization of supplies from local service providers and suppliers: printers, office supplies, etc.
- Sending mail by green letter (more economical, ecological, less CO² emissions)
- Dematerialization of meetings and training as far as possible.
- Reasoned and controlled professional travel (carpooling, etc.).
Paper saving actions
- We adapt our stocks to actual demand.
- We systematically print double-sided and limit printing to documents useful to visitors. We print on demand.
- We encourage visitors to download or receive the requested documentation by email rather than systematically sending it by mail.
- We systematically use draft for our daily work.
- Publication of our brochures on PEFC-certified paper.
Actions aimed at the public
- We have drafted “The hiker's charter” and posted SICOVAD's recommendations in order to encourage visitors to follow the guidelines of sustainable development and to respect our environment.
- We display our commitments in terms of sustainable development in the tourist office and on our website.
Partners
The partners of the Tourist Office who are involved in ecotourism, ecology, permaculture, organic products, AOPs, AOCs are (non-exhaustive list):
- The terraced gardens in Plombières-les-Bains
- A fig in the pear tree in Girmont-Val-d'Ajol
- GAEC Balandier in Girmont-Val-d'Ajol
- The Little Mill Farm in Val d'Ajol
- Daval Butcher in Val d'Ajol
- Jean-Luc Husson butcher shop in Val d'Ajol
- At the Vosges smokehouse in Val d'Ajol
- Stella's honey house in Plombières-les-Bains
- Entomological gardening in Val d'Ajol