Eco friendly cottages
There are 8 eco friendly cottages and a shepherd’s hut at Treshnish on Mull.
Environmental management
We were members of the Green Tourism Business Scheme for several decades, holding a Silver Award first and then a Gold for over 20 years. Making the most educated and environmentally responsible decisions has been central to our lives for as long as we can remember, and running Treshnish is enveloped in the same process. In spite of not being members of the GTBS currently we strive to continue improving the sustainability of our eco friendly cottages.
We were the first eco friendly cottages in Scotland to win both the GTBS Goldstar Award and the Carbon Footprint Award at the inaugural Green Tourism awards in 2011. ‘One of the ‘top 10′ Green Tourism Businesses in the UK’ according to Andrea Nicholas, GTBS.
Our ethos after 30+ years at Treshnish is essentially still the same, though we are better at achieving our goals now than back when we first started out along this path. We want to improve the environmental performance of our eco friendly cottages business as much as we can – whether it is protecting young trees so they can grow or insulating a cottage so it becomes more energy efficient.Planning and doing
We think of the future when making decisions for today; continue to monitor our energy consumption; responsibly source and use materials; support our local community and re-use/reduce/recycle.
Adopting domestic scaled renewables to generate electricity has helped reduce our carbon footprint. And also, we are now generating 80% of our annual requirements.
We welcome your thoughts too, whilst you are here, if there is any aspect of sustainability that you think we could improve upon.
