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    logo-ecolabelOur environmental approach for an eco-friendly and sustainable tourism accessible for all

    Protecting the environment from planetary risks arising from global warming are nowadays a major concern for everyone

    Les Saules eco-gites have committed themselves to a sustainable eco-friendly initiative aimed at:

    • Reducing human impact on nature.
    • Preserve natural resources and enhance our rich local heritage.
    • Reducing pollution.

    Our commitments were acknowledged when we obtained the official European Ecolabel awarded by Afnor Certification. This label is worldwide and is a definite warrant of environmental quality. This initiative concerns us all.

    Up to now, our company has implemented many actions

    • Using 100% sustainable energy sources,
    • Rainwater collection for on-site sanitation, washing machines, outdoor taps and strict water management .
    • Wood stove, log boiler and wood pellet heater with local wood supply facilities,
    • Waste water treatment by phyto purification,
    • Enhancing waste recycling,
    • Incitement via soft mobility,
    • Built heritage preservation and short circuit energy rehabilitation (local materials and crafts),
    • Organic vegetable plot, permaculture, endemic plants, LPO bird sanctuary...

    This initiative concerns us all, everyone at their level can contribute to the environment.

    Our team will be pleased to talk to you about our policies and actions whenever you like.

    Renewable energies and electricity saving

    Energies renouvelables et économie électrique

    A thermal survey will enable our architect to provide a detailed description of the different posts involved in order to comply with the regional specifications related to thermal improvement and saving (BBC 2012 standards ).

    We have finally chosen a log boiler facility  with 8  radiators heating 220 m2 at low temperature in La Grange.La Longère will be equipped with a wood pellet boiler and 2 log boiler burning stoves.

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    Water saving – rain water collect- dry toilet project

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    Rainwater collection

    The renovated roofs covering 250 m2 allow us to collect rainwater. We entrusted the project to a company called Loiretpluie.

    2 vats are buried , water is filtered first and then is redistributed in the network.

    A technical cupboard enables filtering and triggers an alarm when the vats go empty.

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    Waste reducing and recycling

    Recycling containers

    Pouligny St Pierre council hasn’t yet supplied every village household with selective recycling containers.

    There is only one place with a garbage container and containers for glass and paper.

    Yellow bags are stored in the same container as grey bags.
    Local authorities still don’t take the responsibility of eliminating dangerous waste.
    Recycling in your gite :
    Every gite is equipped with a minimum of 4 selective waste recycling including the traditional garbage container.

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    Sustainable mobility of our guests

    Sustainable mobility of our guests

    Sustainable development implies necessarily to rethink our transport and mobility from the point of view of environment and lifestyle protection.

    For short journeys there are other ways to travel than driving: the Douadic village ( bar, grocery shop) is only 4 kms away from our gite and the Le Blanc town (with all the facilities) 10kms away using the green path from Pouligny Saint Pierre.

    We have obtained the «  Bikes welcome » label for our Gîtes

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    Short circuit energy and agro materials

    Short circuit energy and agro materials

    The building short-circuit energy networks , a key development actor of the Brenne. Extract from publication Number  180 summer 2011 in country farmhouses in France.

    "We use tiles, soil, sand, chalk , stone and wood to improve insulation, thatch : straw:  linseed, hemp and gorsebush.."
    Our partnership with the local Nature Park aims at bringing together local artisans and entrepreneurs who use local materials and use traditional techniques.

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    Sanitation by phyto purification

    Sanitation by phyto purification

    Water is vital for life but it is also a rarefied resource deeply affected by pollution. Therefore water management and protection is essential to guarantee life, men’s, animals’ and plants’ need of this priceless resource
    Sanitation by plants is an interesting alternative to consider for a building project as well as a renovation project.
    An ecological, autonomous, aesthetic, efficient and innovative system costing no more than a traditional installation.

     

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