Environment
The hotel encourages guests and staff alike to participate in environmental volunteering projects such as the Adopt-a-Beach and Coastal Cleanup programs.
Adopt-a-Beach (http://ecomb.org/programs/litter-prevention/adopt-a-beach-program/)
This program is a partnership project between the City of Miami Beach and ECOMB.
Be part of the solution to marine pollution! Join our first Trash Bash for 2012 which is not just about litter. It’s about the need for clean oceans, shorelines, and waterways. It is about residents and visitors working together to create permanent solutions to shoreline and marine debris.
The Palms Hotel & Spa has adopted the beach between 29th and 32nd streets and will be hosting clean-ups on the following dates:
- Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:00-5:30pm
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Registration & Tee-shirt distribution @ the Tiki Cabanas
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Adopt-A-Beach Clean-up between 29th & 32nd Street
From 5:30 p.m. Poolside Happy Hour for Volunteers
International Coastal Clean-up
(www.oceanconservancy.org/our-work/marine-debris/international-coastal-cleanup-11.html)
Over the past 25 years, Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup has become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Nearly nine million volunteers from 152 countries and locations have cleaned 145 million pounds of trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers, and the ocean on just one day each year.
This year the event is taking place on TBA. Email tmorariu@thepalmshotel.com fo rfurther details.
Health
The hotel, Essensia Restaurant and its staff volunteer time to change the way children eat and to help reverse the trend of child obesity in the US. Some of the projects we are involved in are:
- Miami-Dade Public Schools Department of Food and Nutrition together with the Let’s Move Initiative by Michelle Obama have created a Chef Partnership Program, where local celebrity Chefs Michelle Bernstein, Kris Wessel, Ken Lyon and the hotels’ very own Executive Chef Frank Jeannetti have partnered with schools that are in the same neighborhood as their respective restaurants. Engaging students and staff in culinary arts skills and expanding nutritional knowledge are important steps to improving eating habits and increasing meal participation through a fresh approach to school food service. The Chefs work with the food service staff at their schools on a monthly basis creating wholesome and healthy dishes for the students. The dishes they create will find their way into the cafeteria’s of all Miami-Dade public schools further down the line. www.dadeschools.net; http://news.dadeschools.net/releases/rls10/308_chef.html
- Common Threads is a charity that teaches low-income children to cook wholesome and affordable meals. Their philosophy believes that through hands-on cooking classes childhood obesity can be prevented and the trend of generations of non-cookers reversed, while celebrating cultural differences and the things people all over the world have in common. Their mission is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being, and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking. The hotel’s Executive Chef, Frank Jeannetti, teaches some of these classes and the hotel supports the charity with fundraisers and donations. http://www.commonthreads.org/
- AIWF Days of Taste is a program organized by the American Institute of Wine and Food in collaboration with Whole Foods with the objective to bring healthy food exploration to elementary school classrooms in communities across the nation. Chef Jeannetti regularly teaches these classes both on premises and at Whole Foods. http://www.aiwf.org/site/days-of-taste.html
