Green hotels are nothing new in San Francisco. Green Travel Hub lists over 30 hotels that offer various green practices ranging from recycling, reusing, and conserving to providing organic food and discounts for travellers driving hybrid cars. But now there's a new hotel in town aiming to out green them all. Although, to be honest, it's not all that new.

In its previous life, it was known as the Hotel Britton. But since its transformation by the Joie de Vivre boutique hotel chain from something old and rundown into something new, vibrant, and very, very green, it goes by a new name - Good Hotel. Good by name and good by nature. So good, in fact, that it's being promoted as the first hotel with a conscience, complete with a "philanthropy concierge" to help guest help others.

Interested guests, with time to spare, are hooked up with One Brick, a nonprofit group that needs volunteers to help restore wetlands or assist at food banks or other charity events. Plus, there's opportunity to participate in a carbon offset program to minimize the environmental impact of your stay.

The philanthropy theme continues in the hotel's business center with One Laptop Per Child computers (for each computer purchased by the hotel, a companion computer is directly shipped to needy children in developing countries).

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