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Green technology for hotels in Sri Lanka

Hotels in Sri Lanka are usually booked out. The island is a popular with tourists. But many of the accommodations are aging, energy intensive and environmentally unfriendly. The hotel chain Jetwing is now trying to become carbon neutral by 2020.

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