Our environmental actions

Our ecological approach

At Glamping Terre & Mer, we champion a non-punitive approach to ecology : taking real action without making our guests feel guilty or sacrificing their comfort. The principle is simple. We ourselves bear the brunt of the effort, through our facilities and choices, and we invite everyone to participate as naturally as possible.

No moralizing, no greenwashing. Installations that sustainably reduce our consumption, and an approach that progresses each season.

Here, in concrete terms, is what we do.

🚲 Getting around differently

• - The area is entirely pedestrianized. Cars remain in the entrance parking lot. Pedestrians, bicycles and scooters move around freely and safely.
• - Upon arrival, we drive our clients and their luggage to their accommodation in an electric golf cart. Wheelbarrows in the parking lot remain available for shopping and luggage during and at the end of their stay.
• - We leave the car in the parking lot: The beach is a 7-minute walk away, the Ponto woods are directly accessible, and the shops in the centre are a quarter of an hour away.
• - Two charging stations for electric vehicles are installed in the parking lot.
• - Low carbon access is possible: Saint-Brieuc train station nearby, and BreizhGo 201 bus stop "rue Pasteur" in Étables-sur-Mer, 500 meters from the estate.
  

🪵 Wooden accommodations

• - 100% of our accommodations are made of wood: chalets, cabins, ecolodges, and cottages. Most of our communal buildings are also made of wood. No white mobile homes on the glamping site.
• - Exterior woodwork is maintained with a bio-based saturator, rather than with a classic stain of petrochemical origin.
• - Wood is an asset for the climate: it stores carbon sustainably throughout its life, whereas the manufacture of materials like concrete emits it. For the same volume, the difference amounts to hundreds of kilograms of CO2.
  

☀️ Mastering our energy

• - 36 photovoltaic panels, representing approximately 15 kWp of installed capacity, already equip several buildings (swimming pool, Komodo chalet, reception, storage area, parking chalet). More will follow as the work progresses.
• - Inertia heating in accommodations, complemented by the gradual deployment of heat pumps, which are more economical and more efficient.
• - 100% LED lighting, outdoor dusk-to-dawn and solar lighting.
• - Accommodation equipped with load shedding devices and insulated hot water pipes. Appliances selected from the most efficient on the market, including heat pump tumble dryers.
• - Remote control of some equipment and accommodations. When an accommodation remains unoccupied for several days, we can switch it off, after assessing the actual energy benefit of the operation.
• - Electrical maintenance equipment (excluding lawn tractor).
  

💧 Conserve water

• - 14 rainwater harvesting systems on the property, with a capacity of 7,500 litres, added as new buildings were constructed. Several of our year-round residents have made the same choice.
• - Hydrao Aloé shower heads coupled with thermostatic mixers in almost all accommodations: up to 70% water savings. Aerators on taps and water-saving shower heads at all water points.
• - Glass-filtered pool rather than sand: 10x finer filtration which saves several tens of cubic meters of water per year.
• - No chemical fertilizers or weed killers: manual maintenance of vegetation.
  

♻️ Reduce and recycle our waste

• - Organised selective sorting across the entire property, explained simply in the welcome booklet.
• - A freely accessible donation box: our customers leave items they no longer need so that they can be used by other vacationers, rather than being thrown away or bought new. A reuse initiative carried out with the network of Breton Reuse and Recycling Centers, supported by ADEME.
• - Composting of all bar waste: coffee grounds, mint, lemons.
• - Our chickens and goats make use of a large part of the food waste from the estate.
• - Digital customer reception and follow-up (welcome booklet and satisfaction questionnaire) to avoid printing hundreds of sheets per year. Paper brochures printed to a minimum.
• - Solid and eco-labeled bath products, soaps and kits assembled by sheltered workshops (ESATs). Paper straws, sugar dispensers, washable and reusable bed linen. Battery collection bin at reception.
  

🐦 Protecting biodiversity

• - Each year we plant several dozen trees and bushes, favouring robust evergreen species adapted to a warmer climate, and fruit trees useful to birds as well as to our customers.
• - As many shelters for birds as for humans: 31 accommodations = 31 nesting boxes. An additional thirty or so nesting boxes, insect hotels and shelters for bats, hedgehogs and ladybugs complete this network across the entire estate.
• - Selective Asian hornet traps, designed to spare local insects.
• - Our Ouessant sheep graze part of the estate and reduce the need for the tractor.
  

🧺 Buy local

• - Our store showcases more than 20 local products: spreads, dishes, drinks, cakes...
• - Cider and beers produced in Étables-sur-Mer. All our beers are Breton.
• - We indicate local markets in the welcome booklet to encourage local consumption.
• - In the summer and on certain long weekends, local food trucks set up in the estate square.
• - And even in our cocktails: the mint in our mojitos comes from our own plantation.
  

🧼 An interview using natural products

All accommodations and common areas are cleaned and disinfected using only natural products.

🤝 Everyone's participation is part of the adventure

A few simple actions make a real difference during your stay:

- Turn off lights and appliances when leaving a room.
- Turn off the heating when a window is open or when leaving.
- Turn off the water as soon as it is not in use, and aim for a short shower.
- Sort your waste according to the welcome booklet, and give your food scraps to the animals on the estate.
- And, more broadly, your common sense will always be valuable to us.

Nothing here is just a superficial argument. Our approach progresses each season through concrete actions, and it has no intention of stopping. This is who we are, not what we project.