Fun, sorta. What is your favorite place for a retreat? And what is essential to a good retreat?

[Rick Yoder <ryoder@mail.unomaha.edu>]

Hi, all - apologies for the cross posting...

A local operation is considering retooling
its 100 acre wood (with cabins and meeting facilities) to become an eco-friendly,
sustainable, facility for eco-friendly sustainability types.  

I know you all have your favorite local
places to go to for planning retreats - any that you would care to suggest
as models?  I know of two or three with different strenghts - and
they are not all at the top end of the scale - it takes a while to move
from where you are to where you want to be, after all...

PLACES - please suggest one or two:
Lied Lodge & Conference center is
a on the big side; this facility is going to stay rustic and is certainly
not building a 144room hotel - 
http://www.liedlodge.org/about/

Shadowcliff is probably the most like
what this operation has in mind - rustic - 
http://shadowcliff.org/

Woods Hole Research Center- Someone
help me here - is this the place where WasteWatch had its meetings in the
early 90's?  Wow, look at what happened to it with the help of mcdonough....
http://www.mcdonoughpartners.com/projects/woodshole/default.asp?projID=woodshole

INDICATORS - please let me know what
would be a must have or a deal breaker for you in order to hold a meeting/retreat:
It appears to me that the Xanterra Corporation
has a pretty good handle on how it does things - some actual measurements
for this small operation to aspire to:
http://www.xanterra.com/environmental-performance-375.html

Thanks,

Rick

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