Company: PEB
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001474098-25-000062
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Company: Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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 to promote our environmentally friendly values and social responsibility principles at our hotel properties and corporate headquarters. Since 2016, we have invested over $20 million in efficiency projects across our portfolio, including energy conservation, greenhouse gas emission reduction, water conservation and waste reduction. In 2024, these projects included installing kitchen devices to reduce cooking oil usage and waste, adding water dispensers in guestrooms to eliminate single-use plastic bottles, installing shower flow limiters and faucet flow controllers to control water flow rates and utility costs, and setting up rooftop planters to improve air quality and urban biodiversity and reduce heat absorption, lowering cooling costs. Furthermore, at some of our hotels, we upgraded certain lighting to LED bulbs, which consume less power, last longer and reduce maintenance costs while lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Our corporate office bottleless water dispenser continues to encourage reuse practices and reduced the use of plastic-bottled water, and we introduced composting, allowing us to reduce our general waste stream along with methane emissions from landfills. Our sixth annual Corporate Sustainability Report contains detailed information about our program, including highlights of the investments we have made and their benefits to the environment and the community.

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In addition to our climate-related initiatives, we are also deeply committed to honoring the sociocultural fabric of the communities in which our hotels and resorts operate. We were pleased to enhance our community engagement, philanthropic activities, and charitable donations in 2024. For example:

• We supported multiple charities, either directly or through the charitable matching program that Pebblebrook offers to its employees. These charities include, among others, Community of Hope, Shatterproof, Best Buddies, Alzheimer’s Association, Feeding America, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the World Central Kitchen;

• We encouraged employee wellness by organizing events such as a step challenge in support of the American Heart Association, and a self-care and Employee Appreciation Day during which the Company offered 20 chair massages and distributed over 35 appreciation gift bags, reinforcing the Company's commitment to employee mental health;

• The Company collected clothing items and feminine products for FAIR Girls Inc., a nonprofit aiding victims of human trafficking and vulnerable communities, and partnered with The National Center for Children and Families for the Angel Tree Program, inviting employees to donate gifts to children in the foster care system and ensuring they receive holiday presents during the holiday season; and

• The Company strengthened its commitment to