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The team that created thePopulus Hotelin downtown Denver, Colorado, isnt banking on thesustainable traveltrend for success.

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Thankfully, the building itself is a 13-floor, triangle-shaped wonder.

The building was designed byStudio Gang, an architecture firm based in Chicago.

Inside the rooms, the shape of the windows makes for luxuriously soft natural lighting.

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The restaurants, however, are the real shining stars of the building.

That aside, what they do with the food after its served is the most interesting thing.

80 million pounds of food are wasted annually in the United States.

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We like to call it from farm to table and back from table to farm.

The aprons are made by a local Denver husband and wife design team,Valentich.

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