- Tortuga Lodge actively support the community, collaborating in as many ways as possible. This includes donating rooms and meals for local cultural and environmentally related activities such as the Local Music Festival and the local Health Fair.
- They employ a solar energy system for heating the water in all rooms and the restaurant kitchen.
- A high-tech system of filters and ultraviolet lights purifies water to be 100% drinkable. This system also helps eliminate the use of bottled water.
- The swimming pool uses a system that works with regular salt instead of chlorine.
- They use Bio-Agua, a mix of 80 different tropical microorganisms that ferments solid and liquid waste to eliminate odour, reduce solid and decontaminate the effluent runoff in the septic and grey water system.
- Grey water produced by the lodge is treated by an Environmental Septic System, with two biodigesters that create methane gas used by the kitchen for cooking meals.
- On their request, the Costa Rican Electric Company insulated the Lodge’s high-voltage cables to avoid the electrocution of wildlife.
- Tortuga Lodge assists with local research programs. Bird tagging research is done every year in the reserve by Sea Turtle Conservation.
- They privately own, protect and preserve 5.9 hectares (14.75 acres) of old forest growth and secondary growth around the lodge grounds.