French ski resort of Les Arcs-Bourg Saint Maurice has announced that it will commit to the ‘Flocon Vert’ label, as the resort continues to grow its sustainable development strategy. The ‘Flocon Vert’ was created in 2011 by the ‘Mountain Riders’ association, which has been working for over 20 years to help support mountain resorts work […]
Read More Les Arcs Commits to ‘Flocon Vert’ Sustainable Development StrategyAfter successful initial trials, Cairngorm Mountain ski area above Aviemore, which is currently still open for snowsports, has begun using hydrotreated vegetable oil across their mountain operations to help reduce our emissions by up to 90%. The oil is being used to power the centre’s fleet of snow clearing machines, its snow making fan guns, […]
Read More Scottish Ski Centre Switches to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil FuelBig Sky Resort in Montana has announced that they are now buying ‘Renewable Energy Credits’ equivalent to the annual electrical consumption of their 38 lifts. That means that an equivalent amount of green energy is produced to the power needed to run the lifts. “Lifts are obviously essential to our business – and they are […]
Read More Big Sky Buys Green Power For All of its Ski LiftsThe Norwegian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, WWF, working with clothing company Bergans, have launched an initiative to ‘Save the Seasons’ in a bid to have them added, and thus preserved, as part of UNESCO’s World Heritage list. Pyramids, temples, Stonehenge, reefs and… seasons? Everything previously included on UNESCO’s World Heritage list is either […]
Read More WWF Seek Global Support to Persuade UNESCO to add ‘Seasons’ to the World Heritage listWhat’s generally regarded as the world’s longest lift-accessed ski run, the famous Vallée Blanche above Chamonix, looks set to lose its status, for a large part of the winter at least, as climate change melts away the Mer de Glace glacier beneath it. The occasionally 20km long run, with a potential vertical descent of around […]
Read More World’s Longest Ski Run is Skiable in Full Less Often as Climate Change BitesA Swiss glaciologist, Felix Keller, has an ambitious plan to save the Morteratsch Glacier, the third largest and by volume the most massive glacier in the Eastern Alps, from melting away. Keller is concerned that rapid glacier melt caused by climate change will mean that the gradual melt water relied upon by Switzerland for water […]
Read More 30 Year, 100m Swiss Franc Plan to Save a Swiss GlacierThe Austrian Tirol ski resort of Ischgl has been declared climate-neutral by the German company ClimatePartner, which is described as, “the leading solution provider for climate protection measures.” Ischgl’s lift operators, Silvrettaseilbahn AG, have both worked to reduce their company’s CO2 emissions and offset the remaining CO2 through ClimatePartner, with the company then declaring Ischgl, […]
Read More Ischgl Declared ‘Climate Neutral’
