Vermont Ski Industry’s 668 Green Projects To Save 1.77 Billion Tons of CO2

The state of Vermont has long been a leader in the “green movement” by promoting best practices regarding the environment. That same ideology is a guiding force throughout the state’s ski industry. Efficiency is a top priority in the design and implementation of everything from snowmaking and equipment to the utensils in base lodge eateries. […]

Green Electricity from Snowfall

Researchers at UCLA have engineered a device that can generate electricity from falling snow. Christened a “snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator” or snow TENG for short, it works by taking advantage of the fact that snow is positively charged and the silicone the device uses is negatively charged. When the falling snow comes into contact with the […]

Woman Achieves 10 Years of Monthly Scottish Skiing Despite Climate Change

A Scottish skier has overcome numerous obstacles to make some turns on Scottish snow every month of the year for ten straight years. Helen Rennie began her mission, then aged 55, in 2009 when recovering from cancer. That was a particularly snowy winter and Helen found it easy to find snow to ski through 2010. […]

Tignes Delays Autumn Opening Planned For Saturday – Blames Global Warming

French ski resort Tignes has just announced it won’t be opening the French 2019-20 ski season this weekend as planned, as snow conditions on the glacier aren’t yet good enough. It’s the second autumn in a row the resort has missed it’s usual opening date and it’s target of offering snowsports every month of the […]

Four of Six Largest Ski Regions in France Now 100% Green Electricity Powered

Four of the six largest ski regions in France are now reported to be powered by 100% green energy, in most cases using locally sourced hydro power. Les Sybelles, one of the world’s biggest ski areas and the fourth biggest in France with more than 300km of slopes, nearly 150 runs and 70 ski lifts […]

New Pyrenees Gondola Will Cut CO2 Emissions

A new gondola has opened in the French Pyrenees which will lead to reduced road traffic from the Louron Valley up to the ski area of Peyragudes this season. The new Skyvall gondola, with a price tag of €10m, has its base station located north of Loudenvielle near Balnéa and its upper station on the […]

Ski Flight Free Campaign Launched

A new not-for-profit independent campaign called Ski Flight Free has been launched by ski-industry digital marketing consultant Iain Martin, with the goal of encouraging skiers to reduce their CO2 emissions when travelling to ski resorts. “Independent research has shown that travelling to a ski resort by train generates less than one fifth of the emissions […]

Jackson Hole Switches to 100% Locally Sourced Wind Power

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming, USA, has switched to 100% wind-generated electricity, for its year round operations, effective immediately. The resort has signed up to Lower Valley Energy’s (LVE) 100% Green Power program, sourcing wind power from Horse Butte Wind Farm in neighbouring Idaho; the closest wind energy source directly tied to Lower Valley’s […]

Belgian Rail to Offer On-Train Ski Fitting Service To French Alps

Train company Thalys is running a direct ski service from Belgian capital Brussels to leading French ski resorts from December 21st, 2019 to April 11, 2020. Services will travel from Antwerp and Brussels to Chambéry, Albertville, Moûtiers, Aime la Plagne, Landry and Bourg-Saint-Maurice providing access to some oif the world’s leading ski areas including Les […]

4th Biggest French Ski Region Goes 100% Green-Energy Powered

Les Sybelles, one of the world’s biggest ski areas (4th biggest in France) with more than 300km of slopes, nearly 150 runs and 70 ski lifts inter-connecting half-a-dozen resorts in the Maurienne region is the latest to announce that all of its electricity needs will be met by 100% renewable energy sources. From this winter […]