It is a fact that not a lot of people know, but ski areas also have a huge impact on the environment. So the Ski Area Citizens Coalition is an organisation that makes an annual survey of environmental performance, where the resorts that take more efforts and steps to reduce their impact and supporting broader environmental improvement measures getting rewarded.
The group uses a complex scoring system to rank the resorts, to look at the factors like protecting sensitive terrain and habitat areas, use of renewable energy sources, water quality and protection, promotion of green political policies, and environmental reporting methods.
But very important is that resorts can lose easily a lot of points when they expand with even 100 acres. This is a factor that is strongly contested.
The group say that expansions aren’t needed and they harm the environment, because out statistics it shows that the number of skiers has remained more ore less the same since twenty years ago. Expansions driven by real estate development profits are against the public interest, these practices impact the public lands and also forests holdings.
If you want to see if your ski resort is “green”, you can always vist the website www.skiareacitizens.com
Source: Greenbiz.com
Skiareacitizens.com
Dimitri Delbeke
But very important is that resorts can lose easily a lot of points when they expand with even 100 acres. This is a factor that is strongly contested.
The group say that expansions aren’t needed and they harm the environment, because out statistics it shows that the number of skiers has remained more ore less the same since twenty years ago. Expansions driven by real estate development profits are against the public interest, these practices impact the public lands and also forests holdings.
If you want to see if your ski resort is “green”, you can always vist the website www.skiareacitizens.com
Source: Greenbiz.com
Skiareacitizens.com
Dimitri Delbeke
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