appreciate nature and get into a natural state.  You go skiing and snowboarding without all the hugely consumptive energy intensive trapping of commercial skiing.”4

For ski areas, Goodman says it is important for them to come up with mass transportation for their clientele, only open the needed amount of lifts per day, and promote environmental initiatives to the public4. 

For this project, we decided to take a closer look at a number of ski areas, all of which are a different size and respect a variety of demographics. Killington is the largest mountain we investigated, followed by Smugglers Notch, and Middlebury College Snow Bowl.  We will hopefully be adding more ski areas to this list as time goes on. 

KILLINGTON

Since Killington Mountain Resort was bought out by Powdr Corporation and SP Land Co. in May 2007, environmental initiatives have been greatly improved and implemented compared to when the area was owned by the American Skiing Company.  Within one year the company has made a complete turnaround from its earlier environmental advances.  However, the mountain still has great potential towards implementing viable environmental initiatives such as using alternative fuels and customer offset programs.

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