SAM Coverage
Environment
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Eco Tip :: FREEAIRE REFRIGERATION
Keeping Things Cool from the Outside In Historically, reach-in commercial refrigerators and walk-in coolers have been highly inefficient. Cooling energy is lost to the…
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Effort In = Costs Out
A resort-wide focus on cutting energy costs led to big savings at Crested Butte. Even as prices of electricity, natural gas, and diesel have…
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Eco-Tip :: Biodiesel Alternative
Turning Kitchen Oil Into Snowcat Fuel Biodiesel: An organically produced, renewable resource, such as vegetable oils or recycled animal fat greases, that can be…
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Eco-Tip: Cleaner Sleds, Cleaner Air
Two- versus four-stroke snowmobiles. Just how polluting are snowmobiles? During a peak winter visitation day in Yellowstone National Park, snowmobilers using the standard two-stroke engine…
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Change is in the Wind
The Forest Service is looking at allowing wind power on its lands. Recently, I was speaking with someone at the Forest Service about wind…
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Eco-Tip :: Cutting Energy Costs, One Room At A Time
This issue’s Eco-Tip profiles a great way to reduce guest consumption of energy with Entergize. The hotel industry spends approximately 20 percent of its…
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Letters To The Editor :: March 2012
Wanted: Help for the ASTM Terrain Park Jumping Task Force-Jasper Shealy… What is Green? -Tom Kendrick. Wanted: Help for the ASTM Terrain Park Jumping…
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Construction Site :: May 2012
The last round of this past season’s construction before looking ahead. Customers had some great new upgrades this season, both on and off the hill.…
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Turn It Off
A no-idling policy helps the environment and the bottom line. Many areas have implemented a no-idling policy for resort vehicles, from maintenance trucks to…
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Letters :: Global Warming is Real
Seth Masia of Solar Today writes in response to Allen Best’s “A Slightly Skeptical Look at Global Warming” (May 2009). Global Warming Is RealI enjoyed…
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With Energy, Less is More
Here’s how one resort cut down on its emissions while beefing up its bottom line. In the ski industry we tell ourselves we are…
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Speak Out :: What, Me Worry?
Global Warming In an attempt to quickly extinguish any dissent, Seth Masia argues against the ideas presented in Allen Best’s story, “A Slightly Skeptical…
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Blue Pages :: Setpember 2009
BANKING ON EL NIÑO… FALLOUT FROM THE CREDIT CRISIS… WINTER PARK SKI TRAIN NOT DEAD YET… “DON’T MOVE FIREWOOD” CAMPAIGN EXPANDS… CHEER UP: YOU…
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Blue Pages :: March 2010
INTRAWEST SELLS RESORTS, GIRDS FOR DEAL… LAYINT IT ON THICK ON WEEKENDS… OPPOSING VIEWS ON GLOBAL WARMING… OLYMPIANS MAKE SPLASH IN SWIMSUIT ISSUE… MOBILE…
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Industry Reports :: May 2010
BRIAN HEAD ON THE MARKET… TAMARACK OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT… COHEE ACQUIRES SIERRA SUMMIT… DEER VALLEY WINS IN COURT AGAINST CHRISTY… BOSTON EXPO GETS NEW HOME……
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The Energy Squeeze
Areas that seek ways to cut energy costs are finding them almost everywhere they look. When Arapahoe Basin set a goal of shaving its…
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Mountain Spy :: November 2007
For this edition of Mountain Spy, our 007 Liz Eren queried ski areas about their “green-ness.” Also, in making her round of calls, our…
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Speak Out :: November 2007
Roger Lohr implores us to “Stop Vehicle Idling at Ski Areas.” German ski writer Christoph Schrahe and British ski writer Patrick Thorne tells us all…