One Planet: What Alpine Meadows is Doing

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Alpine Meadows’ proactive environmental projects – including biodiesel fuel use, summer native plant revegetation projects, and extensive recycling programs – have certainly been received with open arms; but its what the resort doesn’t do that has gained national attention.

Alpine Meadows supports the Truckee Donner Land Trust and the Truckee Trails Foundation by participating in the locally popular Open Space & Trails ongoing fundraiser. Alpine Meadows will have Open Space & Trails information at several retail locations, giving guests the opportunity to learn about the Land Trust and Trails Foundations’ mission, which quite literally, is to preserve and protect important historic, recreational, and scenic open spaces in the greater Truckee region.

Alpine Meadows also supports the Bonneville Environmental Foundation which focuses on restoring watersheds in the Pacific Northwest and exploring and developing renewable energy sources in Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado. BEF is a nonprofit organization committed to providing individuals and winter ski/snowboard resorts access to renewable energy; protecting and restoring watershed ecosystems; and furthering the use of solar and wind energy and the development of wind and solar energy sources. The Ski Green program is BEF‘s grass-roots initiative to educate winter sports enthusiasts of renewable energy options.

Alpine Meadows Ski Resort now sells $2 SkiGreen Tags in its retail store, base lodge dining area, ski school desk, and lift ticket windows. Each purchase is a contribution which equates to 150 miles of not driving a car – or prevents 140 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere.