New Green Guide for Ski Resorts
UNITED KINGDOM, November 18, 2005. The Ski Club of Great Britain has launched a new on-line environmental guide. The first of its kind, this pioneering database on www.skiclub.co.uk will be a leading source of information about the eco-friendliness of ski resorts.
As well as providing key facts and figures, this brand-new tool rates over 200 worldwide resorts on recycling, green power use, traffic reduction, sewage management, climate policy and green building policy. It is the only one-stop service of its kind on the worldwide web.
The Ski Club has acknowledged that skiers and snowboarders need to recognise the reality of climate change, including the worrying trend of rising average temperatures and changing snowfall patterns. By using the Green Resort Guide when undertaking ski holiday research, the Ski Club believes users can now make decisions about where to ski based on the environmental activities of a resort.
Caroline Stuart-Taylor, Chief Executive of the Ski Club, said of the new database "By providing skiers and boarders with an environmental guide, we hope to drive up standards by highlighting the resorts that are doing a lot to help preserve the environment, as well as those that aren't doing much at all. We hope this guide will educate skiers, snowboarders, and the snowsports industry."
The Green Resort Guide is the next step in the Ski Club's Respect the Mountain campaign. Launched at the start of last winter season, this award-winning campaign was designed to raise awareness of environmental issues with regard to snowsports, giving advice on how people can adapt their behaviour to help preserve the mountains with a seven-step guide.
The Ski Club of Great Britain is the leading, independent not-for-profit snowsports club. Run by snowsports enthusiasts, the Ski Club is the voice of recreational skiers and snowboarders in the UK.
Visit the Green Resort Guide at http://www.skiclub.co.uk/skiclub/resorts/greenresorts/default.asp
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