Grand Targhee Wins Golden Eagle Award
May 16th, 2009Posted in Skiing in the Tetons
Congrats to my wonderful local ski hill, Grand Targhee, for winning the 2009 Golden Eagle Award for Overall Environmental Excellence by a ski resort at the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) National Convention and Tradeshow going on in Florida. As I noted last month, Grand Targhee became the “first organization in North America” to have its greenhouse gas emissions inventory registered in the Climate Registry’s online reporting tool, the Climate Registry Information System (CRIS), and achieve the status of Climate Registered™. Signing up with the Climate Registry and the resort’s other efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and its work at educating the public and its employees about climate change earned Targhee the award.
I applaud Grand Targhee’s owners and management for their efforts and their leadership in the ski industry in the important work of fighting climate change. I’m very glad they are being recognized by their peers. It would be cool if they could become a repeat winner next year and really give other ski resorts something to aspire to.
Just a minor kvetch, if the NSAA is serious about fighting climate change, why on earth is it holding its annual convention at Marco Island, Florida? Marco Island is hardly centrally located to anywhere in the US where ski areas are located, so every attendee has to travel further to get to Florida, and extra travel by jet only aggravates the greenhouse gas emission problem.
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