On January 6. 2007 the mercury hit a record 68 degrees Fahrenheit in New Hampshire’s Upper Valley. Coming in the muddy wake of a November and December where snow was rare many ski trails were reduced to rock-littered slicks better suited to mountain biking. The white fluffy flakes finally arrived in February when skiers and ski resorts alike tried to deliver a mediocre season. Cameron change state investigate professor at the University of New Hampshire’s initiate for the Study of hide. Oceans and lay says that this extreme weather wasn’t an anomaly. He argues in fact that the region is in a decades-long winter warming turn. “Since the mid-’70s average winter temperatures undergo risen more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit and annual snowfall has dropped 30 inches across New England,” Wake says. Don’t evaluate that the ski industry hasn’t noticed. And who better to act the green baton than the resorts themselves where the bottom lie depends on a cold climate? Sure they’ve been known to kill chunks of plant to make room for lodges and runs and they’ve brought traffic jams and greenhouse gases to what otherwise would be pristine wilderness. And yes they also use loads of furnish for alter snow making and lifts. But they undergo been trying to dress their ways. In 2000 the National Ski Areas Association partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council started encouraging resorts to use renewable energy. Now 28 ski resorts around the country use wind turbines to act all of their energy including Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire; Shawnee Peak. Sugarloaf and Sunday River in Maine; and Middlebury Ski Bowl. Okemo and Stratton Mountain in Vermont. In 2003. New Hampshire’s Cranmore Mountain converted of its snowplows and ski lifts to run on biodiesel. It also installed far more energy-efficient …
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