WE CAN'T SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

hmmm. my first thought is that "saving the environment" is for hippies. Environmentalists seem like extremists, but maybe there is some truth to some of their talk.

I would laugh so hard if anyone skied down that and right into the water..

maybe someone could right a note to the president warning him about global warming and tell him to pay a closer attenction on it. me and my friend once wrote a letter to the president telling him we were sorry about wat hapenned on 9/11. He wrote bacck saying that he was honored that we wrote a note, and that he appreciated it alot.

well, actually im not saying thats gonna work, but it might help

Yeah, if everyone sends letters to the governments that aren't angry letters(because then they'd just zone out), we could make something happen.
NS is big enough to make a difference, and the incentive is skiing for us in our later years, and skiing for children and grandchildren in later generations.

is it the irony of the massive ship?

^That is definitely a good idea

A lot of resorts have really stepped up to decrease pollution. I've heard that all four Aspen resorts use renewable energy, which is a huge feat. If more resorts could use renewable energy, then we would cut down on pollution, cost, and harm to the environment.

Check out this link.

http://www.aninconvenienttruth.co.uk/

Tells you the problems and the solutions. Rent the movie for the full perspective.

This will put to rest those that believe:
1 - The government has to change before we do.
2 - Cattle is the problem
3 - Global warming is a cycle.
4 - The ocean is getting warmer due to ice melt.

ya, really do hope people contribute to helping the envirement recover, so are sport of skiing can remain that mush longer

people just dont care because they think it will not happen in there lifetime

many just hear global warming, the truth is that its global climate change where some areas are actually getting colder, this will allow more year round skiing woo!

True, but craziness will still happen, and many of our mountains will go like europe earlier this year. We should still try to make a difference.

overall, the world is getting hotter.

Um, well, concerning the global warming CO2 factor(if it's really the cause, which it isnt); Why not construct a lot of cyanobacterial fields in random ass places like Utah, and other deserts where there isnt shit. it would be extremely cheap to maintain, and produce a lot of O2 fixation with the oxidation of CO2. But CO2 isnt the cause of global warming, its sunspots and subatomic particles.

im not gonna do anything

exactly!

Hmmmm, yes those are the only two reasons. WTF? most reputable scientists disagree with your statement, but I don't understand why there is an argument about global warming to begin with.

Do you really think that all the shit we put in the air is good for us? our environment?

Think of all the cars, all the pollution coming out of the powerplants. You think this is good for the environment? Live in the city? than you inhale a lot more shit and that sucks. We need to fix this shit.

Every state needs much stricter emissions laws. We need to ban sales of inefficient light bulbs. We need to have recycling every where. And why do we need those little paper liners that go on your tray when you get your food at mcdonalds. I don't even need any of the wrappers. They wash all those trays anyway. We need to start getting shit done now. We need to figure out how to get our voices heard.

Talk to your home mountain. Ask them to use wind energy. Vail is now using wind energy for every lift. And all their snowmobiles are 4-cycle(better). Most big ski areas in colorado are moving that direction. I think we can truly help this kind of thing happen. Recycling to. I know that most ski areas would claim different, but are horrible about recycling.

can we hear more about your idea?

If we used hemp as our principle fabric we would save hella greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere from the production of cotton fibers and fabrics. Its much more environmentally sound to prepare hemp. I guess not with a gay ass republican in office tho...

dude, global warming will lead to the next ice age which will mean epic winters for skiers for all nations for the next years to follow until all food sources get depleted and we all die. so it's going to be infinite face shots and bottomless pow with no need to worry about school because we're all fucked anyways.

VailMountain - 100% Powered By Wind.
As the second largest company in the country to use 100 percent wind power, we continue to strengthen our commitment to the environment. Each year, we purchase 152,000 megawatt-hours of wind credits to offset 100% of our electricity use. This decision reduces over 211 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year, which is the same as removing 18,000 cars from the road.
Vail still produces a lot of trash and stuff, but this makes me want to buy a pass there next year.

Can you name a reputable scientist? Do you know any reputable scientists? do you even know what you are talking about? If you explain to me the global CO2 cycle, then I will listen to you with an open ear, other than that, you are just an ignorant child who listens to everything that the TV tells you.

I was listening to you with an open ear that's why I asked for more info on your idea. I am an ignorant child who listens to everything TV tells me? I don't watch tv. I don't own a tv. Who just made an ignorant statement? "do you even know what you are talking about"? Obviously you don't. Bitch.

basically, if you watch an inconveniant truth, you will get all the info. i am too lazy to type this all up.

The damage of global warming is done and cant be stopped even if all humans died right this moment

If that's true, that's all the more reason to figure something out.

I mean, there has to be away to stop it, whatever is causing it. We need to get out stuff together and figure it out, not just give up.

looks like avi country to me

i weep.

some things i do to save energy and to save the planet ...

1) riding me bike instead of the car
2) when buying fruit or vegetables, i check to see where they come from, by example tomatoes can come from south africa or shit or they can come from your back yard, that makes a great difference in emission ...
3) economical use of electricity ( there still are a helluvalot powerplants making energy from charcoal or oil..., especially in china )
4) i go to the shop with a backpack instead of using all these stupid plastic-one-time-use-bags....
5) and so on...


oh yeah, i'm happy nobody responded that they plant trees to produce more O2 cuz thts fukin bullshit, 90 % or something of all O2 is produced by algae and bacteria in the oceans...

actually for the cattel thing, farms can start using methane for fueling their own farm by buying a digester

Kudos to you on that one...

It's nice to see that the majority of ski resorts have jumped on the environmental sustainability bandwagon and are actively pursuing improvements to their current way of things. But what about ski brands? They also rely heavily on the changes to our environment and I haven't seen much out of any of them to help spearhead a corporate enviro-change? It seems that Salomon and Atomic are supporting a couple of NFP groups, but what are they doing to be sustainable in the manufacturing practices? I'm curious to know when they'll fully jump on board ...

haha!!

Chemtrails! Chemtrails! Chemtrails! They're everywhere!!!! AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

Well it's basically my goal in life to help save the environment. I am working towards an Environmental Chemical Engineering degree, and working at Mobile Environmental Technologies, a company that gets hired to clean up drilling sludge/fertilizer runoff/VOCs/hydrocarbon fuel contamination/etc. And I can tell you this - the stuff YOU do WILL make a difference! We can take down emissions so much just by doing simple things like using plastic as little as possible, using public transportation or biking, and doing simple "cliche" things like that. 

Although I personally think you'd have to be crazy to not see that global warming is a real problem created by humans, even if you totally disagree with me, you still have to see that polluting our world so much is a terrible idea. Even if you don't think what we are seeing now is caused by us, it's just a better policy to conserve and be conscious of what you're doing to the earth.

a lifetime of sustainable efforts can be compromised in a single day by the actions of the mega rich.

fuck saving shit...jsut let it happen and find something else to do for fun

global warming is not due to mankind, its just an average cycle of the earth...like the ice ages..

Mars is also experiencing global warming. Its polar ice caps are melting at a significantly higher rate than ours currently are. So we need to get our priorities straight and ask ourselves, "how can we save Mars' environment?"

hahaha yes!!!

The environment doens't need to be saved. Of the CO2 emissions produced each year only 1.2% of it is man-made.

We can't affect the environment that much. Sure, we need to do what we can to not pollute and try to keep the earth clean, but we aren't causing global warming. It is natural and we can't control it.

and the global warming curve started going up considerably before the CO2 curve started going up. The correlation between global warming and CO2 is fairly weak. But it's still a good idea to be as environmentally friendly as possible.

well if everyone said that than nothing would change and if millions of people stepped up and starded helping the environment it would help
but yes the government daes have to start funding research for diferent energy sources. the technologgy is there it just costs a shit load so the government has to pay for some of it instead of funding the fucking war in Iraq

yes that too. exactly.

OH NO!

watch the inconvinent truth you may not like al gore but listen to the fact about global warming in it

the facts are misrepresented and it is very unbiased.

You can pretty much trace the incredibly sharp rise in CO2 levels right along with the Industrial Revolution. Humans can definitely effect the environment that much. For example:

- CFC's burned a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica in the mid 90's. CFC's come from human made products and industries. We banned them in the US (we were and still are the largest producers of them), and guess what, the ozone hole is slowly repairing itself. The hole is letting in large amounts of UV light, which is adversely effecting all life under its shadow. Plankton for instance has been decreasing in these areas under the hole. Knocking out the bottom of a food chain is no good. For further insight, look at the mass extinction event that killed most plankton 2 million years ago - it coincided with a large supernova relatively close to our solar system that apparently blasted off much of the Earths ozone. We're doing the same thing right now, ever so slowly.

- West African desertification. Bad farming techniques have effected many places around the globe, but this is one of the most stark examples of what our species is capable of wreaking on the earth. West Africa used to support many different cultures and societies. That was until livestock were introduced to the region. Pounding hoofs trampled the grass and upset the ecosystems on the plains. Now the Sahel is being eaten by the Sahara at a rate of 10 km a year in some places.

- The Aral Sea. Once an enormous lake between the boarders of Khazakstan and Uzbekistan,  the Aral was used for irrigation by the Soviets to make the region its "breadbasket" to compete with the United States's Midwest. Over the next 40 years, the lake shrank. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, its now only the eighth. Salinity in the lake is so high most of the fish have died. The sandy and polluted lakebed now kicks up incredibly large dust storms, which ravage crops and have given the people in the region some of the highest rates of lung disease in the world. Ecosystems around the lake are dead. Efforts are being focused at saving the northern part of the lake, but it looks like it will be too little too late. The Aral will most likely be gone by the end of the century.

- Easter Island. Man arrived at this small pacific island around 900 AD. A small civilization quickly sprang up on the densely forested island. Humans started cutting the trees to build their towns, make their boats and stoke their fires. However, the island was small and the population the trees had to support was large. By the time Europeans has arrived, Easter Island was devoid of large trees, only supporting a few species of small palms. The natives had by that time exhausted the island of other resources as well; all nesting birds were absent from the isle, and all the dogs they brought with them were eaten. Deforestation led to the collapse of their civilization, and even though the island has had centuries to recover, it remains treeless and windswept. Lately, its been suffering from soil erosion with the introduction of livestock, much as has been occurring in the Sahara and around the globe.

I can bring up another ten examples off the top of my head of how humans have affected the environment. We're the most destructive species this planet has ever seen. Its completely within our ability to cause a global climate shift, and thats precisely what our recent activity on this Earth has produced. I'm still amazed that there are people out there that maintain that we could never cause something that colossal. Its perfectly withing our capabilities as a species, and even follows our repeating history of ecological disasters we have produced.

what I like is when liberal like Al Gore and the likes. get up on stage and bash people for not being more friendly to the environment. has any one ever asked how did he get to this event? in a huge ass jet and fancy limo, not very nice on the environment? I dont have a problem with spending money and driving a big gas guzzling SUV, but when people get up on stage and tell me i am doing the world a huge dis service. and show up in a 40 million $$$ jet i think they are the most hypocritical moron in the world and could care less what they have to say. Im done now

You are so wrong its not even funny. To claim that global warming isn't happening is the equivalent of believing in creationism. Sorry to offend, but no matter how many BS facts you come up with regarding cows farting methane you will always sound like an idiot when you refuse to accept such an obvious truth. Global warming is DEFINETELY happening right now, honestly look at glaciers across the world, and look at pictures of them 50 years ago. You will shit yourself. Honestly humans are gonna get shafted by their abuse on the world. There are so many examples of this its ridiculous.  

you are so full of it, how do you know what those glaciers looked like 2000 years ago, the earth has worm and cold patterns. look into what the hot liberal topic was in the 70s, let me give you a hint, ( it was global cooling) and this was in the era of gas guzzling engines and no care at all for the environment. we will be fine. if you wanna do something about it fine but dont tell me not to drive that big SUV if i can afford the gas, and that we are ruining the future for our children.