Ontario Pollution Prevention Peer Assistance Project
• Environmental Performance Section of the OSRA Best Management Practices Manual  | |
| Information: provides direction to ski areas towards easy to implement initiatives that will improve environmental performance. | |
| • Ontario Snow Resort Association Environmental Best Practices Taskforce Backgrounder | |
| Information: Provides background information on the taskforce and its objectives. | |
| • 2007: Presentation on Keep Winter Cool Campaign | |
| Information: Presentation of the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Conference - May 2007 | |
| • 2007: Presentation Panel on Waste Reduction and Recycling | |
| Information: Presentation of the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Conference - May 2007 | |
| • Activities of the OSRA Environmental Best Practices Taskfoce - 2006 | |
| Information: Presentation of the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Conference - May 2006 | |
| • Activities of the OSRA Environmental Best Practices Taskforce - 2005 | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Conference - May 2005 | |
| • Environmental Best Practices at Ski Areas | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Fall Education Seminar Series - September 2004 | |
| • Green Purchasing Workshop | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Fall Education Seminar Series - September 2005 | |
| • Improve Your Environmental Performance and Your Bottom Line | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Conference - May 2003 | |
| • Improving Environmental Performance in Ski Area Operations and Management | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Conference - June 2004 | |
| • Introduction to Energy Auditing | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Fall Education Seminar Series - September 2004 | |
| • Spot the Energy Savings Opportunities at Ontario's Snow Resorts | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Conference - June 2004 | |
| • Training and Motivating Employees to Adopt Environmentally Responsible Behaviors | |
| Information: Presentation at the Ontario Snow Resorts Association Fall Education Week - September 2006 | |
| • Clean Snowmobile Facts - Yellowstone National Park | |
| Information: Contains a useful checklist for how to maintain a more environmentally friendly snow machine. | |
| • Clean Snowmobiles Topic Hub | |
| Information: Describes practices and products that make snowmobiles run cleaner. | |
| • Energy Star Purchasing Guide | |
| Information: The guide is designed to help your organization purchase energy-efficient products, while working within your own framework and rules. | |
| • Energy Star Simple Savings Calculator | |
| Information: An interactive software tool to compare the costs of purchasing energy-efficient products with those of conventional equipment. Using local utility rates, projected savings can be calculated from reduced energy consumption and maintenance costs. | |
| • Green Purchasing Opportunities for Ontario Ski Resorts | |
| Information: Contains a useful checklist on green purchasing opportunities categorized by ski resort departments. | |
| • Greening Your Ski Area - A Pollution Prevention Handbook | |
| Information: This handbook demonstrates that practical, proven techniques and technologies exist for reducing the environmental impacts of ski area operations.
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| • Simple Payback Calculator (lighting) | |
| Information: Use this tool to calculate your annual savings in performing a lighting retrofit. | |
| • The National Ski Areas Association's Green Room | |
| Information: contains a database of environmental programs and practices on water, energy and waste.
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Programs
| • Energy Innovators Initiative | |
| Information: offers businesses access to tools, services and financial incentives to pursue energy management planning and retrofits. | |
| • Keep Winter Cool: Help Stop Climate Change | |
| Role: to highlight the impact of global warming on winter recreation and the opportunities both resort operators and their guests have to start solving the problem.
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| • National Ski Areas Association's Sustainable Slopes and Environmental Charter | |
| Role: To provide guidance to resorts in areas such as water and energy conservation, water quality protection, waste reduction, habitat protection, forest and vegetative management, and air and visual quality protection.
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| • Whistler-Blackcomb's Environmental Program | |
| Information: Since 1993, the resort has been developing an extensive Environmental Management System to effectively manage operations that impact the environment.
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