So that people can continue skiing on these beautiful snowy mountains forever... Protect Our Winters (POW) Japan is engaged in various activities to "achieve a carbon-free society initiated by the snow community." To promote carbon-free and sustainable ski resorts, they have recently produced and published the "Sustainable Resort Handbook for Green Ski Resorts."
In December 2023, POW launched a project called the Sustainable Resort Alliance (SRA), a federation of resorts promoting sustainability. The alliance aims to make ski resorts across the country zero-carbon and sustainable, and has focused on creating a space where ski resorts and skiers can work together to achieve this
STEEP also provides detailed information on the sustainability initiatives of SRA member ski resorts. During the 2023 snow season, we featuredAble Hakuba Goryu,Katashina Kogen Ski Resort,Smile Resort,Tokyu Land Corporation,Hakuba Happo-one Ski Resort.
The aim and overview of the handbook specializing in decarbonization and sustainability for ski resorts, produced by POW, are as follows.
We will briefly introduce the contents from the press release (PR TIMES / August 5, 2024).
■ Purpose of the handbook
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Through our activities to date, conversations with ski resorts across the country have revealed that they "feel a sense of crisis regarding global warming and want to do something, but don't know where to start. We would like to see concrete examples of initiatives." POW JAPAN has been researching domestic and international case studies for some time, but we haven't found anything that comprehensively summarizes decarbonization and sustainability initiatives at ski resorts.
Therefore,SRA's advisory team, which is composed of specialists in various fields, and ski resorts that are already taking the lead, we have created a handbook specifically for decarbonization and sustainability at ski resorts, drawing on initiatives from other industries.
This handbook consists of an action list to encourage taking the "first step" and introductions to advanced case studies from snow resorts in Japan and overseas. We hope that this handbook will serve as a catalyst, encouraging ski resorts to build upon and develop their initiatives, which will then spread to local governments and related companies near the ski resorts, to the entire snow industry, and to other industries.
~POW Japan
■ Handbook Overview
- Focusing on advanced initiatives in snow resorts and snow towns both domestically and internationally, the publication features interview articles highlighting Europe, North America, and Nozawa Onsen Village.
- It introduces 12 actions specifically focused on zero carbon and sustainability in snow resort management.
- The handbook distributed to member ski resorts was printed by Okawa Printing Co., Ltd., which is committed to environmentally friendly printing, using FSC® certified paper, non-VOC (0% petroleum-based solvent) ink, and 100% renewable energy. -
32 color pages
This handbook is available for free as a PDF on the POW official website, making it accessible to everyone interested in and learning about sustainable practices, including ski resorts, the snow industry, and more. It's
packed with interesting information, so be sure to check it out.
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