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 Stories About: climate AND Colorado AND outdoor recreation
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Behind the Vail
How the legendary ski town is going green |
Tim Sprinkle |
19 Oct 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Vail, Colo., is a town that's defined by winter, when tourists from around the world descend on the area's snow-covered slopes to ski, ride, and soak up the laid-back yet glitzy mountain lifestyle. But as the threat of global warming has begun to creep closer to the Colorado high country, Vail has been forced to develop another reputation, one based less on celebrity sightings and more on sustainable policy cho ... |
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| Topics: climate, Colorado, outdoor recreation (all these topics) |
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Ski Bummer
As snowy peaks get warmer, ski industry tries to stave off extinction |
Daniel A. Shaw |
07 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| With the Olympics starting this week, all eyes are on the slopes of Turin. But skiing and snowboarding could disappear from our collective culture in about 50 years, if global-warming forecasts ring true. In a lot of popular ski areas, there simply won't be any snow. It's all downhill from here. Photo: stock.xchng. It's already happening in parts of Europe: They're wrapping glaciers in ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, Colorado, Massachusetts, outdoor recreation, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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