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| February 2013 |
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Mon, Feb 11, 2013
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2012-2013 Annual Ski Area Environmental Scorecard Released (PDF File)
Sierra Nevada Alliance and Ski Area Citizens' Coalition
This Presidents’ Day weekend (the busiest ski resort weekend of the year), skiers and snowboarders are urged to choose their resort with the newly released Ski Area Environmental Scorecard, compiled by the Sierra Nevada Alliance on behalf of the Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition. Sadly, the 11th annual scorecard finds that 32% of ski resorts throughout the western United States are expanding into new terrain, leading to lower grades for environmental performance, according to the newly released Scorecard. Nearly one-third of all western ski resorts surveyed (twenty-seven out of eighty-four) expanded their buildings, ski runs, or associated facilities, and most of those expansions intruded into public lands with long-term impacts on wildlife habitat and the region’s water resources. This is a 300% increase in the number of resorts expanding compared to last year when only six resorts expanded their footprints. In California and Nevada, six of twenty resorts proposed exapnsion compared to only one last year. While the Ski Area Scorecard grades resorts on a variety of criteria, significant intrusion into new territory generally leads to a lower score, while expansion onto existing disturbed areas does not.
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| October 2012 |
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Thu, Oct 18, 2012
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Tulare County Supervisors Approve Horrible!! General Plan (And then they get sued) (PDF File)
Craig Breon
On August 28th, after more than six years of preparation and often-rancorous debate, the County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to approve what might be the worst General Plan Update in the State. Then, on September 28th, the Sierra Club Kern-Kaweah Chapter (an Alliance Member Group) and the City of Porterville sued the County, claiming violations of both State planning laws and the California Environmental Quality Act.
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| August 2012 |
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Thu, Aug 02, 2012
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Now Hiring: Financial and Administrative Director (PDF File)
The Financial and Administrative Director is responsible for working with the Executive Director to lead the organization’s financial systems and administration. The Director will manage a half time Administrative Assistant and be responsible for bookkeeping; tracking and reporting on the organization’s budgets; administering payroll and personnel benefits; managing a computer consultant to maintain computer systems; invoicing and ensuring administrative compliance with government grants and contracts; assisting with database management; and assisting the Executive Director.
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| March 2012 |
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Tue, Mar 13, 2012
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| January 2012 |
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Fri, Jan 06, 2012
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Expedition on Carson Pass Part of Global Events Highlighting Climate Change Impacts on Snow & Ice (PDF File)
Sierra Nevada Alliance
On Thursday, January 5th, the Sierra Nevada Alliance led an expedition to a snow monitoring site on Carson Pass, highlighting the affects of climate change on California’s water supply and snow melt as part of a global effort organized by The Climate Reality Project. The Sierra Nevada mountain range is one of eight places around the world that The Climate Reality Project selected to highlight due to the region’s importance to California’s economy, the eighth largest in the world. Climate change will inflict significant environmental and economic losses on the state as the natural reservoir that is the Sierra decreases and becomes more unpredictable.
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| November 2010 |
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Tue, Nov 30, 2010
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2010/2011 Ski Area Scorecard: Green Practices Thrive at Ski Areas During Recession (PDF File)
Sierra Nevada Alliance
Ski resorts in California and across the west improved environmental ratings for the fourth year in a row during the recession according to the 2010/2011 Ski Area Environmental Report Card, released each year by the Ski Area Citizens Coalition. The 82 ski resorts scattered throughout the West saw an average improvement of 2% in their overall scores, while California ski resorts saw an improvement of 1.8% over 2009 and 6.6% from 2008. Rating improvement trends resulted from resorts investing in water and energy efficiency projects and for not proposing or implementing terrain expansions into sensitive lands.
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| December 2009 |
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Tue, Dec 01, 2009
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2009-2010 Ski Area Citizens' Environmental Report Card (PDF File)
Sierra Nevada Alliance
The Sierra Nevada Alliance is a member of the Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition. The Ski Area Citizens' Coalition works to ensure that ski area management decisions, either by the Forest Service, the ski companies, or local goverments, are responsive to the needs of real environmental protection, local communities, and the skiing public. The Ski Area Environmental Scorecard is the only non-industry, independent mechanism that gives skiers and boarders a way to assess the environmental performance of their favorite resorts. By choosing environmentally friendly ski areas, you can encourage all resorts to improve their policies.
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| May 2009 |
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Thu, May 21, 2009
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| January 2009 |
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Mon, Jan 12, 2009
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| October 2008 |
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Wed, Oct 15, 2008
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| August 2008 |
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Tue, Aug 05, 2008
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008
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Mon, Dec 03, 2007
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| September 2007 |
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Tue, Sep 18, 2007
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Mon, Feb 26, 2007
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| December 2006 |
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Mon, Dec 18, 2006
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| January 2006 |
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Fri, Jan 27, 2006
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| November 2005 |
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Tue, Nov 29, 2005
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| October 2004 |
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| October 2003 |
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| March 2003 |
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Thu, Mar 06, 2003
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| December 2002 |
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Sun, Dec 22, 2002
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| November 2002 |
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Mon, Nov 25, 2002
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| July 2002 |
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Tue, Jul 30, 2002
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| January 2002 |
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Wed, Jan 23, 2002
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