(from the NSAA Sustainable Slopes Annual Report 2008)

Working under the banner of Stratton's Fresh Tracks environmental program, several new initiatives have been put into motion at the resort. 

• To reduce emissions, Stratton has established four new anti-idle zones and adopted anti-idling recommendations for all Stratton fleet vehicles in hopes of reducing air pollution. 

• Stratton also continues to purchase enough renewable energy credits to offset electric consumption from resort operations.  In addition, the resort has reduced electrical consumption by replacing 80 snowmaking guns with more efficient equipment, resulting in an annual electricity savings of over 900,000 kilowatt hours.  Other energy saving projects include lighting retrofits at 8 locations totaling an annual savings of 210,000 kilowatt hours, and updating refrigeration efficiencies totaling 43,500 kilowatt hours of savings annually.

• Stratton also continues to educate guests and employees through new lift tower signage, event messaging (including an education table at the 26th Annual US Open), and the use of online resrouces. 

• Finally, in an effort to reduce paper consumption, Stratton has implemented a printed pages reduction goal fo 25 percent by mandating duplex printing and communicating the intitiative through signage, email tag lines, and employee education.