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...destination clubs, unlike in a time-share. What you get is the right to stay at any number of properties for some number of weeks each year. The clubs own the houses and condos that they promote, usually worth $1 million or more on the beach, in cities or ski areas...
...fires set in Vail, Colo., by protesters from Earth Liberation Front were an environmental wake-up call for the ski industry, Auden Schendler, 35, is a triple shot of espresso. Hired the next year by Aspen Skiing Co. (ASC), he has become the most visible of a crop of experts charged with cleaning up the industry's act. Between keeping the lodges toasty and draining the creeks for snowmaking, downhill-skiing companies in the late 1990s were major consumers of natural resources. And ASC, which now operates four mountains, two hotels and 12 restaurants in the Aspen-Snowmass area...
Schendler set about changing that. ASC had already invested $10.5 million in efficient snowmaking equipment that saved more than 6 million gallons of water in one year. At Schendler's urging, it became the first ski company to issue a climate-change policy, with a public commitment to cutting greenhouse gases that has led to a 75% reduction in emissions. ASC was the first to use biodiesel fuel in snowcats, issue sustainability reports and develop a green building policy...
...prolific writer and major supporter of the Keep Winter Cool campaign, a partnership between the ski industry and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Schendler feels he has helped change the culture of skiing, at least at ASC. "We've turned this place into a lab for addressing climate change," he says. "Aspen is a lever that can change the world." --By Rita Healy/Denver...
...Asian eyes don?t prevent random strangers from viewing them simply as Young Black Men - which they are by about half - and, therefore, potentially dangerous, which they definitely are not. And surely their non-physical traits, like being highly educated and classically trained musicians, get lost amidst the ski jackets and low-riding pants my youngest brother in particular favors. The same is true of countless black men and boys, whose fashion choices, large headphones and, yes, skin color might seem to some to belie the true nature of their personalities...