“Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is perhaps more keenly aware of the threat to our environment posed by climate change than other industries, for obvious reasons,” Jackson Hole Mountain Resort president Jerry Blann says. “The many actions to support sustainability evolve from the ideas we embrace as a company on a daily basis.”
The resort has incorporated a number of sustainability measures into its operations over the years. Currently, some trucks and other resort vehicles are retrofitted to run on 100 percent waste vegetable oil collected from resort restaurants, while others run on biodiesel.
To date, the resort has already reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent. And by 2020, in concert with the Jackson Hole Energy Sustainability Project, it plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions per skier visit by 5 percent more, relative to a 2015 baseline. It also plans to divert a large percentage of its municipal solid waste to recycling and composting.
Situated in the Tetons, Jackson Hole MountainbResort is part of the 34,375-square-mile Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which is “one of the largest nearly intact temperate-zone ecosystems on Earth,” according to the National Park Service. Resort users can see into neighboring Grand Teton National Park and can hike or ski into the park’s backcountry directly from the resort.