Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

We partnered with Change Climate in 2021 to measure and offset our carbon emissions and identified strategies to reduce our emissions every year.

Measuring Our Carbon Footprint - Ski Butlers measured its 2021 carbon footprint at 691 tonnes. This number includes all emissions from product materials, delivering our services, employee commuting, business travel, and utilities.

Making a Plan to Reduce Emissions - We created action plans to lower our emissions with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.

Current Actions

1. Gas Powered Vehicles: To date we have purchased three Ford Lightnings for our Park City, Vail and Telluride markets. Our feasibility assessment has proved successful with the Lightnings being a reliable delivery vehicle in our mountain destinations. Moving forward, 80% of all new vehicle purchases will be electric or hybrid.
2. Rental Vehicles: During high-demand periods we need to supplement our fleet with rental vehicles. We are working with our vendors to provide us with higher mileage gas vehicles, hybrid options, and by 2028 switching to all electric rentals.
3. Renewable Energy: Through both community solar programs and lobbying our HOAs to install solar panels our goal is to be 100% off fossil fuel energy for our real estate by 2030. 
4. Employee Housing: We offer employee housing in a number of our markets to alleviate the burden for our employees. When assessing housing, we look for long-term rentals that are within walking distance to local bus routes. Additionally, our employees can carpool to work reducing the number of gas vehicles driving to and from work each day.

Team Member Education

We are constantly educating, empowering and incentivizing our team members to help us achieve our sustainability goals. By employing hundreds of individuals from around the country, we are able to impact not only the ski industry, but also the people within it.

1. Employee Commuting: Increased carpooling by scheduling employees who live with or near one another during the same shifts each week.
2. Free POW Membership: Giving each employee a free Protect our Winter membership during their first week of orientation.
3. Local Government: Encouraging employees to attend city council meetings and providing them with resources, talking points, and council schedules.

Advocacy & Philanthropy

We believe that mountain towns have the ability to be a part of the climate change solution. As such, we’ve worked to measure our emissions and set actionable goals to be Net Zero across our business by 2030 and to help create and implement Net Zero plans for the mountain towns we operate in. Our journey started a decade ago when Ski Butlers Founder, Bryn Carey connected with Jeremy Jones from Protect Our Winters.

1. MT2030: Ski Butlers’ Founder, Bryn Carey helped create MT2030, a nonprofit organization and movement of mountain communities committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Bryn remains on the board of directors.
2. Protect our Winters: Ski Butlers is a brand alliance partner of POW, encouraging our guests to become members during their reservation process and through philanthropic donations.