Downhill Slide Why the Corporate Ski Industry Is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment

Name: Downhill Slide Why the Corporate Ski Industry Is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment
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ISBN: 9781578051021

ISBN-10: 1578051029

ISBN-13: 9781578051021

Edition: 2003

Authors: Hal Clifford, Sierra Club Books Staff

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In this impassioned exposeacute;, lifelong skier Hal Clifford reveals how publicly traded corporations gained control of America's most popular winter sport during the 1990s, and how they are gutting ski towns, the natural environment, and skiing itself in a largely futile search for short-term profits. Chronicling the collision between Wall Street's demand for unceasing revenue growth and the fragile natural and social environments of small mountain communities, Clifford shows how the modern ski industry promotes its product as environmentally friendly--even invoking the words and emblems of such environmental icons as Ansel Adams and John Muir--while at the same time creating urban-style…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



From Rope Tows to Real Estate



Skiing's Self-Defeating Arms Race



Wall Street Comes to the Mountain



What Is Land For? A Theological Schism



Selling the New Resort



Potemkin Villages and Emerald Cities



Smokey the Bear, the Ski Industry's Best Friend



Resort Roadkill: The Environmental Price Tag



Commuters or Communities?



Back to the Future


Notes


Index