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- EIN 84-1428863
- (970) 300-7153
- Po Box 1248 Aspen CO 81612-1248 USA
- theenvironmentfoundation.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Philanthropy, Private Independent Foundations
Mission: The aspen skiing company environment foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the enhancement and protection of the environmental quality of the roaring fork valley region. We support projects that promote environmental education and research; seek to reduce the impacts of climate change; foster responsible stewardship of our natural resources; protect our mountain ecosystems; and preserve and create opportunities for outdoor recreation.
Programs: Environmental education:to support general operations of aces; to facilitate the use of local food and identifying sustainable modes of operation for school based garden programs;to help maintain garden management services, and establish a community support system for the students to combine the arts of gardening, cooking and business, and through the planning and creation of a community forest garden on half of the fenced garden;to increase the amount of recycling opportunities on the campus, reduce the amount of single use water bottles, and decrease the amount of energy used on school grounds; to support the 2014 youth program, engaging hundreds of youth in outdoor stewardship and accomplishing critical trail maintenance work throughout the greater roaring fork valley
land conservation, wildlife, and habitat protection:to support efforts to protect in-stream flows in the upper colorado river from kremmling to glenwood springs; to engage,inform, and motivate members of local communities to pursue an environmentally responsible update to the federal land use plan for the area;to support the maroon bells trail reconstruction project;to support the elk mountains fourteeners trail maintenance and data collection project;to support the maroon bells-snowmass wilderness campsite rehabilitation project;
support climate change & responsible oil and gas development:provide support to reduce the impacts of climate change and foster responsible stewardship of natural resources.