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Aspen Skiing Co. Aims to Turn Skiers into Climate Change Activists
Powder - The Skier's Magazine ^ | September 17, 2018 | By Jillian Queri

Posted on 09/18/2018 12:51:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Aspen Skiing Company recently unrolled a new activism campaign, called Give A Flake, which invites skiers and non-skiers alike to speak out against climate change inaction, with the launch of a variety of online tools that help activists easily contact their elected officials.

However you lean, with a click of a button on the Give A Flake website, you can find out how the elected officials in your area stand on climate change. Then, via Twitter, users can tweet at their local leaders with images and statements that Aspen Skiing Co. has already curated.

The campaign also provides a simple online form that activists can quickly fill out to get through to the phones of both supporters and deniers of climate change.

You can also print off and mail a letter to your elected official, or even make a donation to Protect Our Winters.

Aspen Skiing Co. also has plans to unveil a similar campaign and strategy that will target social equality and LGBTQI rights in America.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: fakescience; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 09/18/2018 12:51:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Which has what to do with skiing? Are the executives homosexuals?


2 posted on 09/18/2018 12:53:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They will lose business and probably will not notice. People like this are in their own reality.


3 posted on 09/18/2018 12:54:28 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People from Aspen Colorado are known in the state as
Aspen-Holes for a reason.


4 posted on 09/18/2018 12:58:56 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Probably.


5 posted on 09/18/2018 12:59:11 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: indthkr

Heh, there are also Boulder-Butts.
And Denver Dorks.


6 posted on 09/18/2018 1:03:51 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: indthkr

Just add an “s” to the first one like South Park did.


7 posted on 09/18/2018 1:10:26 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A week day lift ticket will cost you approx. $169.00. But wait, they also offer a half day ticket for a discounted price of approx. $114.00........

That's all you need to know about Aspen and the clientele that flock there during the winter months..........

Ever wonder why you never see a black, inner city kid on the U.S. Olympic ski team? That's why.........

8 posted on 09/18/2018 1:25:27 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its takes a s**t ton of fossil-based energy to deliver skiers to Aspen’s lift lines.


9 posted on 09/18/2018 1:26:38 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: Anti-Bubba182
They will lose business and probably will not notice.

No they won't, Aspen is the ski mecca for the uber rich elitist snobbers........

10 posted on 09/18/2018 1:28:24 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’ll worry about minorities on our ski team right after Russia, China and the Koreas add some to their teams.


11 posted on 09/18/2018 1:34:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yawn..........


12 posted on 09/18/2018 1:36:42 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will merely drive customers away.


13 posted on 09/18/2018 1:37:31 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Why do we hold ourselves to an impossibly high standard?


14 posted on 09/18/2018 1:42:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

One more reason that I never tried skiing.

Looks interesting, I have to admit.

As poorly coordinated as I am, no business on them.


15 posted on 09/18/2018 1:58:49 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ll bet the Aspen Skiing Company doesn’t make any attempt to dissuade people from unleashing the atmosphere-warming gasses generated when flying planes into Aspen.


16 posted on 09/18/2018 2:04:09 PM PDT by dead
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... with images and statements that Aspen Skiing Co. has already curated.

Sounds kind of astroturfy to me.

17 posted on 09/18/2018 2:10:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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Just returned from a wedding there. There was more “non-whites” among our wedding party than all of Aspen put together. In fact, I think our wedding party had 100% of the “non-white” population in Aspen at the time.

“Liberal/Progressive” policies are sold to Liberal/Progressive sheeple on the basis that they will make the folks who make or vote for such policies feel better, not because at the end of the day they ever achieve the claims made for them. Aspen is a perfect reflection of that fact.


18 posted on 09/18/2018 2:24:54 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: indthkr

The one that gets me is that Pitken County, where Aspen is located, refuses to use anything on the roads after a storm to melt snow. Days after a snowfall you are greeted at the county line with rough packed ice and accidents everywhere.
During ski season it appears 1/3 of all the traffic going to Aspen is hot tub maintenance trucks. Want to cut emissions? Ban hot tubs.


19 posted on 09/18/2018 2:25:34 PM PDT by CA_soon_gone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why do we hold ourselves to an impossibly high standard?

Huh?

20 posted on 09/18/2018 2:43:21 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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