Trouble in Paradise: The Rough Road to Sustainability in Aspen: How Failure can be the Next Great Tool in Sustainable Business

Corporate Environmental Strategy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 293-299

  Schendler, Auden ^a  

^a Aspen Skiing Company   (United States)

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EID: 0005672764     PISSN: 10667938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1066-7938(01)00133-6     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Arnold Fickett, Clark Gellings, and Amory Lovins, "Efficient Use of Electricity," Scientific American, September 1990.
2. Personal communication, 8/6/01.
3. Oystein Dahle, State of the World Conference, July 20, 2001, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO.
4. Details on this program can be found in the Interface Sustainability Report or through www.interfaceinc.com.
5. Interface, Inc. CEO Ray Anderson's term for the movement toward sustainable business.
6. The Editors of Time Life, Libraries of Curious and Unusual Facts, Inventive Genius, Time Life Books, Alexandria, 1991.
7. From analysis done by Chris Myers at Rising Sun Enterprises for Aspen Skiing Company on 10/4/00. Rising Sun Enterprises, 0040 Sunset Drive #1, Basalt, CO 81621, (970) 927-8051.
8. Information on LEED can be found at www.usgbc.org.
9. Heat pumps are much more efficient than conventional systems based on their "coefficient of performance" (COP) an engineering term. COP is the ratio of heat delivered by the heat pump (or other system) to the electricity supplied to the compressor. Thus, the higher the number, the more efficient the system. Heat pumps in this application have a COP of almost five, while a conventional system has a COP of less than 1.