The Green Gondola Campaign
by Ben Williams
The gondola is one of Telluride’s best known features. Sooner or later everyone rides it. But did you know the gondola uses a lot of energy – more than 2.3 million kilowatt-hours every year?
With most of our electricity coming from coal, that’s a lot of emissions: Approximately enough CO2 to fill 2,000 Washington Monuments each year, or the same amount of gas released by driving an average-sized sedan around the world 356 times!
Although the Town of Mountain Village purchases wind credits to offset some of this gas, The New Community Coalition is working on an additional strategy – one which will produce power right here, in Mountain Village.