The North Lake Tahoe, Truckee and Nevada County Foothill Region have come to embrace environmental sustainability and conservation practices. Actions to minimize impacts on the local and global environment can be performed in many different ways.   Installation of water and energy efficient fixtures, recycling, and responsible use and disposal of hazardous and toxic household substances are all activities that can be undertaken by local residents and businesses on a daily basis.

Keep the Sierra Green (KSG) is a new program designed to recognize community business leaders focused on sustainable ecological and economic practices in the North Central High Sierras and Foothills.  The KSG program is a self certifying, voluntary check list of various waste reduction, pollution prevention and energy conservation measures.  The check list is modeled after the Bay Area Green Business Program and has been refined and tested for local application.  

Alison Gannett will be speaking on global warming at 3 p.m. Sunday at Truckee High School. It is part of the opening ceremonies for the Cross Country Junior Olympic championships.

Her presentation is part of the Opening Ceremonies Sunday for the 2009 Cross Country Junior Olympic Ski Championships at Auburn Ski Club Training Center March 8-14. The Opening Ceremonies, including Gannett's show, are from 3 to 4:45 p.m.

Gannett is the founder of Save Our Snow Foundation and The Office of Resource Efficiency. Her goal is to raise global warming awareness using action sports as the conduit.

Second only to Earth Day, the Incline High School’s Boosters Crab Feed was the largest, single event diversion for the Zero Waste Project, according to Madonna Dunbar, of WasteNot.

Over 500 people attended the Crab Feed Feb. 7, dining on a four-course meal of salad, pasta, crab, dessert and drinks.