About Alison Gannett
HIGHLIGHTS
1987 - BS, Magna Cum Laude, Honors UVM
1987 - NOLS Graduate - Alaska, Honors Thesis
1991 - Grad Degree - Solar Energy International
1991 - First Global Cooling Consulting Company
1995 - First ski movies - Warren Miller and TGR
1997 - First Straw home, designed and built
1998 - Wins World Cup Freeskiing Titles
1999 - TGR Harvest Straightline Alaska Segment
1999 - Powder Magazine FreeSkier of the Year
1999 - X Games in Crested Butte
2000 - NBC Gravity Games Bronze Medal
2004 - Founds Office for Resource Efficiency
2006 - Founds Save our Snow Foundation
2006 - Founds CROP™ Framework for Global Warming Solutions
2006 - Joins The Equilibrium Fund
2006 - Selected to train with Al Gore
2007 - Outside Magazine Green All Star
2007-8 - becomes the solutions trainer for Al Gore’s TCP staff
2007-8 - Converts the 1st Solar-powered SUV PHEV in the world to get 100+MPG.
2008 - Founds the SOS Foundation - www.sosfound.org - to help save our snow and water for future generations through an extreme sports multi media educational platform.
2009- Rides from NY to DC with ClimateRide.org to support climate change and work with leaders in DC
2009- Founds http://www.localFarmsFirst.com an online local farmers market
2009- COP 15 Copenhagen - walks 400k to get there to present on solutions
2009- Congressional training on solutions
2010 - Selected as Ski Hero of the Year by Ski Magazine
2010 - Selected as Ski All Star of the Year by Skiing Magazine
Alison Gannett is a World Champion Big Mountain FreeSkier, founder of The Save Our Snow Foundation, and founder KEEN Rippin Chix Steep Skiing Camps and Rippin Chix Mountain Bike Camps. As an accomplished ski mountaineer and Environmental Scientist, she utilizes her first descents and ski expeditions worldwide - India, Pakistan, Bolivia, Argentina, Bhutan, South Africa, Europe and North America, to photo document glacial recession - glaciers that she first skied in 1995-2002 have now disappeared forever. Ski Magagine named her Ski Hero of the Year, while Outside magazine named her "Green All-Star of the Year", next to Leonardo DiCaprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2011, National Geographic named her a Woman Adventurer of the Year.
Alison has dedicated her life to making the world a better place, and has spent over half her life working on solutions to climate change. Alison enjoys working with businesses, with her "Be Green, Save Green" keynote presentations and workshops, demonstrating and illustrating how companies such as Levi's, Nike, Patagonia, Osprey, NEMO, Elemental Herbs, KEEN, and even Walmart, have improved the bottom line by reducing energy use.
A big believer of walking the talk, she started an experiment in calculating and reducing her carbon footprint in 2002. Surprising even herself, she has been able to reduce her footprint by over 50%, with low-cost and no-cost action items. In her Global Cooling Ski Adventure Show, she demonstrates how her choices within her exhilarating outdoor lifestyle can result in measurable and meaningful energy reduction. She hopes to inspire others showing how daily simple choices in travel, home, consumption, food and water, can not only reduce her carbon footprint, but increased her quality of life. Her latest experiment, growing and raising all her own food on Holy Terror Farm, and helping other farmers and customers by starting a farmer controlled online farmers market.
