Ohhhh..Inspiring Films..Be There!

The 2008 Alpinist Film Festival will take place January 17-20, 2008, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In addition to the Snow, Surf and Stone nights, which showcase, respectively, the world's best skiing, surfing and climbing films, a new People's Choice Ceremony will screen the People's Choice award winners from the preceding evenings, allowing the audience to choose the 2008 Grand Prize award winner. Snow, Surf and Stone nights will take place at Teton Village's Walk Festival Hall from January 17-19; the People's Choice Ceremony will take place downtown at Jackson's Center for the Arts on January 20th. And don't worry about the gas you consumed to road trip there or the flight you took to get to the mtns,becasue the Alpinist announced that The 2008 Alpinist Film will offset its estimated carbon footprint with the purchase of high-quality carbon credits generated by renewable energy projects. The outdoor clothing company Patagonia, the 2008 Festival's presenting sponsor, will underwrite the costs associated with making the event carbon neutral. All energy consumed by the 2008 Festival--from the travel of the speakers and the audiences to snow removal, the delivery of films and the ink consumption for posters and banners--is accounted for in the estimated carbon footprint. In order to eliminate unaccounted carbon, the AFF purchased an additional six tons of offsets, twenty-five percent more than its estimated footprint. Check out more about their green intiatives and the festival by clicking here.