City of Aspen - Aspen Z-Green

Aspen ZGreen

Aspen's ZGreen effort is a multi-pronged educational and certification program designed to reduce the environmental footprint of Aspen's community and business members. This unique program provides individuals, businesses, and events with effective ways to reduce their footprint, while at the same time providing a certification which works to distinguish real environmental efforts from general green washing.

Whether you live in Aspen, or are just visiting, you can do your part to help reduce Aspen's contribution to global warming.

What can you do AND what difference do your actions make?
The Citizen program provides an interactive checklist that calculates the impact of dozens of environmentally motivated actions.

The Business Program certifies environmentally conscious businesses.
Check it out to see if your business can qualify, or to see which businesses are already certified.

Certify your event as ZGreen and reduce its environmental impact.
Check out the Event page to learn more about what it takes to be an environmentally conscious event.

Offset your carbon footprint with Canary Tags, the City of Aspen's local carbon offset program!

Additional Resources

What Aspen is Already Doing (link: web site)

What you can do everyday (link: web site)

Aspen Environmental Health Department (link: web site)

Global Warming (link: web site)

Facts and Figures (link: web site)

Aspen's Future (link: PDF document)