The Green Resort Guide has been set up to provide information about the eco-friendliness of ski resorts. We hope to drive up standards in the industry by highlighting the resorts that are doing a lot to help preserve the environment, as well as those that aren't doing much at all. By looking at the development of ski resorts around the world, it is impossible to avoid certain realisations that include the fact that whilst resorts used to report new ski runs each winter, now they more often report new snowmaking coverage. Then there are the trends of rising average temperatures and slowly declining snowfall. Many still believe these are a short term blip, but the fact is that glaciers are melting, and this piece of evidence is not easy to simply dismiss.