Greening Gardiner News

Located at the first entrance to the World's first National Park, Gardiner, Montana is the perfect place to go as green as possible.

Government regulations will not solve all of our problems. In order to meet the challenges facing our planet, each person will need to develop more conservative habits and work to make his or her community more sustainable.

The Objectives of the "Greening Gardiner" campaign are:

* To improve residential energy efficiency through improvements in household insulation, lighting, and appliances. This will save everyone money. It also will reduce our reliance on technologies such as coal and petroleum, which generate pollution and are becoming more expensive.

*To increase Gardiner's reliance on non-polluting sources of energy such as solar and wind.

* To minimize solid waste in the community through an aggressive effort to reduce, reuse and recycle.

In addition to saving money and doing our bit to help the environment, the residents of Gardiner can set an example for the hundreds of thousands that travel through town every year to visit Yellowstone National Park. We can show the world that "going green" is not only do-able but makes good business sense!