Community

Zero Waste Wasatch Back is a community-driven group of Wasatch Back residents committed to taking personal and collective action to reduce waste and preserve natural resources in our homes, neighborhoods, businesses, and shared spaces—supporting a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable future for all. It goes beyond asking “what can I do with …?…besides throw it away?” and moves towards “how can we stop the over-extraction that necessitates these massive waste streams?”

The next meeting will be Monday, October 19th at 6 pm at Este Pizza – 1781 Sidewinder Drive, Park City.

Questions? Email chelsea@recycleutah.org.

Helping Employees, Customers and Visitors Get Around Differently

With winter comes increased traffic, greater demand for parking, and more challenging commutes throughout Park City and Summit County—and local businesses feel these impacts too. Helping employees find convenient, affordable, and reliable ways to get to work can reduce commuting costs and stress, improve workforce reliability, support employee recruitment and retention, and reduce employee parking demands.

Join the Park City | Summit County Green Business Program at its next Lunch & Learn to explore the transportation resources and programs available locally and how they can benefit your business, employees, and customers. We’ll share practical strategies for taking advantage of these resources, encouraging employees to explore alternative commuting options, and making it easier for customers and visitors to access your business.

Local transportation experts will highlight resources including public transit, Summit Bike Share, carpooling, vanpooling and Ride On Park City, and share how businesses and their employees can take advantage of them. We’ll also introduce a new partnership between Ride On Park City and the Green Business Program designed to help Green Businesses get their employees involved—and earn additional recognition and certification points along the way.

We’ll also hear from Park City Mountain about what’s worked and what they’ve learned from efforts to encourage carpooling and bus ridership among employees and guests.

And because simply knowing these options exist isn’t always enough, the Park City Chamber & Visitors Bureau will share ideas for communicating and promoting transportation options in ways that are useful and relevant to employees, customers and visitors.

Attendees will leave with a better understanding of the transportation options available locally, how other businesses are putting them into practice, and how they can help more employees, customers and visitors use them this winter.

Lunch is provided.

Register here.

Featured Speakers include:

• Paul Boyle, Director of Content at the Park City Chamber, will discuss how businesses can communicate alternative transportation options in ways that resonate with their audiences. While sustainability helps shape how the Chamber approaches destination marketing and communications, it isn’t necessarily what brings someone to the Chamber’s website or other channels in the first place. Paul will share how the Chamber weaves sustainability and transportation into the broader Park City story—and offer ideas for making these messages engaging, relevant and useful to visitors, customers and employees.
  

• Sydney Maves, Senior Transportation Planner at Park City, will introduce Ride On Park City and share how the program encourages employees, residents and visitors to walk, bike, take transit, carpool, vanpool and use other transportation options while earning rewards for the trips they log. She’ll also explain how businesses can create employer networks and encourage their employees to participate. Sydney and the Green Business Program will also introduce a new Ride On partnership for Green Businesses that will build on the existing Winter Rewards Program. Participating businesses will be able to engage their employees through Ride On while earning additional Green Business certification points and recognition based on their participation.

• Erin Fulmore, Sustainability Coordinator at Park City Mountain Resort, will provide the business perspective, sharing Park City Mountain’s experience encouraging employees and guests to carpool and use public transportation. She will discuss the resort’s parking program, the results they’ve seen with carpooling and bus ridership, and lessons learned that may be useful to other businesses looking to influence transportation behavior.

Eva DeLaurentis, Senta Beyer and Christie Hewitt, Transportation Planning , Summit County

• Eva will discuss Summit County’s vanpool program, including how vanpools work, who they are designed to serve and how businesses can help connect employees with this commuting option. She can also address where vanpooling may be particularly useful for employees commuting longer distances into the Wasatch Back.

• Senta and Christie will provide an overview of Summit Bike Share and how the program can serve as a practical transportation option for employees, residents and visitors. They will highlight what’s new with the program, including recent technology and equipment changes, as well as some of the events and partnerships Summit Bike Share has been involved with over the past year. They will also help businesses think about how they could put the bike share to use—whether by encouraging employees to use it for commuting or getting around during the workday, helping customers and visitors reach their business, or incorporating Summit Bike Share into events they may be organizing.

Join Recycle Utah and the Green Business Program on November 10 at the Egyptian Theatre for Green Drinks! This special event will spotlight the Green Business Program and three certified local businesses taking meaningful action to reduce waste, embrace renewable energy, and make sustainability part of how they do business.

Come connect with your community, hear directly from local businesses about what they’re doing and why, and learn more about becoming a certified Green Business.

Light appetizers provided. Select drinks available for purchase. Family-friendly and open to all.

Register here

Join the Green Business Program on May 13 from 12 to 1 at the Park City Library (Room 201) to explore how your business can create a thriving, family-friendly workplace for working parents. We’ll discuss the Best Place for Working Parents designation, tax credits available to small businesses to help offset childcare costs, practical policies and strategies to support working mothers, and more!

We’ll hear from:

• Becca Gerber, Senior Director of Community & Government Affairs at the Park City Chamber, on key takeaways from the Best Place for Working Parents initiative and new tax credits covering up to 80% of childcare costs for small businesses
• Sara Sargent, Alpine Distilling, sharing her experience achieving the Best Place for Working Parents designation and how they’ve created an inclusive and supportive workplace culture
• Paige Mitchell, Health Educator with the Summit County Health Department’s Health Promotion Division, discussing lactation resources available to employers and employees, along with the County’s Infants in the Workplace program, to help businesses identify ways to expand support for working mothers

REGISTER HERE

Remember to bring your water bottle, business cards, and any green business news you’d like to share!

For public transit options, download the Transit app.

We hope to see you there!