The owner of AquaCity, Jan Telensky, claims that by using green technology instead of fossil fuels, his resort saved 2.5 million euros on conventional energy costs in 2006.
Book a week at any hotel in Madonna di Campiglio – a great resort for beginners and early intermediates in the Brenta Dolomites – through Enchanted Holidays (020-8538 3927, enchantedholidays.co.uk) between 19 and 26 March and it will throw in a six-day SuperSkirama lift pass (giving access to eight resorts) saving you £171.
HOW might allowing the European Central Bank, to be a "lender of last resort" save the euro?
So far, consumers have resorted to saving less, and some are tapping into their savings to maintain spending.
The resort reputedly saves up to 30,000kg of carbon emissions per day, compared with a similar-sized Alpine resort, thanks to its ability to generate 80% of its electricity geothermally.
Would Barbie be "diversifying" if it weren't a last resort to save a dying brand?
Nothing could be further from the truth, he says: "such actions as a last resort to save lives, when there's no other alternative".
Drone strikes were not used to punish terrorists but as a last resort to save lives, he insisted, amid brief protests that at one point shut down his hearing.
Brennan said drones are only used as "a last resort to save lives" but agreed that "we need to optimise transparency while at the same time optimising secrecy" over the killings.
He said moving the Kiribati population would be a "last resort" to save the more than 100,000 islanders.
They leave as a last resort, to save the lives of their children, to feel safe.
