{"id":53,"date":"2010-10-19T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-10-18T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T03:31:11","slug":"does-the-nfl-care-about-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/2010\/10\/19\/does-the-nfl-care-about-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL Cares!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football is one of my favorite sports to play and watch. I’ve been competing in a\u00a0 Yahoo!\u00a0fantasy football league with my friends from high school for the past five years or so. To my detriment, I probably spend more time watching the NFL\u00a0 on Sundays than I\u00a0do studying. As I was looking for a\u00a0new tight end\u00a0to replace\u00a0my injured Jermichael Finley, I asked myself.. is the NFL making any efforts to go green? In my search for an answer, I came across an\u00a0interesting article called: “Six Ways the NFL is Greening Super Bowl XLIV. Really.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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My star fantasy football tight end, Jermichael Finley, being carted off the field. :'(<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many companies take advantage of the Super Bowl’s enormous viewing audience to promote their latest “green” message. I’m going to\u00a0describe several ways the NFL is trying to make the event itself more sustainable.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. This is the fourth year in a row that the NFL will use RECs (Reusable Energy Certificates) to match the electricity consumption\u00a0of the Super Bowl and its related events. I would like to see them expand this procedure to their playoff games, and eventually regular season games as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. It is going to fund the planting of “hundreds” of trees at various locations throughout South Florida. As a tree planter who\u00a0worked for a company that planted more than 100,000 trees a day, I realize that hundreds of trees is a relatively\u00a0insignificant amount. I think it would be\u00a0extremely hip\u00a0if they planted one tree for every fan\u00a0in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Solid waste will be reduced through recycling at Dolphin Stadium (home to this year’s game).<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Extra prepared food from Super Bowl events will be collected and donated to community agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. All leftover materials from Super Bowl and Pro Bowl events are inventoried and donated to local non-profit agencies in South Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0The NFL is designing a new project called “Super Kids” that provides an opportunity for local school children to donate their used books and sports equipment to other needy children in the South Florida community.<\/span><\/p>\n

All in all, I commend the NFL for\u00a0its efforts. Unlike some of the\u00a0companies who’s green\u00a0motives I’ve criticized in earlier blog posts,\u00a0the NFL does not appear to be trumpeting or seeking\u00a0“hero” status for their efforts\u00a0.\u00a0Thus making <\/strong>me less inclined to doubt their sincerity.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original article goes into further detail regarding these six initiatives and many more, including the\u00a0idea of a “zero waste football stadium”. To read this article, click on the link below:<\/span><\/p>\n

Six Ways the NFL is Greening Super Bowl XLIV<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Football is one of my favorite sports to play and watch. I’ve been competing in a\u00a0 Yahoo!\u00a0fantasy football league with my friends from high school for the past five years or so. To my detriment, I probably spend more time watching the NFL\u00a0 on Sundays than I\u00a0do studying. As I was looking for a\u00a0new tight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamiesaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}