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It’s baseball season! There’s nothing like heading out and watching your favorite team out on the green. This year, things are getting even greener for Major League Baseball.
The Team Greening Program, a collaboration of Major League Baseball and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will provide to each Club an individualized NRDC Team Greening Advisor for Major League Baseball, which is a web-based software tool featuring advice and resources for every aspect of a Club’s operations. This unprecedented program, more than two years in development, will expand on the industry’s best practices, offering specific local advice concerning such topics as
- Adopting an official environmental policy
- Incorporating environmental language into contracts, purchasing policies and requests for proposals that specify preferences for environmentally sound products and services
- Encouraging the use of renewable energy
- Providing information about how to credibly offset the carbon emissions related to team and fan transportation
- Using post-consumer recycled content paper for all paper product
- Implementing paper reduction strategies in offices
- Offsetting the environmental impact of up to half team and employee travel
- Establishing Club eco-committee
Some of the local teams around here are way ahead of the game already. The SF Giants use 600 solar panels to power AT&T Park and feed back to the grid when the stadium’s use is low. Plus, its hi-def, LED scoreboard is sharper than the old one and uses 78% less energy. The Oakland A’s home, McAfee Coliseum, serves up its nachos and drinks in biodegradable cups, utensils, and containers, and sorts everything (food scraps too) for composting. That makes that $7 drink go down so much smoother.
