Tag: Sports - Page 8
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The Green Stampede Hits College Football — Greening the Gridiron
The University of Colorado, home of the Big 12 team the Buffaloes, has launched the "Green Stampede"—an initiative designed to limit the environmental impact of their home stadium and road games. The Stampede is
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International Cyclists Tour Japan To Promote Environmental Awareness
In a previous post, we talked about BEE Japan (Bicycle for Everyone's Earth), an initiative that started here in Japan 1997. Now in its 11th year BEE Japan is going strong, using Flickr to show their progress. Every year they are attracting cyclists
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Japan's Seibu Railroad Uses Baseball Star To Promote Eco-Friendly Travel
Seibu Railway, a Japanese railway operator of passenger trains throughout Tokyo and the neighboring Saitama Prefecture, has recently launched a campaign to encourage eco friendly rail travel. Seibu Railway hopes to increase awareness and encourages
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New Study: Kids Need the Adventure of "Risky" Play
A new British study finds the obvious to any modern parent- we overprotect our kids. Half of all kids have stopped climbing trees, and 17 percent have been told that they can't play tag or chase. Even hide-and-seek has
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Wizard's Gil Arena's Pool Is A Monument To Excess
We aren’t even going to pretend that there is anything green about this picture – isn’t it amazing what human ingenuity can come up with these days! Gilbert Arenas, point guard for the Washington Wizards, just built a
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Yankee Stadium Bans Sunscreen: Security Threat or Squeezing For Nickels?
It is really hard to promote the idea that people should get outdoors, be part of their community, go out to the ball game or whatever when we read things like this. At Yankee Stadium, the security guards are confiscating sunscreen. "Five hours in the
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Kids to Couch Potatoes: Earlier and Faster than Ever
We know a lot of kids don't get a lot of exercise, but even kids who were active at 9 years old, and getting three hours of activity per day, lose it by the time they are 15 and barely manage to get half an hour. Study author Dr. Philip
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Where Wiffle Ball's a Crime There May Be No Child Left Outside
With kids across America suffering from a severe case of nature deficit disorder as technology creeps in and takes over their room for creative play it may come as a surprise that a group of kids putting together their very own field of dreams on which
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Human-Powered Tennis Ball Launcher: Green Genius or Simply Added Work?
OK, fine. So I fully admit that this one is a bit lightweight in comparison to issues which I would normally write about. It's certainly not as complex as T. Boone's shenanigans.
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Soccer Nuts Wasting Fuel with Flags
It is the Euro 2008 soccer championships and this city is going nuts. Every second car on the street is festooned with little flags; perhaps they shouldn't be. Engineers are quoted in the Guardian as saying that that the flags, which are usually
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Trends We Love: All-You-Can-Eat Ballparks
When one lives in a milieu where everyone reads Michael Pollan and shops local and healthy, it is shocking to learn that the local ballpark is introducing an all-you-can-eat section. Mmmm, all the hotdogs, peanuts, popcorn, nachos and soft drinks.
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Point/Counterpoint: Leigh Steinberg's "Green" Super Bowl Party
For the past 22 years, sports agent Leigh Steinberg has been hosting a swanky Super Bowl party, commemorating football's big day with a VIP affair. This year, for the first time, the party incorporated a handful of green initiatives -- carbon
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Survey: Did You Watch The Game?
Others with lots of money crank out the CO2 by flying across the country to see a
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Most Huggable: Free Range Falacy?, Super Bowl Goes Green, Biodegradable Bubbles + More
A run of programms on British television has created a sudden upsurge of interest in free range chicken, but the supermarkets are still denying that there is a market for the more expensive meat.
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ISPO SportsDesign Focuses on EcoDesign
"Ecofriendly doesn't have to mean ugly: Good design is one of the keys to bringing together ecology and the economy. This leads to products, systems, infrastructure and services that serve their purpose while requiring a minimum of resources,
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TuftTrike: Green for The Green
Yep, so you know that you can have water soluble golf balls, reused golf balls, bamboo golf clothes and even certified organic gold courses. But did you that you can now lug your clubs and irons from tee to tee aboard a human-powered vehicle. Oh yeh,
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The End of the World As We Know It Dept.: Leaf Blower Hockey
How did it come to this? Take the most evil fuel burning device this side of a Hummer or a gas-powered daquiri maker and outfit two teams with them, fire up the leaf blowers and blow the ball towards the goal. The "first ever leaf blower hockey game in
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Attack of the Green Monster
When Sustainable Industries talks about the "green monster," they are not talking about the famous left-field wall in Boston, however they still are talking sports (although Fenway scores tons of points with us due to its longevity). Sports stadiums
