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The greening of sports
« Thread Started on Sept 13, 2011, 4:55pm »		[Quote]
These stories are just a hint of many initiatives being taken around the world that show heightened environmental awareness in the sports industry.

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Last year, 40,000 solar panels were installed at Pocono Raceway

From a NYTimes news story today:
Is green Nascar an oxymoron? After all, the sport is all about watching gas guzzlers drive at high speeds in circles for hours. Until 2007, race cars used leaded fuel. Tens of thousands of fans still drive to races in recreational vehicles and other gas hogs.
But more than any other American sport, Nascar is also a for-profit business, and like many companies these days, it is focused on cutting costs by recycling, conserving and generating its own energy. While the core of the sport remains unchanged, Nascar, its teams, track operators and sponsors are employing an ambitious set of green initiatives that includes collecting used fuel, planting trees to offset carbon emissions, and deploying sheep to keep the infield grass short.
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From a Scientific American article of April 2009:
The Cleveland Indians were the first American League team to install an alt-energy power source in 2007, making it a member of the growing number of ball clubs whose stadiums are going green.

Many Major League Baseball (MLB) teams have taken similar action to "green up" their sport. In a partnership announced last year, the commissioner's office joined with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy group based in New York City, to spearhead the Team Greening Program. The initiative helps teams figure out ways to do their part in protecting the environment and staving off climate change.

"This effort is really changing baseball for the better," says Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist and coordinator of the sports greening project at the NRDC. "Baseball isn't green yet, but it's in the process of greening."
Photo: Washington, D.C.'s Nationals Park, the first stadium certified as a green building in Major League Baseball.Image: Washington Nationals


Several stadiums are mentioned in this article. Here are two of them:


Couldn't find an overview on youtube for Kaohsiung's stadium, but this company's promo is illuminating:
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« Reply #1 on Sept 19, 2011, 5:31am »		[Quote]
The stadiums to be built for the 2022 football world cup in Qatar are supposed to be environmentally responsible. (But is holding the World Cup in Qatar environmentally responsible in the first place?) I presume that solar panels will play a big part.

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« Reply #2 on Sept 19, 2011, 9:16am »		[Quote]
Lets hope so. My but they have outdone themselves with those stadium designs! Wow, that sea-shell looks spectacular.
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« Reply #3 on Sept 19, 2011, 5:09pm »		[Quote]
That Qatar video is THE COOLEST! My pick would be the first one, the dhow, as it seems less disruptive to the landscape and something around which communities and small businesses might naturally spring up. The others all look as though they'd evolve into rather bleak sports centers. I hated the last one, with all the flashing, moving screens. How'd you like to live near that? :-/

One thing that really strikes me looking at all these videos is how much work the building of them supplies, with opportunities for on-the-job training in many cases. Also, there will be continuing work for maintenance people, concessionaires, advertisers, etc., not to mention providing a new area for growth around these stadiums. That said, I have no idea what they'd be displacing.
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« Reply #4 on Sept 19, 2011, 5:26pm »		[Quote]
One thing that nevertheless impresses me about the Qatar stadiums (and they have to build significantly more than 5 - those are just the first 5 projects) is how different each one is. One of the best things about wildly different architectural styles is that other places are able to quickly determine what works and what doesn't once these places are finally built. The last flashy place appears to be isolated from residential areas and even if it is over the top, it give ideas on the sort of displays that can be used in the future with all of the advances in luminary technology.
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Oh -- duh! I thought those were all different proposals for one single stadium that was to be built. Thanks.

I thought the ugliest one was the basket thing with the different colored ribbons. However, the video indicated that parts of that stadium were temporary, so perhaps the permanent version will be completely different.
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I think those 5 stadiums have already been validated.
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