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April 1, 2008
Nets and Barclays to offset carbon emissions vs. 76ers
AP via Yahoo! Sports
by Tom Canavan
So far as we can tell, this is not an April Fools joke.
The New Jersey Nets will support four worldwide projects to offset carbon emissions when they play the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night.
“We’re definitely the first NBA team to have a carbon neutral game,” said Julianne Waldron, the Nets’ environmental manager. “I don’t know if we’re the first sports franchise, I can’t speak to that, but I can say we are the first pro team to receive an accreditation of carbon neutral.”
The CarbonNeutral Company calculated that 449 tons of carbon dioxide would be produced Tuesday by fans and Nets’ personnel traveling to the game, energy use at the Izod Center and emissions from the 76ers bus trip from Philadelphia.
To offset that, the Nets will invest in a waste recovery project in India, a waste gas project in Germany, hydroplants in China and solar water heating systems in India.
Barclays PLC, the financial services firm which has bought naming rights for the Nets’ planned arena in Brooklyn, N.Y., is covering the cost of the carbon free night.
NoLandGrab: No word on whether Nets' principal owner Bruce Ratner will "go green" by harnessing the embodied energy in Prospect Heights buildings rather than bulldozing them to build a giant surface parking lot.
Posted by eric at April 1, 2008 12:24 PM