http://starsports.org/blog Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:29:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Word comes this week that carbon emissions from U.S. power plants increased by 3 percent in 2007. This was not unexpected. Hydro generation was down. Coal use was up. But the main reason for the increase, according to the Edison Electric Institute, is an increased demand for electricity. This despite ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=62 We're wondering when business as usual will end. When the brackets are first established by geographic proximity, so teams cut down on their travel (as they do in other tournaments and in other NCAA divisions). When each team will know its carbon footprint associated with tournament play and compensate for it. When the ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=61 Claudia Deutsch, in today's New York Times , reports on the Steelcase decision to name a 10-megawatt wind farm after Peter Wege, son of Steelcase's founder and "a prominent Michigan environmentalist". With various mar/com folks weighing in, the article is really a consideration of why Steelcase didn't go the distance. "So ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=60 Nice. Kroenke Sports VP of venue operations Dave Jolette has led a very nice retrofit of the circa 1999 Pepsi Center, home of the Nuggets (NBA), Avalanche NHL), Mammoth (Lacrosse) and Crush (Arena football). The areana also hosts 200 sporting events and concerts a year and will be the ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=59 The University of Arkansas intercollegiate athletics and facilities management departments have instituted a recycling program for all home football and basketball games. While final numbers aren't yet available, the program has so far produced more the 45 tons of recycled materials, diverting more than a third of the waste stream ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=58 "Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles." — Pierre de Coubertin From the very moment the International Olympic Committee awarded Games of the 29th Olympiad to the City of ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=57 A handy summation of humankind's "rampant human ecological dysfunction" from William Rees, the originator of the "ecological footprint" concept. ... in the 20th century alone the human population quadrupled to over six billion, energy use (mostly fossil fuel) increased by a factor of 16, fish catches (but not fish) increased 35-fold, ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=56 "UK Bans U.S. Cotton Ads Over Green Claims" The Guardian reports that the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Cotton USA campaign that ends with the tag line "soft, sensual, and sustainable". Skeptical consumers — three complainants, apparently— argued that cotton is a "pesticide- and energy-intensive crop" that "depletes groundwater ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=55 Developed with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Major League Baseball has announced a "Team Greening Program" to support and coordinate the many environmentally sensitive practices now pursued by virtually every Major League club". "Baseball is a social institution with social responsibilities, and caring for the environment is inextricably linked to all ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=54 Shareholder resolutions requiring climate policies by leadership of publicly held companies have nearly doubled in the past two years. Story "Many U.S. companies are confronting the risks and opportunities from climate change, but others are not responding adequately – and they may be compromising their long-term competitiveness as a result. Investors ... http://starsports.org/blog/?p=53