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Published on October 2nd, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

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Over 3,000 Push Largest Football Stadium to Go Solar

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October 2nd, 2011 by Zachary Shahan 

largest football stadium in north america

An organization in Ann Arbor, Michigan started a campaign focused on getting the largest football stadium in North America, the University of Michigan’s Michigan Stadium (aka “The Big House”), to go solar. The organization, The Ecology Center, has teamed up with Change.org to try to get more people behind the effort. So far, over 3,000 have signed a petition to power The Big House with solar.

“What these activists have accomplished is really impressive,” said Jess Leber, a senior organizer for Change.org, the world’s fastest-growing platform for social change. “In just a few weeks, the Ecology Center has inspired thousands of University of Michigan community members to make their voices heard on solar energy. Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it has been incredible to watch the Ecology Center’s campaign take off.”

You can sign the petition created by The Ecology Center and Change.org right here on our page:

And you can learn more about the effort on sister site Planetsave (Over 3,000 Call on Largest U.S. Stadium to Go Solar).

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  • http://greenwindmill.com/ Peter Sharma III

    Given the location of UM’s Big House, Wind Power is far more appropriate and a far less expensive solution

    • Anonymous

      guess they didn’t think about that :P

      you could try contacting them (The Ecology Center) to see if they want to alter their “call to action” to include wind (or even replace solar with it).

  • Peter

    I’ve been wondering for a while when a domed stadium will be called the ‘Solardome’. This will be stadium with a domed roof fully covered with PV cells. So many stadiums host only a few game days a year so outside of game days many could potentially be net energy generators. I’m sure as PV cells continue to fall in price many more stadium roofs will see PV cells installed.

    • Anonymous

      Sounds like a good idea :D

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