While AFC champion Denver Broncos and NFC Champion Carolina Panthers will play for all the marbles this Sunday at Levi’s Stadium, Super Bowl 50 is an environmental sustainability champion of its own. While earlier Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XLVIII in East Rutherford New Jersey in 2014, and Super Bowl … [continued]
The Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL) have gone to the end zone for a solar touchdown. The two-time NFL Super Bowl champions announced they are teaming with energy company Constellation for a 375 kW power plant at the football clubs headquarters and training facilities in Owings Mills, Maryland. The Baltimore Ravens … [continued]
Super Bowl XLIX is scoring a major energy efficiency touchdown. For the first time, a Super Bowl is being played under LED lighting. Millions of television viewers and over 63,000 in attendance at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, will watch the National Football League’s (NFL) showcase game between … [continued]
100% wind power, energy efficiency and recycling, and solar-powered teams are combining to make Super Bowl XLIX the greenest Super Bowl in history.
Originally published on EnergySage. In the past, we’ve written about solar beginning to reach the MLB and the NFL. But since then, more and more professional sports teams are realizing the amazing power of solar energy. In an effort to both reduce their carbon footprint and save money, sports teams across the country are … [continued]
We’ve written about football teams going solar before (the New York Giants, New York Jets, Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots, and San Francisco 49ers), but this new partnership between the Denver Broncos and Ascent Solar throws a twist on things. Check out the news in this Solar Love … [continued]
Even though the 2013 National Football League season is about six months away, one team is driving the ball down the field in helping to boost the changing image of spectator sports as a champion in environmental sustainability. Sunpower is helping recent Super Bowl Finalists, the San Francisco 49ers, by … [continued]
Three thousand dairy cows from Green Meadows Farm in central Michigan will do their part to offset greenhouse gas emissions related to Super Bowl XLVII, with the ambitious goal of making this year’s game the “greenest ever.” The offset, which is available for fans to purchase through the Super Bowl … [continued]
Yet another one of the great speakers who will be at Total Energy USA this year is Jonathan Kraft of The Kraft Group. Due to our relationship with the conference, like my interview opportunity with Gordon Gill of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, I had the chance to interview Jonathan Kraft this … [continued]
This is no football fantasy: NFL stadiums are aiming to be a little greener. At MetLife Stadium — home to both the New York Giants and Jets — about 1,350 solar panels form a ring around the top of the structure. This solar panel ring, designed by NRG Energy, … [continued]
