{"id":13,"date":"2013-04-12T00:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T04:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/?p=13"},"modified":"2015-05-01T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:34:33","slug":"sustainability-and-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/2013\/04\/12\/sustainability-and-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability and Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large sports arenas are perhaps one of the most inefficient land uses out there. Large buildings, used for a handful of days a year, with oversized parking lots and traffic nightmares for the community. Since my days taking classes with <a href=\"http:\/\/davidharvey.org\" target=\"_blank\">David Harve<\/a>y at <a href=\"http:\/\/jhu.edu\/dogee\" target=\"_blank\">Johns Hopkins<\/a> &#8212; when we spoke about all the problems with the (then) newly opened <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.orioles.mlb.com\/bal\/ballpark\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Oriole Park at Camden Yards<\/a> &#8212; I have been critical of this wave of publicly funded stadium construction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0268-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"14 35-foot microturbines installed at the stadium\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0268-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0268-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0268-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>So I was a bit skeptical back in late 2010 when the Philadelphia Eagles were trying to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/multivu.prnewswire.com\/mnr\/philadelphiaeagles\/47290\/\" target=\"_blank\">first net-zero energy stadium<\/a>. Then, when the deal with SolarBlue fell through, I wasn&#8217;t surprised. But last spring, the Eagles once again announced a plan to install solar and wind facilities at Lincoln Financial Field &#8212; this time with Princeton-based NRG. And this time things are moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0276-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"11000 solar panels affixed to Lincoln Financial Field\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0276-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0276-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/files\/2013\/04\/IMAG0276-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I had a chance today to take a tour of the stadium, as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sustainability.temple.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campus Sustainability Week<\/a>\u00a0activities here at Temple. And I have to admit that I was impressed. A few details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everything used in the stadium &#8212; all the way down to the beverage cups, hot dog wrappers, and beer cans (no more plastic) is either recyclable or compostable. Both are taken to off-site facilities for reprocessing.<\/li>\n<li>The team makes green sourcing (paint, carpets, etc.) a condition of any RFP they issue.<\/li>\n<li>And for what the team can&#8217;t control (tailgate trash), waste is separated and brought to a nearby cogeneration facility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The result: 99.89% of waste is diverted from landfill.<\/h3>\n<p>Now, all of this isn&#8217;t going to make me an Eagles fan, but I have to say I&#8217;m very impressed by their result at Going Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large sports arenas are perhaps one of the most inefficient land uses out there. Large buildings, used for a handful of days a year, with oversized parking lots and traffic nightmares for the community. Since my days taking classes with David Harvey at Johns Hopkins &#8212; when we spoke about all the problems with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/2013\/04\/12\/sustainability-and-sport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sustainability and Sport<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}