The fourth major of the 2010 PGA Tour, The PGA Championship, was played this past weekend at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin.  If you watched any of The Championship on television, you noticed the breathtaking views of this daunting Pete Dye-designed course along two miles of Lake Michigan’s shoreline and the fact that bunkers, in [...]

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If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, you know, I like a good eco-sports story and if it has a Philly angle, all the better.  This story does have those components but it has a little background stuff too. Indulge me for a moment if you would. The NHL playoffs have started and [...]

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Over the last several years baseball has greened it’s image. Since 2008, Major League Baseball has partnered with the National Resource Defense Council’s (NRDC) to guide teams toward more sustainable operations, and ones that will save teams money, too. Many teams have already invested in energy-sipping LED stadium lights and TV screens, started grand-scale recycling [...]

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Back in September 2009, ProGreenSports polled more than 50 North American professional sports teams in the National Football League, National Hockey League, National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. The survey results released late last month reveal, rather convincingly, that pro sports teams are increasingly “going green.” For example:

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It’s the start of baseball and as many of you know, I love baseball and good eco-sports stories.   This post isn’t about baseball (Go Phillies) but a cool panel discussion taking place today.  Like opening day, I would have given anything to attend.  The program is at Middlebury College in Vermont and is titled “Jocks and Treehuggers: [...]

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Football is a brutal sport and at the same time it’s truly amazing to watch grown men do what they do.  Don’t get me wrong, I love it and I just wish the Eagles were playing and not the Cardinals.  But the NFL does have a soft side or green side if you will.  For the last several [...]

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