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NBA Green Week Presented by Sprint Tips Off Encouraging Fans to Go Green

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NBA Green Week Presented by Sprint Tips Off Encouraging Fans to Go Green


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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The NBA today tips off NBA Green Week presented by Sprint, featuring community greening projects, recycling programs, green giveaways, special adidas oncourt apparel, and auctions to encourage fans to “go green.” Continuing through April 12, this marks the fifth year of the leaguewide Green Week hosted in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

In conjunction with Green Week, the NBA is also launching Mosaic, an on-line tool designed to measure environmental impact. In partnership with NRDC and Renewable Choice Energy, Mosaic will allow all NBA teams and venues to track, analyze, and identify cost savings opportunities within their environmental footprint. In addition, as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce its carbon footprint, the league also will work with Sterling Planet – a leading supplier of renewable energy – to offset the amount of electricity used during all 67 NBA games taking place during Green Week. This commitment will result in a carbon avoidance of more than 10 million pounds, which will be one of the largest pollution offset initiatives by any sports league worldwide, and the only one to involve every team in the league.

Throughout NBA Green Week presented by Sprint, adidas – the league’s official oncourt apparel provider – will outfit all players with 100 percent organic cotton adidas shooting shirts, available at NBAStore.com and the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Players will also wear NBA Green headbands and wristbands made from 45 percent organic cotton, while NBA coaches and broadcasters will wear NBA Green lapel pins, all in an effort to raise additional awareness. NBA teams across the league will also host in-arena nights along with a variety of events and activities in the community to support environmental protection. In addition, the NBA and Sprint are launching “Pledge to Recycle”, a fan contest that tips off today, April 4, and continues through May 16. …read more

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Constellation Powers Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks Environmental Goals with Green Games as Earth Mont

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Constellation Powers Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks Environmental Goals with Green Games as Earth Month Begins

Video highlights “Go-Green” games at United Center; renewable energy certificates purchased by Constellation will avoid 115 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fans of the Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Bulls who will cheer the teams’ annual and environmentally friendly “Go-Green” games tonight and Friday can make every day Earth Day by promoting energy efficiency.

Constellation, the official energy provider for United Center and sponsor of the teams’ upcoming green games, invited fans to continue their support for the environment by submitting their own ‘Go Green‘ tips via the Blackhawks Facebook page and the Bulls Twitter wall for chances to win tickets to the teams’ respective “Go-Green” games.

“Like most winning organizations, the Bulls and Blackhawks and United Center have a comprehensive energy management strategy that incorporates efficiency and sustainability objectives,” said Bruce Stewart, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Constellation. “The second key to victory is a fierce competitive spirit. Illinois’ electricity supply market enjoys vibrant, robust competition and that means businesses and residential customers can save by shopping for power supply.”

Residential customers can choose Constellation as their home energy supplier at home.constellation.com and many can also choose to receive 100 percent wind energy.

Constellation is in the second year of its existing five-year sponsorship designating it the official energy provider for United Center.

As part of the agreement and sponsorship of the Go-Green games, Constellation will purchase Green-e Energy Certified renewable energy certificates (RECs) to match the electricity use on each game day. RECs represent the environmental benefit of electricity generated by wind and therefore avoid emissions associated with fossil fueled generation. For more information regarding Green-e Energy certification go to www.green-e.org.

The RECs for the Blackhawks game tonight are expected to avoid 63 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, roughly the equivalent of burning 146 barrels of oil. The use of RECs for the Bulls game on Friday is expected to avoid 52 metric tons of CO2, approximately the amount of emissions from 2,100 propane-fired home barbeques.

Constellation, an energy supplier since 1999 to Illinois businesses, schools and hospitals, sponsored similar efforts last year for the Chicago White Sox and Bears. In addition to powering United Center, Constellation also supplies electricity …read more
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