Penn State Grows Green Sports Program | Alice Henly's Blog ...

This week Penn State University hosted NRDC and the Green Sports Alliance as part of their Earth Week celebrations, which coincided with the annual Blue-White spring football game. ?It was the perfect opportunity to talk green sports.?

Since 1995, Penn State has worked to implement more environmentally friendly practices throughout athletics and recreation.?Penn State University is home to the first U.S. ballpark to be awarded LEED certification. In 2006,?Medlar Field?became LEED certified thanks to a variety of greener building practices, including: using only waterless urinals, plumbing for grey water throughout, using recycled content for all locally-manufactured stadium seats, an advanced recycling program and diverting over 75% of construction waste from landfill.?

Some other examples of their successes to date in greener sports operations include:

While in town, we had the privilege of touring these impressive facilities and programs as well as presenting to the Smeal College of Business Net Impact group about the?professional and collegiate?sports greening movement. The students were energized to build on the S.T.A.T.E.R.S program to integrate student-led greening projects across athletics and reaction facilities at Penn State.

Net Impact students plan to join with a newly formed staff Athletics Green Team to take advantage of the strong business case for greening, from operational cost savings to branding opportunities and attracting new sponsors.?The staff/student green sports coalition seeks to grow Penn State's leadership in sustainability on campus and throughout their community by using their powerful sports platform.

"Sustainability is a great way to lead our community, and we all have a role to play," said Bill O'Brien, head coach of Penn State's football team. "After all, Penn State has the first LEED stadium in the United States."

Get involved in the growing green sports movement and learn about the?NRDC Sports Project?by following us at?@NRDCGreenSports?and #GreenSports.

Source: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ahenly/penn_state_building_green_spor.html

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