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Washington Nationals will play in first U.S. green-built stadium

Posted at 4:00 PM on 28 Mar 2008

The Washington Nationals will play their baseball season opener Sunday in the first green-built professional stadium in the U.S. The LEED Silver certified ballpark was built on a restored brownfield, and many building materials were produced locally. The stadium boasts efficient lighting and plumbing, drought-resistant plants, a concession area with a green roof, filters to keep stormwater runoff out of the nearby Anacostia River, and proximity to public transit (as well as a shortage of parking). Throwing out the ceremonial first pitch as the Nats take on the Atlanta Braves: President George W. Bush. He's sure to be hit. Er, a hit.

sources: Reuters, Greenwire (access ain't free), The Swamp
see also, in Grist: Japan will shorten pro baseball games to cut emissions

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Just less brown

Green would mean SUSTAINABLE. Having parking for any fossil-fool powered wheelchairs for non-handicapped individuals is brown. Some local materials does not make it green either, it just means there is a slight reduction in the shade of brown. Lights? Since when do you need lights to play baseball, especially when the east coast grid is mostly coal. This thing will have a carbon footprint that vastly exceeds its acreage.

by human power at 7:25 PM on 28 Mar 2008

We Must be Doing Something Right, To Last 100 yrs

Baseball is proven to be the most sustainable sport...100 years and still going.

Texeme.Construct(Participant)

by jabailo at 10:22 AM on 31 Mar 2008

W's last pitch

Deservedly, W was roundly boo-ed, whether for his bad pitch or his bad policies (or both), i do not know. I do know that Faux News cut the audio to spare their viewers the humiliation they so richly deserve.

by ed abbey at 12:11 PM on 31 Mar 2008

Aah .....

Syphilis has been around a 100 years too .....

You got to like the "why don't they like me daddy?" stupidity of George Beelzebub Bush.

"We Have Found the Enemy and It Is Us" ... Pogo

by rrecroc at 5:44 PM on 31 Mar 2008

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