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Plus, Only Teams With Animal Names Can Play
Super Bowl gets greener, offsets emissions for first time |
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25 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Plus, Only Teams With Animal Names Can Play Super Bowl gets greener, offsets emissions for first time Until this year, we loved the Super Bowl for precisely three reasons: beer, commercials, and ass-slapping. But we're adding a fourth reason this year, as the NFL will be planting native trees and buying renewable-energy certificates to offset greenhouse-gas emissions from the game. Yes -- guilt-free beer farts! "Carb ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, outdoor recreation (all these topics) |
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More Poles to Worry About
Global warming makes skiing World Cup circuit hit the skids |
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01 Dec 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| More Poles to Worry About Global warming makes skiing World Cup circuit hit the skids Global warming is wreaking mountains of havoc on skiing's World Cup circuit, with stops canceled due to weirdly warm temps at European resorts. Cross-country teams are all training in one place in Italy, unable to find snow elsewhere in central Europe; the only cross-country race held so far this year, in Finland, saw ra ... |
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| Topics: climate, European Union, news, outdoor recreation (all these topics) |
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Diamonds Are Forever
Swiss glacier to be wrapped up, saved for later |
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05 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Diamonds Are Forever Swiss glacier to be wrapped up, saved for later A Swiss ski resort worried about global warming's ill effects on its future is taking matters into its own mittened hands. At the ski season's end in May, the Andermatt resort will cover some 32,200 square feet of the Gurschen glacier with an insulating PVC foam in hopes of keeping its black diamonds from melting in ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental planning, news, outdoor recreation, Switzerland (all these topics) |
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