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On the Ball: World Cup green-ness
Soccer's biggest to-do goes green. |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
06 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| This article says that more than 30 billion people -- out of a world population of 6.6 billion -- are expected to tune into the upcoming soccer football World Cup. So that just goes to show you how popular soccer football is.The event kicks off (ha!) on Friday in Germany and my fiancé would be happy to tell you when all the games are being played, which team is playing which, what their chances are of moving to the next round, what color each team wears, the name ... |
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| Topics: sports (all these topics) |
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Swifter, Higher, Greener
How the Olympics are becoming a sustainable business |
John Elkington, Mark Lee |
17 Jan 2006 |
Full Disclosure |
| By John Elkington and Mark Lee 17 Jan 2006 |
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| Topics: business, Full Disclosure, London, sports, Vancouver (all these topics) |
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101 days to the bobsleigh
XX Winter Games coming up in Italy |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
31 Oct 2005 |
Gristmill |
| So did you know the Winter Olympics are only a few months away? Because I didn't. I've read about the enviro-hell that is Beijing 2008 and the enviro-heaven that is London 2012, but it totally didn't occur to me until now that the luge (my favorite sport to say) will be broadcast to you and me in February. Torino 2006, baby! Oh good. They appear to be looking out for the environment. Sorry -- perhaps this doesn't belong on Gristmill, but I don't have a blog of ... |
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| Topics: sports (all these topics) |
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Leave no trace. Seriously, don't.
Mountaineering teams organize to clean up the world's highest mountain peaks |
Todd Hymas Samkara |
22 Sep 2005 |
Gristmill |
| A few months ago, gutsy French test pilot Didier Delsalle landed a helicopter on top of Mount Everest in 75 mph hour winds -- no, not crashed -- quite obviously the highest landing place on earth. He was the first to successfully summit Everest by copter. And just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, he did it twice. The previous highest helicopter landing was some 9,035 feet lower, at about 20,000 feet, the record set in 1996 by Nepalese pilot Madan Khatri Chhetri ... |
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| Topics: Nepal, sports, waste (all these topics) |
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A league of their own
Now your $9 ballpark beer comes in an eco-cup |
Katharine Wroth |
10 May 2005 |
Gristmill |
| It's a single piece of news, but a revolution in its own right: starting Friday, the Oakland A's will serve drinks in compostable cornstarch cups, and provide compostable cutlery too. McAfee Coliseum staffers will dig the items out of the trash at the end of each game -- pausing only briefly to wonder if they should have taken that internship with Dad's friend's company instead -- and ship the whole beery, mustardy mess to a composting facility. It's all part of sta ... |
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| Topics: food, sports, waste (all these topics) |
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I can ski clearly now
Indoor ski slopes are the desert's hot new thing |
Katharine Wroth |
27 Apr 2005 |
Gristmill |
| A while back, I wrote about indoor ski slopes blooming in countries including Japan, England, and the U.S. of A. Seems it's an upward trend: The United Arab Emirates has just joined the herringboning hordes. Yes, that's right, the world will soon have its first desert skiing area, thanks to enterprising developers in Dubai. Will we end up in a world where all the snow and ice is gone, and the only way to ski is indoors, in the desert? Will the desert still be the d ... |
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| Topics: sports (all these topics) |
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Paper beating scissors
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Chip Giller |
20 Oct 2004 |
Gristmill |
| For those who despair about the environment, who wonder, say, whether the world will ever take sufficient action to counter climate change, I give you ... the 2004 Boston Red Sox. Down 3-0 against their arch-nemeses, the New York Yankees, the Sox rallied tonight to win the seven-game series, becoming the first team in the history of Major League Baseball to overcome such a deficit. To a lifelong Red Sox fan -- someone conditioned from birth to always dream but never ac ... |
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To Ski or Not to Ski...
On skiing |
Umbra Fisk |
10 Dec 2002 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, With winter fast approaching, I was thinking of learning to ski. I was wondering how skiing ranks among recreational activities in terms of its environmental impact. What are all the effects of clearing ski trails, making snow, and operating ski lifts? Not to mention all the resorts and roads that sprout up to service the skiers. Should I hit the slopes or stay inside sipping hot cocoa (organic, shade-grown, and fairly trade ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, habitat loss, sports (all these topics) |
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Grim Limb Gym
On chlorinated swimming pools |
Umbra Fisk |
21 Jun 2002 |
Ask Umbra |
| Umbra, I recently managed to mangle my knee and am going through all the 4,673 steps necessary to unmangle it and make it happy and functional again. One of the things my doctor advised me to do was swim. Well, swimming pools are of course full of chlorine! Hey, I just bought an expensive filter for my shower to keep the chlorine off the largest organ of my body, my skin. So what are the risks of contact with chlorinated water ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, sports, toxics (all these topics) |
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