Green games
Sports fans will be getting excited about the upcoming Soccer World Cup, which starts next month, and here’s some good news about the Cup: host nation Germany is hoping to make it a “Green” Cup by making it as carbon neutral as possible.
Perhaps the organisers of the Beijing 2008 Olympics could take a leaf out of Germany’s book? It would seem that their claims of running an environmentally friendly games will not be borne out in reality.
Bookmark to:
May 30th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Public transport should be free all the time. And all fast food drinks should be sold in reusable, or compostable containers, all the time, not just every four years.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
yeah the chinese have some problems allright. i read somewhere a while ago that the plan to seed clouds in order to “wash the city” and help meet clear day targets. inducing rain is an every day event in china apparantly.
a good thing too. harness and controll nature i say. wash the problem away. another instant solution to an everyday problem. what downstream impact? three gorges is a modern marvel… where can we build another…?
but good to see a major event taking a critical look at business as usual. does anyone know if there is a green equivalent to fairolympics.org?
June 1st, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Getting excited - I can’t wait.
It’s bloody torture!
Go England!
June 6th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
… another bloody pom…. *sigh*
Wonder what the carbon gain of just stopping people from attending live soccer matches, and televising on free-to-air, would be?
Yeah, ok, I hate soccer, ….it shows?
June 9th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
NZ seems to be one of the few countries in the world where it isn’t free to air. Apparantly in some other countries where it isn’t free they are “rioting in the streets”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5060164.stm
Yeah, ok, I hate Sky … it shows?