May 28 2008

Baseball Swinging for More Green Yards

This just in from the sports desk: Major League Baseball is going green in more parks around the American and National leagues, reports Craig Rubens at earth2tech. That's good news for this fan because I'm not getting much happiness from my struggling San Francisco Giants, nine games out of first place this morning and heading for a sub-.500 season.

Rubens has put together an informative roundup of baseball parks adding solar systems to light up scoreboards and even heat up water at Boston's ancient Fenway Park. San Francisco's cozy AT&T Park on the waterfront gets a mention for its organic hot dogs and solar panels, the latter installed by PG&E.

We can expect more clubs to embrace solar and other environmentally friendly features as new baseball parks are built. We profiled the Washington Nationals' new green stadium at the opening of this season, and next season we'll see two new yards in New York -- a new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and a new park for the Mets in Queens. We can also look for more developments like the Philadelphia Phillies' investment in renewable energy certificates reported in April by my colleague Keely Wachs.

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