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Rams-Eagles in NFL's First Climate Neutral Regular Season Game

Rams-Eagles in NFL's First Climate Neutral Regular Season Game

Published 12-19-05

Submitted by StopGlobalWarming.org

Leading environmental organizations have partnered with two NFL teams to fight global warming and encourage fans to take action. StopGlobalWarming.org, a bi-partisan effort to bring all Americans together to fight global warming, and NativeEnergy, the only Native American owned marketer of carbon offsets and green energy solutions, have partnered with the St. Louis Rams and Philadelphia Eagles to offset the carbon pollution from energy that was used during yesterday's game at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.

Energy to heat the dome and power lights and equipment comes from fossil fuel sources, which means energy for Sunday's game will also produce about 58 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution. Organizers have arranged for clean energy from a Native American wind project in the midwest and energy from a Pennsylvania dairy farm methane project to be put onto the grid to offset the global warming impact of energy used on the playing field and in fan seating areas. The impact will be the same as powering some of the dome with wind turbines or taking 500 cars off the road for a week.

The major source of game-related CO2 will come from travel activities and accommodations. Fans, media, and teams traveling by air, bus, and car will generate more than 10,900 tons of CO2 - about 99% of the event's total carbon footprint. Organizers hope their effort will encourage fans, the media, and the entire professional sports industry to think about energy use differently and will move them to take action, either by joining the virtual march on Washington, DC, or by offsetting their own auto, home, or business energy impact with NativeEnergy.

"The Eagles and Rams have demonstrated leadership in the fight against global warming with new renewable energy projects, and we hope that everyone - not just sports fans - will follow their lead and take action now," says Laurie David, founder of StopGlobalWarming.org who, along with NRDC senior attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will be honored by the NFL for their commitment to the fight against global warming during halftime ceremonies. Earlier this year the Eagles and Rams became the first professional teams on StopGlobalWarming.org's virtual march.

With NativeEnergy, CO2 offsetting actually contributes directly to the construction of new renewable energy generators. NativeEnergy customers help finance new projects by purchasing a share of the renewable energy credits the projects will generate over their operating lives, bringing critical revenues to the project up front. Helping to build these new projects will diversify our nation's energy supply and displace energy that otherwise would come from burning fossil fuels, thereby reducing CO2 and other pollution.

For the past two years, the NFL has planted trees to sequester carbon emissions generated by some Super Bowl activities. The Rams-Eagles game is the first to offset its carbon footprint with new renewable energy projects, which will diversify the nation's energy supply while helping Native American tribes and Pennsylvania family farms to restore sustainable homeland economies in balance with the Earth.

In addition to NRDC and StopGlobalWarming.org, NativeEnergy's client list includes leading environmentally and socially responsible organizations: Ben & Jerry's, Stonyfield Farm, Timberland, Aveda, Clif Bar, College of the Atlantic, Co-op America, MTV, and the Clinton Global Initiative.

About NativeEnergy
NativeEnergy is a national marketer of renewable energy credits or "green tags," offering individuals and organizations a means to compensate for their global warming pollution, or to effectively power their homes and businesses with renewable energy. NativeEnergy's patent-pending business process brings upfront payment to renewable projects for their future green tag output, enabling its customers to help finance the construction of new wind farms and other renewable energy projects, such as tribal wind projects and methane digesters on Pennsylvania family dairy farms, which directly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to meet the nation's electricity needs. NativeEnergy also offers Green-e certified green tags from operating wind farms. Online at: www.nativeenergy.com.

About StopGlobalWarming.org
Stop Global Warming Virtual March on Washington is a non-political effort to bring all Americans together in one place, proving there is a vast consensus that global warming is here now and it is time for our country to start addressing it. With the support of leading scientists, political and religious leaders, prominent Americans and concerned citizens, the Virtual March on Washington will move across the United States via the Internet from one town to the next, showing the evidence of global warming's alarming affects, and highlighting real people's concerns and real solutions along the way. For more information and to join visit www.StopGlobalWarming.org.

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