net zero carbon football match

[rab_rant]

Hello guys William Treehugger here, great news the next game between Tottenham and Chelsea will be a NetZero carbon game.

Fans will be urged to travel to the stadium via bicycle or public transport and eat only vegan food when Spurs host Chelsea in the Premier League on 19 September.

It is part of a plan to make the game the world's first net zero carbon fixture at elite level.

The clubs are working with broadcaster Sky to cut emissions around the match.

Fans will also be urged to take positive steps to reduce their own carbon footprint.

Both sets of players will arrive at the stadium on coaches powered by biofuel, and will be drinking water from more sustainable cartons rather than plastic bottles.

Food kiosks inside the stadium will also be offering a large selection of plant-based food options so fans can make a more sustainable choice.

you know it makes sense guys go for it. Save the planet... sorry flat earth.

[mentalcase]

Plant based Kane maybe

[whiteswan]

Is it April 1st?

[rab_rant]

Is it April 1st?

It is the truth I read it on the BBC site today so it must be true

[whiteswan]

I did read this on sky sports news (seriously)

The absolute cheek of SKY sports, who send their F1 reporters, their cricket reporters, football reporters blah blah blah all around the world on expensive jets....,(oh what about the carbon emissions boys).....oh, doesn't matter. No one will pick up on that because we've got sorry Spurs (desperate after the collapse of the money cow so called Super League ) to agree to this pathetic promo....really?
Folk go to footy matches how they want, by train or by car....however.....bike walk deary me. Then, you want a beer and a proper pie? Denied, What? Broccoli pasty is all you've got.....
I tell you now, this is dangerous ground. Do not take away the proper football experience from the fans, the excitement of travel, the excitement of a pint and proper grub
Players arriving on electric buses????? There is some massive gimmick (MASSIVE GIMMICK) going on here...Do not be taken in....we have to be careful, before the sport we love is taken away from us by these luvvies

[Muppet the Cat]

You need to drop to Division 2 for the world’s ‘greenest’ football club:

An English soccer club are trialling a kit made from recycled coffee bean waste.

Forest Green Rovers are owned by ‘green energy’ entrepreneur Dale Vince who has put sustainability at the heart of the club’s ethos. The club is fully powered by renewables, all match-day food is vegan, the pitch is organic and maintained by electric mowers and recycled water.

FIFA has recognised them as “world’s greenest football club”.
Already in a league of their own when it comes to sustainability in sport, innovative English soccer club Forest Green Rovers are trialling a kit made from coffee bean waste.

Rovers, owned by ‘green energy’ entrepreneur Dale Vince, who has promised to plant 3,000 trees every time his team wins
From vegan pies to compost: inside the world's first carbon-neutral football club. The club in leafy Gloucestershire has used a strip made from bamboo for two years, but the brains at kit partner PlayerLayer believe they have found a better alternative.

“We have been working with PlayerLayer looking for more sustainable materials for shirts after I learned that the default for modern sports kit had become 100% plastic which didn’t make much sense to me from an environment perspective or a performance perspective,” “We came up with bamboo and since them we have been looking for more sustainable versions and they came up with coffee a few months ago.”

Rovers are recognised by FIFA as the “world’s greenest football club” with Vince, a champion for the United Nations Sports for Climate Action initiative, hoping that more clubs will move towards greater sustainability.

Since becoming chairman in 2011, Vince has put sustainability at the heart of the club’s ethos. All the match-day food is vegan, the pitch at their Innocent New Lawn ground is organic and mowed by electric mowers and irrigated with recycled water, and the club is powered 100% by renewables.

An electric team bus is in the pipline too while Vince’s “monster project” is an eco-friendly all wooden stadium.

Playing in shirts consisting of three cups of bean waste and five plastic bottles, Vince says, could give Forest Green’s players a competitive edge as lab tests have shown them to be lighter and more breathable.

And he says it will also raise awareness of the waste in the clothing industry.

“These shirts are more sustainable because while bamboo is renewable and you can grow more, coffee is a waste product and the shirts will be completely recycled,” Vince said.

“We have to improve the ethics of clothing manufacture and the sustainability of the materials, and we have to use less, so we are only changing one of our three kits each year.”

[The Subhuman]

No nets? What's next jumpers for goalposts?

[whiteswan]

No nets? What's next jumpers for goalposts?

[rab_rant]

There are already credit cards that track your carbon foot print... how long before this will apply to all cards and if you exceed a certain monthly limit then credit is cut off.

[The Subhuman]

Make sure you have cash handy .. I'm old fashioned I use cash way more than a card ...Which was fun when shops stopped taking cash lockdown...

[Broad Ford]

Make sure you have cash handy .. I'm old fashioned I use cash way more than a card ...Which was fun when shops stopped taking cash lockdown...

Imagine the WWW owned and controlled by an elite. Then imagine what could happen once money is totally digitised and people need reminding to get back into line. Isn't it as easy as pulling the plug on the WWW and peoples spending?