Green Right Now Reports

One could count a thousand ways humans have soiled the planet, from shearing off mountaintops to mine coal to dredging the bottom of the ocean with heavy, coral-destroying equipment.

Congress zeroed in on one needless waste stream, this past week introducing legislation in both houses to stop cruise ships from releasing untreated sewage into the ocean.

The Senate’s Clean Cruise Ship Act, proposed by Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) would extend the Clean Water Act to regulate the millions of gallons of waste water from cruise ships. The net effect would be a ban on the release of raw, untreated sewage.

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By Tom Kessler
Green Right Now

Adam Archer thinks the world would be a much better place if people would only spend more time playing games on their computers and mobile phones. And he may just be right.

Archer, the founder and CEO of GamesThatGive, has a simple but compelling proposition: You sign on to play casual games on the site, designate a charity you want to support, and then sit back and have 70 percent of the revenue from advertising on those games go to your charity.

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Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Lobbyists for Los Angeles County will work against state legislation that would ease environmental and planning regulations to make way for a proposed 75,000-seat professional football stadium in the city of Industry. >> Read the full story

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By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now

Golf courses and environmentalists have had – and still have – a rather rocky relationship.

The land that courses are built on and their impact on habitats has been fiercely debated. As huge users of pesticides, fertilizers and water, golf courses have faced criticism for fouling the environment with chemical-filled runoff, potentially harming humans and wildlife and wasting huge quantities of precious water, even in drought-plagued areas.

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From Green Right Now Reports

When it comes to employing green practices, golf courses have been pretty much buried in a sand trap. That could change, with the help of a new best practices handbook from the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) and LandStudies, Inc.

Golf course superintendents can now take advantage of the new Water Resources Best Management Practices Handbook to help make their courses truly green. The handbook includes a detailed description of each recommended practice, its environmental benefit, and a local example with contact information so that superintendents can learn first-hand how to install the practice. There also are links to additional online resources.

“Pennsylvania has over 800 public and private golf courses covering thousands of acres of open space, streams and ponds,” Don Welsh, president & CEO of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, said in a statement. “With this Handbook, superintendents can improve water quality and watershed habitat at their courses using proven best management practices that in many cases will also lower maintenance costs.”

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From Green Right Now Reports
Phoenix Sun’s all-star guard and environmental advocate Steve Nash worked with Nike to this week launch the new Zoom MVP Trash Talk that is made from scrap materials left over from the footwear manufacturing process.
The shoe also will be packaged in Nike’s new Considered Design shoebox, made from 100 percent recycled [...]

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By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

Consider golfing in a downturn: On the one hand, golfers might find the club a great place to forget their troubles. On the other hand, country clubs are sure to be tightening their beltways, just like everyone else.

We recently stumbled on one way country clubs might keep their greens tidy, while keeping green, and saving cash – a triple win! Simply, it’s a robot.

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The following photos are all projects by Natural Lighting Co. in Phoenix. The designs, manufactures and installs daylighting systems in schools, commercial, industrial, military and retail environments. There are no electrical lights in use in any of these photos.

Photo: Natural Lighting Co.

Arizona Department of Transportation

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From the Environmental Protection Agency

The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.

Green Power Purchasing Award

Headquartered in Park City, Utah, Powdr Resorts owns seven resort complexes across the United States, including Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, Killington Resort and Pico Resort in Vermont, Mt. Bachelor in Oregon, Boreal Resort and Soda Springs Resort in California, Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort in Nevada, and Gorgoza Park, a tubing park in Utah. Powdr Resorts’ annual purchase of nearly 50 million kilowatt-hours of wind-derived renewable energy certificates (RECs) is enough to supply 100 percent of the operation’s total electricity use.

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From the Environmental Protection Agency

The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.

Green Power Purchasing Award

The Philadelphia Phillies are the first Major League Baseball team to join EPA’s Green
Power Partnership. The club currently buys 20 million kilowatt-hours annually, enough to power 100 percent of the annual electricity use for Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies’ purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) are from wind and biomass resources.

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By John DeFore

Hollywood is known for conspicuous environmentalism, but its legendary movie studios were built many decades before anyone thought about a production’s environmental impact. Now a team including former Paramount Pictures president David Kirkpatrick hopes to change that by building “the first all-union built, green, SMART studio facility in the world” — in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The team behind Plymouth Rock Studios announced this month that it “has registered its entire development project with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) in order to pursue campus-wide, new construction certification under Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED(R)) standards.”

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