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News Bytes: Buy Red Sox Tix, Support Charity

Here’s a round up of some stories from the day. The Red Sox Tickets for Charity program takes the lead. Then after the jump, read about the new Lone Star Faceoff charity hockey competition, as well as a Disability and the arts program that got an Olympics charity boost in the U.K.
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NBA Green Week Initiative Aims to Make League More Environmentally-Friendly; Green Week Top Ten

The NBA is in the heart of its Green Week initiative, which tipped off April 2 and closes April 10. The initiative is a parntership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) and is an on the NBA’s part to take steps to become a more environmentally-friendly organization.
The week features special oncourt apparel, auctions [...]

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Stewart Helps Thoroughbred Org; Sauter Visits Fort Bragg; Infineon Raceway Recycling

The Tony Stewart Foundation has awarded a $20,000 grant to Indianapolis-based Friends of Ferdinand Inc. (FFI), a not-for-profit volunteer organization that works with owners and trainers at the state’s two horse tracks to identify and obtain thoroughbreds that are nearing the end of their racing careers. FFI evaluates and retrains the horses, and finds [...]

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Reds’ Dickerson, Astros’ Cassel Starting We Play Green Organization to Help Environment

MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon wrote that Cincinnati Reds OF Chris Dickerson and Houston Astros P Jack Cassel have started We Play Green, “a non-profit organization with a mission to bring pro athletes together and create more environmental conservation.”
Dickerson said that MLB players “such as Jon Garland, James Shields and Reid Brignac of the Rays and [...]

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Coca-Cola Helping Homestead-Miami NASCAR Weekend Go Green; United Way on the 29

With the assistance of Coca-Cola Recycling, Homestead-Miami Speedway, which is hosting NASCAR’s series-crowning Ford Championship Weekend, November 14-16, has embarked on a major recycling effort. The effort includes a full sweep of the grandstands prior to the standard trash sweep. Highlights of the Homestead-Miami Speedway recycling efforts during the Championship finales:

Representatives sweeping the [...]

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Green Flag: Anheuser-Busch Encouraging NASCAR Fans to Recycle This Weekend

Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation has partnered with A-B’s local distributor, Bealer Distributing, and Lowe’s Motor Speedway to provide more than 250 Budweiser Recycling containers in the concourse, vendor display areas, infield and suites to recycle plastic and aluminum containers during this weekend’s NASCAR events at the speedway. In addition, campers at the four main campgrounds [...]

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Mariners-Orioles to be First Carbon-Neutral Game in MLB

In Seattle, Noel Lyn Smith reports that the Mariners “are celebrating Earth Day by sponsoring the first carbon-neutral game in the history” of MLB for tonight’s contest against the Baltimore Orioles at Safeco Field. In a partnership with Cedar Grove Composting, “the energy consumption of the game will be offset through financial investment in [...]

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Nets Host Sixers in First Ever CarbonNeutral NBA Game

The New Jersey Nets host the Philadelphia 76ers tonight at the IZOD Center for the first NBA game in history to be CarbonNeutral. All of the fan automobile travel, staff travel, IZOD Center energy use, and the bus trip for the 76ers have been included in the overall carbon footprint.
The Nets are eliminating [...]

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Nets First NBA Team to Be CarbonNeutral

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The New Jersey Nets have recently become the first major professional sports team to be accredited as CarbonNeutral. The Nets plan to lower their carbon footprint by focusing on improving energy efficiency, recycling rates, water efficiency, indoor environmental quality and establishing green procurement policies for the materials the Nets use [...]

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