From Blue to Green

[bluestevon]

I've been thinking about how we as a club can help meet the 2050 target for net zero. Should we be more green as a club?

For example Forest Green Rovers plans for a new stadium seem to be a step in the right direction. Link below:

Eco Park | WE ARE FGR

www.fgr.co.uk

Have we missed a trick with BMD to set another club first in terms of being green?

What else can we do to be more environmentally friendy? It may be the time for more drastic measures.

Some suggestions:

Recycling all players shirts to be reused for the next year.

Operate a bring your own reusable plastic cup policy for pints.

Request to only play daytime fixtures to reduce the need for floodlights.

Do away with player car parks and allocate bike stands only to encourage them to cycle to and from training and the stadium and allow extra days off for the longer away trip cycles.

Any other suggestions?

Put all the players on bikes linked with a generator on gaffers day, it'll keep the stadium powered for weeks

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I find it abhorrent that clubs fly to domestic fixtures.

Same- can't abuse them at the train station!

 

[Preki]

The FGR statement though - something of a contradiction in terms when it starts off all pious about green this, green that and sustainability and in the next breath talks about a car park sufficiently large enough to hold 1700 cars. Presumably, this will be restricted to users of electric cars only.

True they should invest in trams or something.

 

[CielosGrises]

Beer in paper cups, pies in paper boxes.

Ie. less single-use plastic waste.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I’m sure they’ll just pretend to do it like every single other big company

 

[Lee Smith]

As I was walking past a vegan restauarnt yesterday, a girl came out and said she knew me. But I never met herbivore.

 

[Groucho]

Or China could, like, stop building 48 coal power stations.

 

[Julius Geezer]

The roof has lots of solar panels going by the drone videos and all building services now use low carbon refrigeration along with BMS controlled low power lighting.
Don’t think there was much more they can do.

 

[Eggs]

Tv screens in the stadium is such a waste of electricity. You can see the highlights on match of the day.

…BMD has solar panels & the toilet outlets only have to go next door.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Curitiba 'bus rapid transit' BRT, would transform the city from the centre out and massively reduce wasteful car travel.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Wild idea, but hear me out.

Stop using floodlights.

Saves energy, also spares us from seeing the monstrosity masquerading as a football team/game. Sorted for most of the season.

 

[Merseyzig]

Yeah they could have hydroelectric power from the bogs with all the Evertonians' steaming Chang/Carling/Madri-fed piss. Hydroevertonian Power, if you will.

 

[matty1878]

I've been thinking about how we as a club can help meet the 2050 target for net zero. Should we be more green as a club?

For example Forest Green Rovers plans for a new stadium seem to be a step in the right direction. Link below:

Eco Park | WE ARE FGR

www.fgr.co.uk

Have we missed a trick with BMD to set another club first in terms of being green?

What else can we do to be more environmentally friendy? It may be the time for more drastic measures.

Some suggestions:

Recycling all players shirts to be reused for the next year.

Operate a bring your own reusable plastic cup policy for pints.

Request to only play daytime fixtures to reduce the need for floodlights.

Do away with player car parks and allocate bike stands only to encourage them to cycle to and from training and the stadium and allow extra days off for the longer away trip cycles.

Any other suggestions?

wha?

 

[zebedee]

…BMD has solar panels & the toilet outlets only have to go next door.

Was hoping the beer was going to improve to be honest. No cutting corners they said.

 

[Jacko93]

Part of the heating systems within the stadium is drawn from a district heating loop. There is a plant that is being built which uses, amongst others, groundnsource heat pumps which effectively draw latent heat out of the canal and use that to provide hot water systems. It's the same system that serves the tobacco warehouse apartments.
They should really have used it for all hot water provision in the stadium, reducing the need for domestic hot water plant and gas fired boilers, but they didn't.