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Eco-Friendly Green Football Stadiums Help Environment

Top ten eco-friendly green football stadiums include site of Super Bowl LXV

The real winner of Super Bowl XLV was the environment, because Cowboys Stadium is one of the most environmentally friendly stadiums in the USA.  It’s in the top five of a list of ten compiled by SunRun, which provides and installs [...]

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Solar Powered Brewbub in Portland, Oregon

Lucky Lab Brewpub, Portland, Oregon, is solar powered

Portland, Oregon is one of the most environmentally friendly cities on the planet, so it should not surprise anybody that this green, eco-travel destination has a solar-powered brewpub.

Portland’s Lucky Labrador Brew Pub is the first brewpub in Oregon to use solar power to brew beer.  [...]

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Solar Power Recharges Electric Car

MINI-E Electric Car

Talk about sustainable energy — recharge your electric car with solar power.  There are a handful of solar-powered charging stations around the world where drivers can juice up their EV vehicles, and one of them has just opened in New York City.

Solar power to recharge EV cars could be a game-changer, [...]

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Top Green Rating for No. Carolina Hotel

Proximity Hotel, Greensboro, N.C., LEED Platinum

Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, N.C., is LEED Platinum

How appropriate — the hotel with the world’s top green rating is in the city of Greensboro. It’s the Proximity Hotel, one of the few hotels anywhere to achieve the LEED Platinum rating.  Don’t think you have to give up luxury to travel green — this hotel has an AAA Four Diamond rating.

Platinum and diamond — that’s a great combination.

The Priximity Hotel was built to use 40% less energy and 30% less water than a comparable hotel, and features such state-of-the-art technologies as the first installation in North America of the regenerative drive for Otis’ Gen2 elevator.  This system reduces energy usage by capturing energy and feeding it back into the building’s internal electrical grid.

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