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BoKnows Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Awesome, seems like Jeff is trying to mend his public image though. Time to announce the team name, logo, jerseys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Amazing! If they truly deliver what they promised, zero waste, that will be amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mll Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Kaplan of ESPN has more details: Quote Amazon secured naming rights for Seattle's downtown arena that will house the new NHL team as well as the WNBA's Storm, but the company's name will not appear anywhere on the building. Instead, the arena will be called Climate Pledge Arena and will feature several green initiatives. "I think this is going to be a transformative moment in our industry," Tim Leiweke, CEO of the Oak View Group, told ESPN. "We spent a lot of time trying to figure it out, and get through the complications to pull it off. It wasn't easy. But to the credit of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, they said 'We'll act like a naming rights partner, but let's do this the right way. I don't need any more branding. What I need is to go save the planet.' It was brilliant." Climate Pledge Arena is trying to become the first arena in the world to earn net zero carbon certification by the International Living Future Institute. Among the unique features: • Ice for hockey games will be made from recaptured rainwater. Lewieke says there will be a "massive tank hidden underground next to the building" which can collect rainwater from the roof, but the team is also figuring out a way for people in the community to bring in rainwater from their own backyards. • All events will be "zero waste" -- a decision, Lewieke said, that was inspired by singer Billie Eilish. Leiweke said a few months ago as Eilish planned her latest tour, she asked every arena to eliminate as much single-waste plastic as possible. "I was like, I can't believe she got an entire syndication of arenas to come along and finally address this issue," Leiweke said. "I was so in awe that she made this part of the deal. When we were debating this, I said if she could do it for a night, couldn't we do this for 365 nights?" • At least 75% of the arena's food program will be sourced seasonally by local farmers and producers. Viable unused food will be donated to community food programs. • The arena will have all-electric operations. Carbon emissions and sustainability performance of all events will be measured and publicly disclosed. "This will be the most complicated engineering feat of any arena, ever," Leiweke said. "But we can do it. It's not going to be cheap. But we understand exactly what we're trying to do here. We're trying to find a way to really focus on trying to heal this planet. We've got to step up here and try to help the Earth, because it's sick." The cost of the building has been estimated at more than $900 million. The 18,100-seat venue is expected to host 200 events each year, including concerts and the NHL and WNBA games. The building is under construction on the Seattle Center campus on the site of the former KeyArena that was the primary home of the Seattle SuperSonics. Oak View Group decided to restore the original 44-million-pound roof. It was billed at the time as a move to restore a historical artifact, but Leiweke said it was also to reduce the embodied carbon of the building; the roof restoration inspired planners to embrace the full green initiative. There have been some delays in construction, mostly because of the coronavirus pandemic. However, the building is expected to be open in time for the NHL Seattle team's debut in 2021-22. "We still have some work to do until we know what date will work on this building," Lewieke said. "To some extent, it will be affected by the pandemic. We're on the pandemic's timeline; I don't know how to predict that yet. That said, we feel certain we're going to be fine with the NHL and we will be able to do some of the WNBA season, depending on what happens with them on their scheduling." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Climate-Dodge Agenda! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tre Mac Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 23 minutes ago, Nuxfanabroad said: Climate-Dodge Agenda! Ex-effin-actly Don't look at the rest of our operations: https://komonews.com/news/local/despite-green-pledges-amazons-carbon-footprint-grew-15 Quote The online shopping giant said it emitted 51.17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide last year, the equivalent of 13 coal burning power plants running for a year. That's up from 2018, when it emitted 44.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. Amazon disclosed its carbon footprint for the first time last year after employees pressured the company to do more to combat climate change. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonaldBrashear Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Sorry, but reused rain water to make the ice? That is ridiculous. Amazon is the worst offender. They ship out tiny items in huge massive cardboard boxes. They sell bottled water and plastic bags and anything you want. Anyone with a brain can tell that this is just a marketing campaign to try and convince people that Amazon isn't the devil. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/amazon-2b-climate-pledge-draws-praise-skepticism-as-total-carbon-footprin/580424/ "It's very hard to trust Amazon because they're not a transparent corporation and it's unclear what, who is going to benefit from this and whether it would actually be truly an environmentally sound approach," Larsen told Utility Dive. For instance, Larsen said, Amazon does not participate in the Carbon Disclosure Project, disclosing its own carbon emissions instead of reporting its footprint by CDP's standards, which enables benchmarking across other competitors. Amazon said it's using a third-party, APEX, to verify its greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019, Amazon's operations led to the equivalent of carbon dioxide emissions from 13 coal burning power plants running for a year. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamhuis Hip Check Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Im calling it, they are gonna be named the seattle primes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 This is a joke, right.....Calling a building, which is inherently bad for the climate, 'Climate Pledge' Arena....ok. I mean artificial ice-rinks and climate change......come'on Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DeNiro Posted June 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2020 The @S$ kicking we give them will also be renewable. 1 1 10 3 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubik Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, BoKnows said: Awesome, seems like Jeff is trying to mend his public image though. Time to announce the team name, logo, jerseys. after this announcement you can be sure that green will be their primary color Edited June 25, 2020 by Rubik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 8 minutes ago, DeNiro said: The @S$ kicking we give them will also be renewable. You sir, win the internet today! Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 The EP40 gives me nightmares Arena. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobayashi Maru Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Hamhuis Hip Check said: Im calling it, they are gonna be named the seattle primes Your Stanley cup should arrive in 2 years.....Sorry, it has been delayed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Kind of a weird name, but the idea is neat. I'd more interested in a team name though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKSR Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 2 hours ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: April 1st was a few months back... wait... are you serious?! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Guest Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 12 minutes ago, -AJ- said: Kind of a weird name, but the idea is neat. I'd more interested in a team name though. The Gore-iors? Thunberg's Thumpers? The Watermelons? You know cause green on the outside. Red on the inside. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squamfan Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 lol rogers arena be named Bike Lane Centre No Pipe Arena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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