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As much as the greening of sports was a mirage to many skeptics, it is no longer a pie in the sky now — it’s moving forward dramatically. Stadiums have installed wind and solar operations, improved lighting efficiency, ramped up recycling efforts and diverted increasing amounts of organic waste from the landfill through composting efforts. The payback is not just good public relations but, increasingly, real bottom-line savings. The story of the Seattle Mariners explains how this can work. First, he Seattle Mariners baseball team saw first-hand the financial benefits of working for energy efficiency when it reduced natural gas use 60% and electricity use by 30% from 2006 to 2009 at Safeco Field. The Mariners now have one of the most comprehensive environmental programs in sports. The change was questioned by a lot of naysayers, but the numbers eventually convinced them. Now the Mariners’ stadium is the exemplary model of green practice.

綠化運動曾是許多懷疑論者的幻想，但如今它已不再是天上掉餡餅的事了，它正在迅速向前發展。體育館已經安裝了風能和太陽能設備，提高了照明效率，加大了回收工作，並通過堆肥工作將越來越多的有機廢物從垃圾填埋場轉移出去。得到的回饋不僅是良好的公共關係，還有越來越多底蘊。西雅圖水手隊的故事解釋了這是如何作用的。首先，西雅圖水手棒球隊親眼看到了為提高能源效率而進行的財務收益，在2006年至2009年期間，它在Safeco Field減少了60％的天然氣使用和30％的電力使用。水手們現在擁有體育界最全面的環境計劃之一。起初許多反對者對這一變化提出了質疑，但這些數字最終使他們信服。現在，水手體育場是綠色實踐的典範。