Philadelphia Eagles Look for Savings With Green Stadium
PHILADELPHIA — Renewable energy firm Solar Blue has contracted with the Philadelphia Eagles football team to transform their 70,000-seat stadium into one that generates its own electricity from renewable energy sources, the team announced late last week.
Solar Blue, which is based in Orlando, Fla., will fit the Lincoln Financial Field with 2,500 solar panels, 80 20-foot wind turbines and an alternative-fuels power plant that is estimated will save the team $60 million in electricity costs over 20 years.
The 20-year contra
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LEED Silver Rec Center Expected to Revitalize Neighborhood
ST. LOUIS — On the city’s north side, work is under way on a $22 million, 79,000-square-foot recreation center designed to achieve LEED Silver certification.
The O’Fallon Park Recreation Complex, scheduled for completion by the end of 2011, will be the second community center built in the city since the 1970s. The facility is being touted as a revitalizing effort for the impoverished North St. Louis, according to city officials.
“We don’t have a YMCA or anything over here,” says St.
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