Seattle Sounders announce plans to go carbon-neutral starting with 2019 season
The Sounders worked with the Seattle firm Sustainable Business Consulting to calculate the organization's greenhouse gas emissions and develop a plan to eliminate those sources in the 2019 season and thereafter.
NEWS | Sounders FC becomes first carbon neutral professional soccer club in North America.Through this commitment, we pledge our operations will make no net contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide. <1=Ý: https://t.co/W7BhYIFa0V pic.twitter.com/TLrcjWgAyL— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) February 14, 2019
For sources that can't be eliminated, like team travel, the Sounders will work to offset emissions in cooperation with Forterra, a nonprofit...
