As of April 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies launched the “Red Goes Green” initiative, a program designed to lead the way in clean energy movements at professional sports venues.  By doing so, the Phillies became the first MLB team to join EPA’s Green Power Partnership (GPP) program.  The GPP is a voluntary program that encourages organization to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. 

With spring training for the upcoming 2010 season starting, the Phillies and Citizens Bank Park are encouraging their fans to participate in their green initiative with small steps to reduce their carbon footprints, both at games and at home.  As for the Phillies’ efforts for a cleaner environment, they are collaborating with Global Spectrum (the Citizens Bank Park operators) and Aramark (the Phillies food and beverage provider). 

Some of their steps toward reducing their carbon footprint include purchasing 20 million kilowatt-hours of Green-e Energy Certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to offset the team’s utility power usage at Citizens Bank Park.  2009 was the second consecutive year that the Phillies purchased 100% renewable energy for the calendar year; one year is equivalent to planting 100,000 trees.  Additionally, the “Red Goes Green” team is present at every home game to collect and promote recycling efforts.  As a result, the Phillies have seen an improvement in their recycling rate over the year of 2009. 

Let’s go PHILLIES!!