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Why The Homes Of The Philadelphia Eagles and The Montreal Canadians Are Making Green Changes

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">Company brand and image is so important&period; How your business is seen will forever have the most weight on the success of your company&period; The image you project isn&&num;8217&semi;t just for your customers or potential customers&semi; it is for your own employees and even yourself&period; One of the ways that businesses are making changes to give out the right image is by taking green initiatives&period; As a model for smaller businesses&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s take a look at what 2 major sports franchises are doing in their company to improve image&period; They aren&&num;8217&semi;t just doing it because they can or because the owners are doing the morally right thing&period; The green dive is an investment that they expect to get a return on in revenue&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-1782 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;Why-Organizations-Like-the-Philedelphia-Eagles-and-the-Montreal-Canadians-are-Making-Green-Changes-wind-turbines&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Why The Homes Of The Philadelphia Eagles and The Montreal Canadians Are Making Green Changes" width&equals;"537" height&equals;"411" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;"><b>Touchdown&comma; Eagles&excl;<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">Lincoln Financial Field&comma; where the Philadelphia Eagles play their home games&comma; is now home to 11&comma;000 solar panels and 14 wind turbines&period; This will significantly reduce energy usage in a stadium which uses an enormous amount of electricity&period; These solar panels and wind turbines aren&&num;8217&semi;t kept a secret&comma; they are placed in highly visible locations&period; These additions changes were made in January&comma; but other changes have been made over the last ten years as part of the Eagles’ &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Go Green” campaign&period; The Eagles food services use compostable packaging&period; Cooking oil is converted into bio-diesel fuel&period; The team is nearing its goal of diverting all waste from the landfill&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-1781 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;Why-Organizations-Like-the-Philedelphia-Eagles-and-the-Montreal-Canadians-are-Making-Green-Changes-solar&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Why The Homes Of The Philadelphia Eagles and The Montreal Canadians Are Making Green Changes" width&equals;"476" height&equals;"352" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">The Eagles organization makes sure that their fans know about the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Go Green” initiative&period; Signs remind fans to help conserve by declaring that &&num;8220&semi;The only water we waste is sweat&period;&&num;8221&semi; A sign over the urinals in the Eagles stadium bathroom teases &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;recycle your beer here and your plastics outside”&period; The &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Go Green Playbook” on the website offers tips for fans to do their own &OpenCurlyQuote;greening’&period; Fans even accepted it when the team switched the Eagles Cheerleaders calendar from paper to digital&period; A digital calendar is almost entirely profit&comma; particularly when compared to the print version&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">Not only are the Eagles cutting costs&comma; but they are boosting the image of their brand enormously in their city which inspires a more loyal fan base&period; Everyone that the Eagles organization touches feels like a part of a unique&comma; cause driven community&period; That customer feeling and experience is invaluable to any business in this age&period; Green is how the Eagles are getting it done&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-1780 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;Why-Organizations-Like-the-Philedelphia-Eagles-and-the-Montreal-Canadians-are-Making-Green-Changes-go-green&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Why The Homes Of The Philadelphia Eagles and The Montreal Canadians Are Making Green Changes" width&equals;"599" height&equals;"322" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;"><b>Canadians&comma; Shot&comma; Score&excl;<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">The Canadians started their own green initiative a little less than ten years ago&period; Now their stadium&comma; Centre Bell&comma; is LEED certified&period; It also gained another vital certification known as ICI On Recycle&period; This Quebec government certification indicates the level to which the Canadiens now recycle&comma; buy recycled products and reduce their use of disposables&period; At least 80 percent of disposables must be recycled to get this certification&period; They now compost over 80 percent of their food waste&comma; too&period; Low flow fixtures help them reduce water use by 20 percent&period; The Canadians team and the Bell Center owners did spend more to make the changes&comma; but the costs evened out and then came down as the changes took hold&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">Centre Bell also has made energy cuts by reconfiguring the way they light their indoor venue&period; By using less lights to get the job done&comma; energy consumption is significantly reduced and you can bet the folks in Quebec heard about it through many different mediums&period; Rearranging your lighting with a good commercial electrician like <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000080&semi;"><span style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">Circle Electric&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;"> wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be a bad idea to implement in your company either&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-1779 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;Why-Organizations-Like-the-Philedelphia-Eagles-and-the-Montreal-Canadians-are-Making-Green-Changes-canadians&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Why The Homes Of The Philadelphia Eagles and The Montreal Canadians Are Making Green Changes" width&equals;"598" height&equals;"376" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;"><b>Other Teams<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">Many other teams are going green&comma; saving money and making a positive name for themselves&period; The Minnesota Twins organization recycles rainwater&comma; using it to wash down the seats&period; The San Francisco 49&&num;8217&semi;ers soon will have an all-new LEED stadium with living plants as insulation on the roof&period; Fans appreciate the measures that the Canadiens&comma; Eagles and other teams have taken&period; The positive public relations for such bold measures buys loyalty better than advertising endlessly on television and in the streets&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi;">So what are the take-aways&quest; Ponder this&colon; Do you really think that the green initiatives that are becoming so widespread among major businesses are just about good causes&quest; No&comma; the investment is much deeper than that and has everything to do with business goals&period; By increasing brand awareness as they reshape their brand&comma; companies drive quality performance internally and customer loyalty externally&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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