{"id":1158,"date":"2007-06-03T03:54:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2007-06-03T03:54:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T01:54:43","slug":"ecotality-sports-illustrated-calls-on-al-gore-to-help-make-the-stanley-cup-finals-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/ecotality-sports-illustrated-calls-on-al-gore-to-help-make-the-stanley-cup-finals-greener.html","title":{"rendered":"Ecotality: Sports Illustrated Calls On Al Gore To Help Make The Stanley Cup Finals Greener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenoptions.com\/files\/images\/stanleycup_0.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"190\" height=\"295\" \/><em>Editor&#039;s note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotality.com\/blog\/\">Ecotality<\/a>&#039;s Steve Caratzas takes note of another idea to green the world of sports: reconfiguring the format of hockey&#039;s Stanley Cup finals.  This post was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotality.com\/blog\/2007\/sports-illustrated-calls-on-al-gore-to-adjust-the-stanley-cup-finals-format\/\">originally published<\/a> on May 30, 2007. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>\u2019s Michael Farber has written <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/writers\/michael_farber\/05\/27\/playoff.format\/index.html\">an open letter to Al Gore<\/a>, pleading with the former Vice President to help green up the National Hockey League\u2019s Stanley Cup finals format.<\/p>\n<p>Farber is concerned with the NHL\u2019s current 2-2-1-1-1 system, wherein two games of the best-of-seven final series are played on one team\u2019s home ice, followed by two games on their opponent\u2019s home ice, returning back to the first team\u2019s home ice, then to the opponent\u2019s again, and finally \u2013 if seven games are required \u2013 one final game in the rink where the whole thing started. Confused? Perfect! Consider yourself a hockey fan.<\/p>\n<p>Farber is seeking a more environment-friendly configuration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You see, a 2-3-2 final would be a blessing for the environment. The NHL would be doing its patriotic best to be green \u2014 beyond its recycling of Anaheim Ducks defenseman Sean O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/green-options-blog?a=5ZyJZu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/green-options-blog?i=5ZyJZu\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?a=FLRXAQkR\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?i=FLRXAQkR\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?a=JomYEf3s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?i=JomYEf3s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/green-options-blog\/~4\/121662354\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#039;s note: Ecotality&#039;s Steve Caratzas takes note of another idea to green the world of sports: reconfiguring the format of hockey&#039;s Stanley Cup finals. This post was originally published on May 30, 2007. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Michael Farber has written an open letter to Al Gore, pleading with the former Vice President to help green up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}