Rosenborg Tackle Global Warming

By: Daryl | February 15th, 2008

We’ve already learned that Barack Obama is a West Ham fan, and now we know who Al Gore supports. Or at least who he should support. Rosenborg Trondheim – who used to dominate the Norwegian Premier League but finished fifth last season – are making serious efforts to go green and are hoping other teams will follow. They’ve just spent $40,000 to make the club more energy efficient, money they expect to earn back in about half a year’s time. The new setup includes:

• Heating and ventilation that switches off during office hours
• Water-saving shower-heads in the dressing room
• Insulated water pipes to prevent heat loss
• More judicious use of under-soil heating
• Computer program to switch off floodlights when no-one’s there

The players are doing their part too (well one of them is anyway) as winger Michael Jamtfall has started driving an electric car.

Apparently the measures will reduce Rosenborg’s annual energy use by the equivalent of 40 Norwegian homes. And if you’re familiar with Norway you’ll know that’s 40 homes where the heating’s on a lot.

Big respect to Rosenborg for making the effort, and here’s hoping the idea will catch on elsewhere. I’d love to know how environmentally friendly all the European big boys are, and what tiny drop in the ocean of their enormous budgets it would take to improve their energy efficiency.

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Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, enegery efficiency, environment, Global Warming, green, Norway, Norwegian Premier League, rosenberg, West Ham, World Football, World Soccer

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• cfc069 |  February 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

  
  
  

  Funny really how Al Gore has taken it upon himself to point out to the World how climate change or global warming will ‘blow’ up this planet in generations to come, including yours Daryl, when the BIG USA are telling the world what to do and the BIG USA can’t be bothered to sort out their own CO2 emissions. And then there is China spilling out all their s**t and Romanis too and here we are in the UK, in the back pocket of GWB and former Presidents telling us wot to do and we do it – I hope ur next President will tell us to FO, likewise we will do the same!!!

  Anyway rant over this is a football aka soccer blog!!!

  KTBFFH

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• Erinti |  February 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

  
  
  

  A round of applause for Rosenborg, and, yes, let’s hope other clubs follow suit.

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• Jan |  February 15th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

  
  
  

  Hmmm, shouldn’t Norway embrace global warming? Because global warming would go a long way to get their energy consumption down, since they no longer have to heat their homes so much.

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• Erinti |  February 16th, 2008 at 12:39 am

  
  
  

  I suspect tbat too many of Norway’s population centers are coastal and low-lying to make that an unadulterated positive.

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