Many of you may recall one of Heather's blog posts last year stating that the NFL was going to make the 2007 Super Bowl carbon neutral. She then posed the thought that maybe in 2008, the event would go "zero waste."

Well, unfortunately, we're not quite there yet. However, the event is going to go carbon neutral again this year.  From E! Magazine:

"Metro Phoenix’s largest power producer, Salt River Project, is supplying SRP EarthWise Energy renewable energy certificates to offset the Super Bowl (and its associated “NFL Experience” activities) with wind and solar power. Some Phoenix hotels will be offsetting their emissions in honor of the occasion, too. The NFL is also planting thousands of trees, enough to reforest more than 42 acres that were destroyed by in the 2002 Rodeo Chediski fire, the worst in Arizona’s history, in which over 400,000 acres were lost in the blaze."

And since the Super Bowl is such a huge event for football fans and non-football fans alike, we're talking about reaching a lot of people on the idea of being environmental stewards. Dare I say the environment is moving more into the mainstream?