Serve Green

Watch one of the videos below to learn more about how you can help the enviornment at home and on the road.

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  Tennis Channel Short: Serving Green in the Home

  Tennis Channel Short: Serving Green while Traveling

As tennis players and aficionados, maintaining a healthy environment for outdoor sports is a major priority.  The use of bio-diesel fuel and recycled products at highly attended sporting events such as the Tennis Channel Open are examples of how we can soften the impact of a tournament at the local level.  Our hope is that these and other eco-friendly improvements will create awareness and encourage the discussion of environmental issues among tennis fans.  Every fan can leave the tournament a winner by making small lifestyle changes like recycling garbage after the match, riding a bike to the tournament, or purchasing tennis equipment from companies that make yearly donations to environmental groups.  By initiating anew mindset focused on green behavior within our community, we are taking initial steps to protect the places we play.


Tennis Channel Open Green Initiative

The Tennis Channel Open is among the first U.S. ATP tournaments to embrace "Green". See everything we are doing to make the 2008 tournament "Green":

• All generators will run on clean-burning, bio-diesel fuel.
• The player transport cars will run on bio-diesel fuel (Mercedes-Benz).
• There will be plenty of recycle stations around the property as well as a comprehensive waste management program.
• All plates, forks, knives, spoons, and napkins used in the concessions will be made from recycled materials.
• We will be providing organic t-shirts to all kids that attend Kids Day.
• The book: The Down-To-Earth Guide to Global Warming (see below) will be donated to the libraries of the schools that participate in Kids Day and - while suppplies last- will be distributed to partcicpants of Family Night.

Ten Green Tips

1. Recycle your junk mail and help save over $370 million in landfill dumping fees each year
2. Install a rain sensor on your water sprinkler and lower your water bill by 30%
3. Use e-tickets when purchasing air travel and help save 50,000 trees each year
4. Shorten your shower by just two minutes and save over 10 gallons of water
5. Purchase a reusable water bottle and help reduce the 60 million plastic water bottles that are dumped in landfills each day
6. Reduce your paper napkin usage by one per day and help save over one billion pounds of napkins from filling landfills each year
7. Request automatic deposit from your employer and help to reduce the $65 billion that Americans spend on fuel to drive to the bank to deposit paychecks
8. Replace five light bulbs at your home with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs and help keep up to one trillion pounds of greenhouse gases out of the air
9. Recycle or stop delivery of phone books and help change the fact that 10% of all waste at dump sites are old phone books
10. Print all copies on double-sided paper and help save 130 billion pieces of paper each year

The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming
A comprehensive resource to help young readers (ages 8 and up) understand the science of global warming and how we can work together to stop it. Written by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon. Available at amazon and all major book sellers. Learn more...

Act Green!

According to a recent Scholastic News online poll, kids ranked the environment as one of their top issues in the upcoming presidential elections. Now, Scholastic launches ACT GREEN! at www.scholastic.com/actgreen, a fun, educational website designed to motivate and empower kids to take action in school, at home and in their community to preserve the environment. This multi-media website provides kids, parents and teachers with customized green plans, expert tips, inspiring green short films provided by Live Earth, and a "Greenroom" to share ideas with other kids.