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Amazon to name Seattle sports venue 'Climate Pledge Arena'
The Hill ^ | - 06/25/20 03:09 PM EDT | By John Bowden

Posted on 06/25/2020 12:57:27 PM PDT by Red Badger

Amazon has purchased the naming rights to Seattle's KeyArena, which will now be known as Climate Pledge Arena.

The arena, which is currently under redevelopment, is set to be the home of an unnamed Seattle-based NHL team which is planning to join the league for the 2021-2022 season.

Amazon's announcement on Instagram highlighted the company's commitment to sustainability: it plans for the arena to produce zero waste and heavily reduce its current use of plastics, and will also be powered by renewable energy as it seeks to eliminate its carbon footprint.

"It will be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world, generate zero waste from operations and events, and use reclaimed rainwater in the ice system to create the greenest ice in the NHL," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in the Instagram post.

Tod Leiweike, CEO of NHL Seattle, told The Seattle Times that his organization was excited for the chance to feature sustainability in the arena, which he said was a goal of the team before Amazon's investment.

“I never dreamed that we would have this type of platform,” he told the Times.


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To: ConservativeStatement

Seattle Homos is probably better.


41 posted on 06/25/2020 1:16:51 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends at FR - Are you prepared to meet the LORD??? Do you KNOW Him? Do so today!)
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To: Red Badger

No doubt it will stop same-day delivery and selling cheap plastic crap, too, right? Oh...


42 posted on 06/25/2020 1:18:27 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: Red Badger

Why not Greta’s Grotto?

These NW libs sure know how to make snowflakes cry.


43 posted on 06/25/2020 1:19:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Seattle Antifas will be the name of the expansion NHL franchise. Half sarcasm.

That's the soccer team.

44 posted on 06/25/2020 1:19:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger
Climate Pledge?! It sounds like a new cleaning product.
45 posted on 06/25/2020 1:22:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Red Badger
Liberalism IS a MENTAL DISEASE.........................

will entertainment in heaven be watching libs get bitch slapped for all eternity?
46 posted on 06/25/2020 1:22:33 PM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: Rummyfan

Smells Lemony Fresh!.................


47 posted on 06/25/2020 1:22:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: Rummyfan
Climate Pledge?! It sounds like a new cleaning product.

It's a dessert topping!

48 posted on 06/25/2020 1:23:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Not satire? Holy torpedo...


49 posted on 06/25/2020 1:23:40 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

:}


50 posted on 06/25/2020 1:23:45 PM PDT by ChessExpert (NAFTA - Not A Free Trade Agreement)
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To: Red Badger

I for one do not want to see green ice. Regular ice will do.


51 posted on 06/25/2020 1:25:10 PM PDT by dwg2
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To: Red Badger

This is from the Babylon Bee, right?


52 posted on 06/25/2020 1:33:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Having a good memory means you never have to think of anything original to say.)
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To: Tax-chick

Nope — here’s the link to Bezo’s twitter page with the story.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3gnA5H-K_/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading


53 posted on 06/25/2020 1:36:15 PM PDT by DoubleNickle
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To: DoubleNickle

Sigh. They really have no sense of the absurd, have they?


54 posted on 06/25/2020 1:39:20 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Having a good memory means you never have to think of anything original to say.)
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To: Texas Eagle
I love The Babylon Bee. They almost got me on this one.

Har-har. You made me go back and look.

55 posted on 06/25/2020 1:39:50 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: FewsOrange

I was expecting the Seattle Snowflakes


56 posted on 06/25/2020 1:49:00 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: V_TWIN
Are you sure?...

Just kidding.


57 posted on 06/25/2020 1:49:14 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: FewsOrange

Seattle don’t deserve NHL.


58 posted on 06/25/2020 1:55:43 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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To: dfwgator

Audio only.
I guess NBC does not want anyone to remember how funny the show used to be.

New Shimmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPO8PqHGWFU


59 posted on 06/25/2020 1:57:20 PM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: EEGator

I liked Youngblood. Rob Lowe as a tough guy however....was certainly a bit of a stretch to be sure. Reg Dunlop has chunks of guys like him in his stool. Lol


60 posted on 06/25/2020 2:05:08 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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