Amazon to name Seattle sports venue 'Climate Pledge Arena'

The Hill ^ | - 06/25/20 03:09 PM EDT | By John Bowden

[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.

[RetiredArmy]

Seattle Homos is probably better.

[Stravinsky]

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

[NormsRevenge]

Why not Greta’s Grotto?

These NW libs sure know how to make snowflakes cry.

[dfwgator]

Seattle Antifas will be the name of the expansion NHL franchise. Half sarcasm.

That's the soccer team.

[Rummyfan]

Climate Pledge?! It sounds like a new cleaning product.

[Karma_Sherab]

Liberalism IS a MENTAL DISEASE.........................

will entertainment in heaven be watching libs get bitch slapped for all eternity?

[Red Badger]

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

[dfwgator]

Climate Pledge?! It sounds like a new cleaning product.

It's a dessert topping!

[rfp1234]

Not satire? Holy torpedo...

[ChessExpert]

:}

[dwg2]

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

[Tax-chick]

This is from the Babylon Bee, right?

[DoubleNickle]

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

[Tax-chick]

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

[El Cid]

I love The Babylon Bee. They almost got me on this one.

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

[william clark]

I was expecting the Seattle Snowflakes

[EEGator]

Are you sure?...

Just kidding.

[Mozilla]

Seattle don’t deserve NHL.

[themidnightskulker]

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

[V_TWIN]

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