Posted on 11/19/2007 3:05:09 PM

Thursday's traditional Thanksgiving Day football game in Detroit will be the first carbon-neutral contest in National Football League history.

Ford Field and the Detroit Lions announced Monday that they will offset greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions for the Lions' 68th annual Turkey Day game.

The organizations will purchase offsets through Detroit-based Carbon Credit Environmental Services.

The calculations for this event included all of the CO2 emissions for the energy usage from electricity, gas and water used at Ford Field, along with the emissions emitted from the travel of the fans (automotive, air) and the opposing team.

Included will be credits sufficient to offset nearly 1.9 million pounds of greenhouse gases, including removing CO2 emissions from 28,260 cars for one-day travel to the event, from one jumbo jet full of visiting fans, and from more than 255,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity use for the event.

CCES has planted 150,000 trees as a carbon sink. This means that each tree planted will absorb the GHG, CO2 emissions and clean the air in our global environment.

Other programs of CCES include solar power, wind energy and methane recovery.

CCES is based in Detroit's TechTown business and technology research park at 440 Burroughs.

More at www.getcarboncreditco2.com.

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