1.0 link 165858 <![CDATA[South Africa Sets Green Goals for World Cup]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-gartner/south-africa-sets-green-g_b_165858.html It's a stretch of the imagination that any large international event could be good for the environment, but South Africa is working to put the maximum green sheen on the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Events that require millions of miles of transit will create substantial carbon footprints, but the "green ante" keeps getting raised. Live Earth stressed recycling and riding mass transit, China did its best to clean up Beijing before and after the 2008 Olympics, and even...

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