NFL Green Plans Environmental Efforts Around Super Bowl

NFL Green, the league's environmental wing, is trying to "use the Super Bowl's platform to encourage sustainability" with "several environmental initiatives ... organized around" the event, scheduled for Feb. 7 in Tampa, according to Zachary Sampson of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. These have included "building up a sand dune, planting trees and cleaning out parks around Tampa Bay." Another initiative had veterans place "corals, a bit bigger than a softball, in an area where disease has devastated Florida's reefs," and the plantings "took the shape of a football field." The coral project is a "continuation of work started for the 2020 Super Bowl in Miami." Some of the corals "come from the Florida Aquarium." Under the NFL Green umbrella this year, people have "loaded sand into a dune at Picnic Island Park and planted a small pollinator garden for bees and butterflies at Veterans Memorial Park in Tampa" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 11/11).