Vancouver, BC – Canucks Sports and Entertainment (CSE) and Rogers Arena has been awarded with the Environmental Innovator of the Year in the NHL category as part of the 2016 Green Sports Alliance Game Changer Awards. The awards program recognizes leading teams, venues, events, and universities for their excellence in advancing the green sports movement.
As a live events facility, Rogers Arena has a dynamic, complex footprint of consumption and energy use. CSE constantly looks at ways to build upon greening initiatives and implement new programs and innovations to reduce its ecological footprint. Some of CSE’s greening initiatives include the introduction of an automated Energy Optimization System (part of a partnership with Shift Energy), a focus on local products, ownership of sustainable farming of salmon and sable fish and a goal of shooting for zero waste.