In 2019 and forward the Seattle Sounders will be carbon neutral. This effort involves initiatives that includes reducing the organization’s impact as well as carbon offsets. Sounders are calculating their impact via Sustainable Business Consulting and purchasing offsets through the Evergreen Carbon Capture (ECC) program of Forterra, per the press release. The formal launch event is a tree planting ceremony with Brian Schmetzer on February 24.
For a team that travels around the United States and Canada for its matches from the far corner of the contiguous states the carbon offsets will be significant, but they aren’t stopping there.