Has Autumn come early to Britain? - Telegraph

With purple blooms of heather on the hills, crops of berries in the hedgerows and huge numbers of fungi fruiting around the country, the British countryside looks to have entered Autumn a month earlier than normal.

The nation's first CO2-phobic football season

Environmental history will be made today at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville.

The 85,000 fans on hand for the University of Florida's 2008 debut against Hawaii also will be witnessing the kickoff of what the school calls the first collegiate carbon-neutral football season.

All seven Gator home games are intended to be carbon-neutral this season. That means about 2,000 tons of carbon produced by fans, players and coaches who travel by car, plane, RV, bus and truck - along with the carbon from guests flipping light switches and flushing toilets in nearly 4,000 hotel rooms and the carbon created by lighting the scoreboard, popping the popcorn and juicing the television cameras - will be offset by activities that reduce a comparable amount of greenhouse gases.

Despite the skeptics, university officials and Gov. Charlie Crist applaud the effort. Crist saluted it last month in his opening remarks at his Summit on Global Climate Change in Miami.
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A season of carbon-neutral collegiate football is the brainchild of 27-year-old Jacob Cravey. Although the ink is barely dry on Cravey's environmental business degree, he has created a nonprofit group, Earth Givers, to oversee the program.