West Virginia Football Uniforms To Honor Coal, Fallen Miners : TreeHugger

In an attempt to honor the 29 coal miners who tragically died last year at the Upper Big Branch coal mine, the West Virginia University Mountaineers have teamed up with Nike to create new football uniforms that have the mark of coal. The uniforms are white, but have coal dust on the pants and shoulders. The yellow strip on the hemet is said to represent a miner's headlamp. In the photo featuring the new uniform a player appears to be emerging from a strip mine, leaving behind a desolate landscape.

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With an environmentally-friendly Obama administration coming to power, a new green business coalition — led by Nike, (NKE) Starbucks,(SBUX) Levi Strauss, Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and Timberland (TBL) — is calling for stronger policies to slash global warming and to create a clean-energy economy.