The VC Green Program was brought about through discussions with our friends at the Ultimate Players Association about how the events that we sponsor could be more green. The program launched at the 2007 UPA Club Championships by bringing recycling to the beautiful polo club fields for the first time. We also introduced the VC Green Cup, a reusable plastic cup that was given to players and required to get free beer throughout the event. It was a hit. The cup alone helped to reduce the amount of waste and clean up time considerably.

We are excited to work on new green initiatives with our community. If you have an idea that you think that VC can help with, please let us know.

Like VC's new black website? So does the environment. Inspired by Blackle, a website created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search and saves energy because the screen is predominantly black.

"Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.